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The Glory Tree

Chamber Works by Cheryl Frances-Hoad

Nicholas Daniel (oboe, cor anglais), Nadia Wijzenbeek (violin), Ylvali Zilliacus (viola), Marie Macleod (cello), Alasdair Beatson (piano), Natalia Lomeiko (violin), Leonid Gorokhov (solo cello), Catriona Scott (clarinet), Natalie Raybould (soprano)

Ensemble na Mara, Lenvai String Trio, Instrumentalists...

Frances-Hoad's allegiances are to mainstream modernism, rather than the various popular post-modernist 'isms'. Her compositions may tend towards the sternly ascetic, but they are full of feeling... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 31st May 2011
Catalogue No: CHRCD021
Label: Champs Hill Records
Length: 76 minutes

BBC Music Magazine

October 2011

Chamber Choice

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Frances-Hoad: Memoria

Work length17:23

$3.00

$4.20

Nicholas Daniel, Nadia Wijzenbeek, Ylvali Zilliacus, Marie Macleod, Alasdair Beatson

I. Prelude

Track length8:58

$1.50

$2.10

II. Fugue

Track length8:25

$1.50

$2.10

Frances-Hoad: My Fleeting Angel

Work length9:02

$3.00

$4.20

Ensemble Na Mara, Tom Hankey, Oliver Coates, Alasdair Beatson

I. Larghetto

Track length1:57

$1.00

$1.40

II. Allegro spiritoso e scherzando

Track length4:18

$1.00

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III. Allegretto eleganza

Track length2:47

$1.00

$1.40

Frances-Hoad: The Snow Woman

Work length7:02

$3.00

$4.20

Natalia Lomeiko

I. Allegro moderato

Track length1:59

$1.00

$1.40

II. Adagietto

Track length2:26

$1.00

$1.40

III. Allegro vivace

Track length2:37

$1.00

$1.40

Frances-Hoad: The Ogre Lover

Work length8:19

$7.00

$9.80

Lendvai String Trio

I. Allegro vivace e ritmico

Track length0:58

$1.00

$1.40

II. Agitato

Track length0:40

$1.00

$1.40

III. Scherzando e eleganza

Track length1:43

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IV. Adagietto

Track length1:26

$1.00

$1.40

V. Andante

Track length1:09

$1.00

$1.40

VI. Allegro vivace

Track length1:35

$1.00

$1.40

VII. Coda (Andantino rubato)

Track length0:48

$1.00

$1.40

Frances-Hoad: Invocation

Work length4:08

$1.00

$1.40

Leonid Gorokhov, Michael Petrov, Steffan Morris, Irene Enzlin, Sebastian Kolin, Andrew Power, Rosie Stoner, Rodrigo Moro Martín

Frances-Hoad: Bouleumata

Work length3:26

$1.00

$1.40

Catriana Scott

Frances-Hoad: Melancholia

Work length13:34

$4.00

$5.60

London Mozart Trio

Theme (Largo trascinando)

Track length3:05

$1.00

$1.40

Variation I. Più mosso

Track length2:18

$1.00

$1.40

Variation II. Meno mosso

Track length3:00

$1.00

$1.40

Variation III. L'istesso tempo

Track length5:11

$1.00

$1.40

Frances-Hoad: The Glory Tree

Work length13:53

$5.00

$7.00

Natalie Raybould, Kreisler Ensembe
Matilda Hofman

I. "Behold! I shall tell the choicest of visions"

Track length3:51

$1.00

$1.40

II. "Hail is the whitest of grains"

Track length1:00

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$1.40

III. "I have often suffered on the weary seas"

Track length3:28

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$1.40

IV. "The sun is always a source of hope"

Track length1:43

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$1.40

V. "What have you done, bloodstained one?"

Track length3:51

$1.00

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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, Cherylʼs 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.

Champs Hill Records is delighted to present this collection of Cherylʼs chamber music, performed in many cases by the musicians who commissioned and gave the premiere performances of the works.

“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.

The songs of the title work on this disc - 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 Lenvai String Trio, the Kriesler Ensemble, Leonid Gorokhov (ʻcello), the London Mozart Trio, Ensemble na Mara, and others.

The disc is packed with 77mins of music, all newly recorded in the Music Room at Champs Hill.

Artists

Ensemble na Mara, Lenvai String Trio, Instrumentalists from the Yehudi Menuhin School, London Mozart Trio, Kreisler Ensemble, Matilda Hofman

Reviews

October 2011

Frances-Hoad's allegiances are to mainstream modernism, rather than the various popular post-modernist 'isms'. Her compositions may tend towards the sternly ascetic, but they are full of feeling and memorable gestures. All the performers play with an admirable combination of passion, precision and attention to tone production

26th June 2011

Frances-Hoad (b1980) is a remarkable talent. This retrospective of her chamber works is like a declaration of faith in the eternal verities of composition. As with a composer she recalls, Nicholas Maw, traditional skilfulness does not preclude originality and, indeed, audacity.

23rd June 2011

There's something engagingly freewheeling about Frances-Hoad's works, the feeling that she is quite unselfconscious about the music she writes and oblivious to how others might categorise it...All of them reveal Frances-Hoad's ability to vary pace and mood just as she requires...Perhaps the most striking piece of all, though, is Invocation...its subterranean rumblings underpin a long-limbed, achingly expressive melodic line.

25th August 2011

The care lavished on this CD of chamber works by the 31-year-old Cheryl Frances-Hoad is patent. An impressive array of musicians including oboist Nicholas Daniel play their hearts out for her. Frances-Hoad’s skill at creating a rich texture from modest chamber forces is astonishing.

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