Bright/ Ward/ Peebles - Piano ConcertosSOMM Recordings continues it's championing of British music with revelatory performances of music for piano and orchestra by Dora Bright and Ruth Gipps. Separated by six decades Bright born in 1862, Gipps in 1921 both women shared a prodigious talent as pianists before turning to composition. Three works Bright's A minor Piano Concerto and Variations for Piano and Orchestra and Gipps' Ambarvalia receive first recordings alongside Gipps' G minor Piano

Whitacre's fluid lines and blossoming harmonies give his music it's own highly personal and irresistible magic

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five years after his first book of sonatas

Ball plays Lucille Carter and Arnaz plays her daughter Kim

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Recorded on St Lawrence Island by Miriam C