SOMM Recordings is pleased to release their second recording with the Chamber Ensemble of London, a virtuoso group of hand-picked string players directed by violinist Peter Fisher, whom The Timescounts amongst “a handful of the world’s finest musicians.” Following the ensemble’s 2022 SOMM release, Eclogue – British Chamber Music, which Gramophone praised for it’s “unfailingly sympathetic music-making throughout,” this new release is Quiet Summer Evening – British Concertante Music, drawing on the rich tradition of light classical music. The programme opens with Rhapsody for Clarinet & Strings by Geoffrey Bush. He was initially taught by John Ireland and, on his advice, studied composition and classics at Balliol College, Oxford emerging with degrees in both subjects in 1946.Bush’s hauntingly beautiful rhapsody features the sought-after clarinettist Peter Cigleris, whose growing discography includes three previous releases with SOMM. He is also the sol