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The Frostbound Wood
Various composers

Tim Travers-Brown

The Frostbound Wood

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212016121
Catnr: SIGCD 161
Release date: 01 August 2009
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212016121
Catalogue number
SIGCD 161
Release date
01 August 2009
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Artist(s)
Composer(s)
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About the album

The 20th Century composers Peter Warlock, Herbert Howells, Michael Howard and Betty Roe were all inspired by the music of their country, both in the words they set in song and the music they composed. Tim Travers Brown, accompanied by Jeremy Filsell, explore the counter-tenor's role in British songwriting. Whilst Roe and Howard wrote specifically with the counter-tenor voice in mind, Warlock and Howells did not, providing the counter-tenor with a fantastic opportunity to highlight some of their best works in a new perspective.

This programme forms a delicate balance between modern styles and historical influences featuring the songs 'My Little Sweet Darling' and 'The Night' by Peter Warlock, 'The Painted Rose' by Michael Howard, 'When the Dew is Falling' by Herbert Howells and 'Noble Numbers' by Betty Roe.

Artist(s)

Tim Travers-Brown (countertenor)

Tim Travers-Brown studied at the Royal Academy of Music and is now a Professor of Vocal Studies at Trinity College of Music, London. He works with many of the foremost early music groups, orchestras and conductors. His opera engagements include chorus in Lorin Maazel’s 1984 and the Dido & Aeneas/Acis & Galatea double bill production at the Royal Opera House. He has sung title roles in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and King Arthur. He sang Didymus (Theodora) at the Dartington International Summer School and The Fairy Queen for Christopher Hogwood. He has appeared regularly with The Parley of Instruments under Peter Holman, and performs frequently with the Monteverdi Choir, the Gabrieli Consort and Tenebrae. Other engagements...
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Tim Travers-Brown studied at the Royal Academy of Music and is now a Professor of Vocal Studies at Trinity College of Music, London. He works with many of the foremost early music groups, orchestras and conductors. His opera engagements include chorus in Lorin Maazel’s 1984 and the Dido & Aeneas/Acis & Galatea double bill production at the Royal Opera House. He has sung title roles in Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, and Purcell’s The Fairy Queen and King Arthur. He sang Didymus (Theodora) at the Dartington International Summer School and The Fairy Queen for Christopher Hogwood. He has appeared regularly with The Parley of Instruments under Peter Holman, and performs frequently with the Monteverdi Choir, the Gabrieli Consort and Tenebrae. Other engagements include Bach’s Christmas Oratorio for Nicholas Kraemer, Bach’s St. John Passion for Harry Christophers, Handel’s Judas Maccabeus for Laurence Cummings, John Blow’s Ode on the Death of Henry Purcell with Michael Chance, Handel’s Dixit Dominus with the English Concert, and Purcell’s Ode for St. Cecilia for Paul McCreesh. Chamber music includes a recital of 20th Century English music in Oslo with pianist Jonathan Beatty, a Scottish Tour of cantatas by Bach, Buxtehude and Beamish with ‘The Dunedin Consort’, a recital with lutenist Jacob Heringman for BBC Radio 3, and a recital at the Handel House Museum, London. His recordings include two discs with the Parley of Instruments for Hyperion, ‘Handel and his Italian contemporaries’ with the Musicke Companye for Intim Musik, a disc of Bach Cantatas with Bach Collegium Japan for BIS, ‘Mother and Child’ with Tenebrae for Signum, a disc of music for ‘Vespers’ by the 18th Century Spanish composer, José de Nebra with La Grand Chappelle for Lauda Musica and ‘Pilgrimage to Santiago’ with The Monteverdi Choir for Soli Deo Gloria.

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Jeremy Filsell (piano)

Jeremy Filsell enjoys a concert career as one of only a few virtuoso performers on both the Piano and the Organ. He has performed as a solo pianist in Russia, the USA and throughout the UK and has appeared regularly at St John’s Smith Square and the Conway and Wigmore Halls in London. His Concerto repertoire encompasses Mozart and Beethoven through to Rachmaninov (2nd and 3rd Concertos), Shostakovich and John Ireland and in recent years, he has recorded the solo piano music of Carl Johann Eschmann, Eugene Goossens and the two Sonatas of Liszt’s pupil Julius Reubke. In the piano music of Herbert Howells and Bernard Stevens, Classic CD magazine commented that “he does not attract for his virtuosity but...
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Jeremy Filsell enjoys a concert career as one of only a few virtuoso performers on both the Piano and the Organ. He has performed as a solo pianist in Russia, the USA and throughout the UK and has appeared regularly at St John’s Smith Square and the Conway and Wigmore Halls in London. His Concerto repertoire encompasses Mozart and Beethoven through to Rachmaninov (2nd and 3rd Concertos), Shostakovich and John Ireland and in recent years, he has recorded the solo piano music of Carl Johann Eschmann, Eugene Goossens and the two Sonatas of Liszt’s pupil Julius Reubke. In the piano music of Herbert Howells and Bernard Stevens, Classic CD magazine commented that “he does not attract for his virtuosity but for his ability to make the music unfold with irresistible logic and clarity: music-making of the highest calibre.” He is pianist with the London-based Burghersh Piano Trio and performs regularly with Oliver Lewis (Violin), with whom he has recorded discs of Elgar, Ireland, Ferguson and Goossens for Guild. With Michael Bundy (Baritone), two discs of Mélodies by Widor, Vierne and Dupré are due for release by Naxos.
Jeremy Filsell has recorded for BBC Radio 3, USA and Scandinavian radio networks in solo and concerto roles as both a pianist and organist and, as an organist specifically, has a discography comprising over 20 solo recordings for labels Signum, Guild, Gamut, Herald and ASV. Gramophone magazine, writing on the series of 12 CDs comprising the premiere recordings of Marcel Dupré’s complete organ works for Guild in 2000, praised his performance as “one of the greatest achievements in organ recording…Filsell’s astonishing interpretative and technical skills make for compulsive listening … truly distinguished, compelling and unquestionably authoritative performances; Filsell has phenomenal technique.” In 2005, Signum released a 3-disc set on the famous 1890 Cavaillé-Coll organ in St. Ouen Rouen of the complete organ symphonies of Louis Vierne. These were BBC Radio 3’s Disc of the Week in September of that year.
Jeremy studied as a music scholar at Oxford University, then as a post-graduate pianist under David Parkhouse and Hilary McNamara at the Royal College of Music before completing a PhD at Birmingham Conservatoire researching aesthetic and interpretative issues in the organ music of Marcel Dupré. Over the course of his career, he has taught piano, organ and academic studies at Cranleigh, Eton and the London Oratory School, given masterclasses at universities and summer schools in both the UK and USA, served twice on international competition juries and, until recently, held lectureships at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and London’s Royal Academy of Music. He lives currently in the USA and is Principal Organist at the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C., one of the largest churches in the world and the flagship Catholic Church in North America.

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01.
The Frostbound Wood -: My Little Sweet Darling
01:59
(Peter Warlock) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
02.
The Frostbound Wood -: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
01:35
(Peter Warlock) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
03.
The Frostbound Wood -: And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus?
01:59
(Peter Warlock) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
04.
The Frostbound Wood -: Sleep
02:10
(Peter Warlock) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
05.
The Frostbound Wood -: The Droll Lover
00:57
(Peter Warlock) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
06.
The Frostbound Wood -: Mourn No More
01:39
(Peter Warlock) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
07.
The Frostbound Wood -: My Own Country
02:16
(Peter Warlock) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
08.
The Painted Rose -: The Painted Rose
02:16
(Michael Howard) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
09.
The Painted Rose -: So By My Singing Am I Comforted
02:57
(Michael Howard) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
10.
The Painted Rose -: Before Sleep
01:03
(Michael Howard) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
11.
The Painted Rose -: David's Lament for Johnathan
02:33
(Michael Howard) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
12.
Three Middle English Songs -: A Hymn to the Virgin
02:24
(Michael Howard) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
13.
Three Middle English Songs -: May in the Grenewode
01:31
(Michael Howard) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
14.
Three Middle English Songs -: This Worldes Joie
02:45
(Michael Howard) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
15.
Mrs. MacQueen
01:44
(Herbert Howells) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
16.
When the Dew is Falling
03:36
(Herbert Howells) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
17.
Full Moon
02:59
(Herbert Howells) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
18.
Noble Numbers -: To His Saviour, a Child; a Present, by a Child
01:35
(Betty Roe) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
19.
Noble Numbers -: To God; An anthem sung before the King in the chapel at Whitehall
02:43
(Betty Roe) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
20.
Noble Numbers -: To God
00:53
(Betty Roe) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
21.
Noble Numbers -: To His Angrie God
01:41
(Betty Roe) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
22.
Noble Numbers -: To His Sweet Saviour
03:55
(Betty Roe) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
23.
My Gostly Fader
01:57
(Peter Warlock) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
24.
The Frostbound Wood
02:53
(Peter Warlock) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
25.
Bethlehem Down
04:07
(Peter Warlock) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
26.
The Night
02:05
(Peter Warlock) Tim Travers-Brown, Jeremy Filsell
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