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Roderick Williams, Clare Hammond, Fidelio Trio, St Paul's Sinfonia - Robert Saxton: Portrait (2022) [Hi-Res]

Roderick Williams, Clare Hammond, Fidelio Trio, St Paul's Sinfonia - Robert Saxton: Portrait (2022) [Hi-Res]
  • Title: Robert Saxton: Portrait
  • Year Of Release: 2022
  • Label: Metier
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks) / flac 24bits - 44.1kHz +Booklet
  • Total Time: 01:09:37
  • Total Size: 326 / 633 mb
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Tracklist

01. A Hymn to the Thames: I. —
02. A Hymn to the Thames: II. —
03. A Hymn to the Thames: III. —
04. A Hymn to the Thames: IV. —
05. Fantasy Pieces: I. —
06. Fantasy Pieces: II. —
07. Fantasy Pieces: III. —
08. Fantasy Pieces: IV. —
09. Fantasy Pieces: V. —
10. Fantasy Pieces: VI. —
11. Time and the Seasons: I. Winter, Still Winter
12. Time and the Seasons: II. Spring
13. Time and the Seasons: III. Time's Ellipse
14. Time and the Seasons: IV. Summer Seascape
15. Time and the Seasons: V. Summer Psalm
16. Time and the Seasons: VI. Autumn
17. Time and the Seasons: VII. The Beach in Winter. Scratby
18. Suite for Violin & Piano (2019): I. Awakening
19. Suite for Violin & Piano (2019): II. Horizon
20. Suite for Violin & Piano (2019): III. Jacob and the Angel
21. Suite for Violin & Piano (2019): IV. Bells of Memory
22. Suite for Violin & Piano (2019): V. Quest

Orchestral, vocal and chamber works: A Hymn to the Thames, Fantasy Pieces, Suite for Violin and Piano and ‘Time and The Seasons’, provide a varied presentation of one of England’s most respected composers. Artists on this album include Roderick Williams (baritone), James Turnbull (oboe), Madeleine Mitchell (violin), Clare Hammond & Andrew West (pianos), The Fidelio Trio, and St Paul’s Sinfonia conducted by Andrew Morley.

The four works on the recording were written between 2013 and 2019. They represent a continuing journey addressing a modal/harmonic goal-orientated narrative. The earliest, Time and the Seasons, for baritone and piano, commissioned by the Oxford Lieder Festival for Roderick Williams and Andrew West, is a song cycle to Saxton’s own texts relating to the Norfolk coast where he spent much of his childhood and, as the title implies, is both cyclic and progressive. Suite for violin and piano, first performed at the 2019 Three Choirs Festival by Madeleine Mitchell and Clare Hammond, charts a voyage across its five movements leading to a tentatively positive conclusion. Fantasy Pieces, commissioned by the Fidelio Trio, while not using material of Robert Schumann, has his Op. 88 as character pieces in mind, regarding both genre and variety of manner. A Hymn to the Thames for solo oboe and chamber orchestra was commissioned by James Turnbull, the St Paul’s Sinfonia and its Music Director Andrew Morley and, during the course of its four linked movements, sets the soloist as both wanderer and river spirit in conjunction with the ‘river’ of the orchestra from source to sea.

James Turnbull, oboe
Roderick Williams, baritone
Madeleine Mitchell, violin
Andrew West, piano
Clare Hammond, piano
Fidelio Trio, St. Paul's Sinfonia
Andrew Morley, conductor




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