Songs for Strings: Arrangements by Donald Fraser
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Label: Avie
Cat No: AV2391
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Orchestral
Release Date: 7th September 2018
Contents
Works
Time stands stillA Child Asleep (arr. Donald Fraser)
Pleading, op.48 no.1 (arr. Donald Fraser)
Queen Mary's Lute Song (arr. Donald Fraser)
Lord Lovat's Lament
Epilogue for Strings
The Queen's Hall (after an improvisation by Edward Elgar)
Nuages gris (Trube Wolken), S199 (arr. Donald Fraser)
Crucifixus (arr. Donald Fraser)
Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris (arr. Donald Fraser)
Fugue in G minor
Ground in C minor
A la maniere de Borodine (arr. Donald Fraser)
Canon (arr. Donald Fraser)
Largo (arr. Donald Fraser)
Artists
English Symphony OrchestraEnglish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Donald FraserWorks
Time stands stillA Child Asleep (arr. Donald Fraser)
Pleading, op.48 no.1 (arr. Donald Fraser)
Queen Mary's Lute Song (arr. Donald Fraser)
Lord Lovat's Lament
Epilogue for Strings
The Queen's Hall (after an improvisation by Edward Elgar)
Nuages gris (Trube Wolken), S199 (arr. Donald Fraser)
Crucifixus (arr. Donald Fraser)
Sonnerie de Sainte Genevieve du Mont de Paris (arr. Donald Fraser)
Fugue in G minor
Ground in C minor
A la maniere de Borodine (arr. Donald Fraser)
Canon (arr. Donald Fraser)
Largo (arr. Donald Fraser)
Artists
English Symphony OrchestraEnglish Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Donald FraserAbout
In the 1990s, Donald Fraser scored a hit with his orchestral arrangement of Marin Marais’ baroque classic The Bells of St. Genevieve which reached the Top 5 of Billboard’s Classical Chart and remains a radio evergreen to this day. Numerous commissions for arrangements followed for musicians such as The King’s Singers, Yehudi Menuhin and the English Chamber Orchestra. In 2016, AVIE released Don’s large-scale orchestration of Edward Elgar’s Piano Quintet and choral version of Sea Pictures, which charted in the Top 10 of the UK Specialist Classical Chart.
Don now returns to the art of arranging smaller scale, classic works by John Dowland, Henry Purcell, Antonio Vivaldi and others, including new versions of his own “Amen” from A Christmas Symphony which was written for and premiered by soprano Jessye Norman, a new re-mix of The Bells of St. Genevieve and orchestrations of four Elgar art songs that evoke the album’s title, Songs for Strings.
“a revelation...a triumph of transcription.” – Classical Music Magazine, Premiere of the Year
“Richly upholstered orchestration.” – Gramophone
“remarkable...beautifully realised...It says a lot for Fraser’s skills as an orchestrator.” – BBC Music Magazine
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