Cheryl Frances-Hoad
Glory Tree
- Type CD
- Label Champs Hill
- UPC 5060212590220
- Catalog number CHRCD 021
- Release date 01 June 2011
About the album
"The Glory Tree had remarkable scoring, stratospheric singing and was performed with shamanic authority, her final scream reverberating through the cloisters."
- Keith Bruce, The Herald
Cheryl Frances-Hoad has a unique and special compositional voice, recently becoming the youngest composer to win two prizes in the same year at the British Composer Awards, in 2010.
Since winning the BBC Young Composer Competition in 1996, at the age of 15, Cheryl's works have garnered high praise and awards from all quarters. Over recent years, she has had numerous notable successes, with commissions including solo, chamber, orchestral and choral works, as well as opera.
The songs of the title work on this album - The Glory Tree - are arresting settings, in original Anglo-Saxon, from The Dream of the Rood and Judith, treated as the utterances of Shamanic ritual. Shamanism also provides the inspiration for the solo violin work The Snow Woman written for, and played here by, Natalia Lomeiko.
These works are typical of the fertile soil for musical invention which Cheryl Frances-Hoad finds in literary inspiration. Stories, poems or literary ideas have provided the spark for many works on this disc, performed by exceptionally talented musicians, including Nicholas Daniel (oboe), the Lendvai String Trio, the Kriesler Ensemble, Leonid Gorokhov (ʻcello), the London Mozart Trio, Ensemble na Mara, and others.
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11Memoria: I. Prelude
08:59 -
12Memoria: II. Fugue
08:25 -
13My Fleeting Angel: I. Larghetto
01:57 -
14My Fleeting Angel: II. Allegro spiritoso e scherzando
04:18 -
15My Fleeting Angel: III. Allegretto eleganza
02:47 -
16The Snow Woman: I. Allegro moderato
01:59 -
17The Snow Woman: II. Adagietto
02:27 -
18The Snow Woman: III. Allegro vivace
02:38 -
19The Ogre Lover: I. Allegro vivace e ritmico
00:58 -
110The Ogre Lover: II. Agitato
00:41 -
111The Ogre Lover: III. Scherzando e eleganza
01:43 -
112The Ogre Lover: IV. Adagietto
01:27 -
113The Ogre Lover: V. Andante
01:09 -
114The Ogre Lover: VI. Allegro vivace
01:35 -
115The Ogre Lover: VII. Coda (Andantino rubato)
00:48 -
116Invocation
04:09 -
117Bouleumata
03:26 -
118Melancholia: Theme (Largo trascinando)
03:06 -
119Melancholia: Variation I. Più mosso
02:18 -
120Melancholia: Variation II. Meno mosso
03:01 -
121Melancholia: Variation III. L'istesso tempo
05:11 -
122The Glory Tree: I. 'Behold! I shall tell the choicest of visions'
03:51 -
123The Glory Tree: II. 'Hail is the whitest of grains'
01:00 -
124The Glory Tree: III. 'I have often suffered on the weary seas'
03:28 -
125The Glory Tree: IV. 'The sun is always a source of hope'
01:44 -
126The Glory Tree: V. 'What have you done, bloodstained one?'
03:51