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From the very first track (Tunder’s ‘Salve mi Jesu’) we encounter the central delight of this recording – the pure, clear countertenor voice of Iestyn Davies. His sense of phrasing and awareness... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 27th Aug 2021
Catalogue No: SIGCD684
Label: Signum
Length: 64 minutes

Gramophone Awards

2022

Shortlisted - Voice & Ensemble

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Tunder: Salve mi Jesu

Work length5:53

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Iestyn Davies, Silas Wollston
Fretwork
Richard Boothby

Scheidt: Canzon super ‘O Nachbar Roland’, SSWV 66

Work length5:57

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Silas Wollston
Fretwork
Richard Boothby

Bach, J C'ph: Ach dass ich Wassers g’nug hätte (Lamento)

Work length7:51

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Iestyn Davies, Silas Wollston
Fretwork
Richard Boothby

Schein: Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 14

Work length6:28

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Silas Wollston
Fretwork
Richard Boothby

I. Paduan

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II. Gagliarda

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III. Courente

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IV. Allemande & Tripla

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Schütz: Geistliche Chor-Music, Op. 11: Auf dem Gebirge, SWV 396

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Iestyn Davies, Silas Wollston, Hugh Cutting
Fretwork
Richard Boothby

Schein: Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 7

Work length6:24

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Silas Wollston
Fretwork
Richard Boothby

I. Paduan

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II. Gagliarda

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III. Courente

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IV. Allemande & Tripla

Track length0:55

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Geist, C: Es war aber an der Stätte

Work length8:36

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Iestyn Davies, Silas Wollston
Fretwork
Richard Boothby

Tunder: An Wasserfluessen Babylon

Work length3:18

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Iestyn Davies, Silas Wollston
Fretwork
Richard Boothby

Scheidt: Canzon super Cantionem Gallicam, SSWV 67

Work length4:51

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Silas Wollston
Fretwork
Richard Boothby

Sances: O dulce nomen Jesu

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Iestyn Davies, Silas Wollston
Fretwork
Richard Boothby

Schein: Christ unser Herr zum Jordan Kam

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Iestyn Davies, Silas Wollston, Hugh Cutting
Fretwork
Richard Boothby

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Countertenor Iestyn Davies and the viol consort Fretwork present a new recording of works for viol consort and voice, drawn from 17th Century Germany, following their critically praised 2019 album of works by Michael Nyman and Henry Purcell.

Featuring performances from organist Silas Wollston and countertenor Hugh Cutting, the recital ranges widely over the 17th Century - from the early years with three curiously similar sounding friends: Schein, Scheidt and Schütz, to the most significant member of the Bach family before Johann Sebastian, Johann Christoph Bach.

From there they travel down the North Sea to the foothills of the Alps, including Buxtehude’s predecessor at the Marienkirche in Lübeck - Franz Tunder (whose daughter Buxtehude he was to marry) - and another north German composer who worked in Copenhagen, Christian Geist.

Giovanni Felice Sances is an outlier here: he was born in Rome but spent the second part of his life working for three successive Emperors in Vienna, where viol playing was still very much in vogue.

In 2021, Fretwork celebrate their 35th Anniversary. In the past three and a half decades they have explored the core repertory of great English consort music, from Taverner to Purcell, and made classic recordings against which others are judged. In addition to this, Fretwork have become known as pioneers of contemporary music for viols, having commissioned over 40 new works.

Iestyn Davies is a British countertenor widely recognised as one of the world’s finest singers, celebrated for the beauty and technical dexterity of his voice and intelligent musicianship. Critical recognition of Iestyn’s work includes two Gramophone Awards, a Grammy Award, a RPS Award for Young Singer of the Year, the Critics’ Circle Award and recently an Olivier Award Nomination. He was awarded the MBE in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List 2017 for services to music.

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October 2021

From the very first track (Tunder’s ‘Salve mi Jesu’) we encounter the central delight of this recording – the pure, clear countertenor voice of Iestyn Davies. His sense of phrasing and awareness of the changing harmonic colours provided by the accompanying instruments are consistent musical attributes.

July/August 2022

The performance by Fretwork is sonorous and quite well integrated. The consort fits well together with excellent intonation and good tempos that are not too slow, nor too fast. Davies’s voice is clear and his diction quite distinct, and his voice blends both with the consort and with his colleague Cutting. In short, this is a lovely disc of music that is not often heard but should be.

31st July 2021

Davies is not only capable of singing about pain and anguish – for contrast, try If (Signum Classics), his other disc with Fretwork – but the purity of his voice, with its rich palette of inflections, and his communication of the text, makes this ideal repertoire for him, and us.

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