Various Artists
A Fantasy Idyll
- Type CD
- Label Champs Hill
- UPC 5060212590053
- Catalog number CHRCD 005
- Release date 01 July 2010
About the album
The third album from new English composer David Bowerman, this record further explores his love of song and his natural affinity for the organ, as well as including chamber works for string and wind instruments.
The chamber works were all recorded in the inspirational surroundings of the Music Room at Champs Hill, where many of the works were written - including several settings of Shakespeare plus other songs, sung by close friend Dame Felicity Lott and rising star mezzo-soprano, Anna Leese. The Fanfare was commissioned for the 900th Anniversary of Chichester Cathedral, and recorded there, with the other three organ Preludes and Improvisations being recorded on the prestigious organ at St. Martin-in-the-Fields, London.
Other performers on this disc include Ittai Shapira (violin) with Jakob Fichert, the Gould Trio, Alice Neary (cello) with Benjamin Frith, and Daniel & Emily Pailthorpe of the London Conchord Ensemble.
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11Fanfare
01:45 -
12Improvisation On Little Cornard
05:35 -
13Spiritual Fantasy
06:04 -
14Two Shakespeare Settings: I Know a Bank
02:15 -
15Two Shakespeare Settings: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
03:03 -
16An Equal Music
02:14 -
17An Island Fantasy
05:39 -
18Promenade
06:52 -
19Chorale Prélude On the Old 100th
03:12 -
110O Sleep, O Gentle Sleep
02:50 -
111Snowflake
02:49 -
112Nocturne
04:36 -
113Remembering Jacqueline
06:16 -
114The Three Seasons Fantasy: Indian Summer
04:45 -
115The Three Seasons Fantasy: Arctic Winter
05:43 -
116The Three Seasons Fantasy: Spring Fantasy
03:50 -
117Improvisation On Guiting Power
05:12