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Alessandro Fisher & Anna Tilbrook – A Gardener’s World (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 58:50 minutes | 570 MB | Genre: Classical
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During the period of lockdown in 2020, tenor Alessandro Fisher and his wife spent many hours in their garden. A heightened awareness of the beauty of nature, the flowers in their garden and the changes to the garden as winter moved to spring, and then to summer formed the basis of this beautifully curated recital.
All the songs are about flowers, the language of flowers, and flowers as a tokens of love. Above all, the album is about the way songs of the many composers on this album reference deep human emotions and the role of flowers in these emotions.
Where words fail, the language of flowers and nature take over. Nature regenerates, life continues, though for some composers, the short- lived glory of flowers is also an allegory for loss, or indeed the transience of romantic love.
This live recording was made by BBC Radio 3 at the Wigmore Hall in London. Alessandro was the recipient of a BBT Fellowship in 2022.
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Alessandro Fisher – Venables and Vaughan Williams: Portraits of a Mind; On Wenlock Edge; Four Hymns (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:00 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Albion
2022 marked the 150th anniversary of Vaughan Williams’ birth. To mark the occasion, the Ralph Vaughan Williams Society commissioned a new work from Ian Venables, one of Britain’s foremost composers and a master of song composition.
Venables has created a song cycle entitled “Portraits of a Mind,” for which he has chosen the same instrumentation (tenor, piano and string quartet) as for Vaughan Williams’ song cycle “On Wenlock Edge.”
The work presents a series of five portraits of Vaughan Williams by setting to music poets associated with him: George Meredith (The Lark Ascending); Ursula Vaughan Williams; Robert Louis Stevenson; Christina Rossetti; and Walt Whitman.
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