Credits:

Iestyn Davies

Description:

Yestin Davis & Fretwork! Singing Nyman and Purcell! Yestyn Davies is a British countertenor widely regarded as one of the world's finest singers, thanks to his beautifully dexterous voice and intelligent musicianship. He has won two Gramophone Awards, a Grammy Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award nomination, and was awarded the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 2017 for his achievements. This new recording by Justin Davis with the British viol consort Fretwork is a stunning combination of contemporary composer Michael Nyman, known for his minimal music and film music, and Henry Purcell, one of the great composers of the English Baroque, who in the 1980s Nyman reinvented English Baroque music and used Purcell's music in the film "Murder in an English Garden. Music After a Wheel, an instrumental piece based on a Purcell song, is a newly commissioned work by Fretwork.The program then includes Nyman & Purcell arrangements by Richard Boothby, a founding member of Fretwork and the Purcell Quartet, and Cyrus Walston, also a member of the Bach Players and In Echo. Combining bold harmonies, wondrous inventiveness, and charming melodies, the program connects music from the 17th century to the 21st century. Tokyo M-Plus

Tracklisting:

1.No Time in Eternity: No. 1. To Music I
2.No Time in Eternity: No. 2. No Time in Eternity
3.No Time in Eternity: No. 3. Fortune
4.No Time in Eternity: No. 4. The Definition of Beauty
5.No Time in Eternity: No. 5. Things Mortal Still Mutable
6.No Time in Eternity: No. 6. The Watch
7.No Time in Eternity: No. 7. To Music II
8.Balancing the Books
9.The Diary of Anne Frank: If
10.The Diary of Anne Frank: Why
11.Music for a while (from Oedipus, King of Thebes, Z. 583)
12.Music after a While
13.Now that the sun hath veiled his light, Z. 193, "An Evening Hymn on a Ground"
14.Self-laudatory Hymn of Inanna and Her Omnipotence
15.O solitude, my sweetest choice, Z. 406