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Presteigne Premieres: New Music for String Orchestra

Amy Dickson (saxophone), Prestiegne Festival Orchestra, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Katherine Baker, Suzy Willison-Kawalec, Presteigne Festival Orchestra, George Vass

Presteigne Premieres: New Music for String Orchestra
The playing of the Presteigne Festival Orchestra lacks nothing in commitment, directed by Vass with unfussy attention to detail.

Gramophone Magazine, October 2021

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Presteigne Premieres: New Music for String Orchestra

Amy Dickson (saxophone), Prestiegne Festival Orchestra, Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, Katherine Baker, Suzy Willison-Kawalec, Presteigne Festival Orchestra, George Vass

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The playing of the Presteigne Festival Orchestra lacks nothing in commitment, directed by Vass with unfussy attention to detail.

Gramophone Magazine, October 2021

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Founded in 1982 in the former county town of Radnorshire, the Presteigne Festival has become a significant part of the Welsh cultural calendar and is Internationally renowned for its commissioning of new work, support of living composers and with a long tradition for the encouragement of young artists. The festival’s orchestra, conducted by Artistic Director George Vass, explores a selection of the many new works premiered by the festival in this volume of recent music for string orchestra.

  • Release date: 28th May 2021
  • Label: Resonus Classics
  • Catalogue number: RES10279
  • Length: 80 minutes

Contents and tracklist

Hyde, T: Variations on 'Lovely Joan': I. Prelude – Tema – Tema elaborata
Work length2:26
Matthews, D: Variations on 'Lovely Joan': II. Variation I
Work length1:57
Williams, Adrian: Variations on 'Lovely Joan': III. Variation II
Work length2:59
Berkeley, M: Variations on 'Lovely Joan': IV. Variation III
Work length3:47
Gunning: Variations on 'Lovely Joan': V. Variation IV
Work length4:27
Watkins, H: Variations on 'Lovely Joan': VI. Variation V
Work length1:15
Beamish: Variations on 'Lovely Joan': VII. Variation VI
Work length2:23
Taylor, M: Variations on 'Lovely Joan': VIII. Variation VII
Work length3:56
Butler, M: Concerto for Soprano Saxophone and Strings
Work length20:23
I. Lively, but heavy and grounded
Track length7:12
II. Cantilena
Track length8:07
III. Presto
Track length5:04
Wood, Hugh: Beginnings (Three Early Songs). Op. 54
Work length3:33
  • Rebecca Afonwy-Jones
  • Presteigne Festival Orchestra
  • George Vass
I. Tom O'Bedlam's Song
Track length3:33
Hugh Wood, Dylan Thomas: Beginnings (Three Early Songs), Op. 54: II. Why East Wind Chills
Work length5:38
  • Rebecca Afonwy-Jones
  • Presteigne Festival Orchestra
  • George Vass
II. Why East Wind Chills
Track length5:38
Hugh Wood, W.H. Auden: Beginnings (Three Early Songs), Op. 54: III. O Unicorn Among The Cedars
Work length5:35
  • Rebecca Afonwy-Jones
  • Presteigne Festival Orchestra
  • George Vass
III. O Unicorn Among The Cedars
Track length5:35
Duddell: Mnemonic
Work length12:25
This work is only available as an album download.
  • Katherine Baker, Suzy Willison-Kawalec
  • Presteigne Festival Orchestra
  • George Vass
Wood, Hugh: Divertimento, Op. 51
Work length9:43
I. Maestoso – Andante, calmo ma con moto
Track length3:45
II. Adagietto
Track length3:11
III. Allegro molto, feroce
Track length2:47

Awards and reviews

October 2021

The playing of the Presteigne Festival Orchestra lacks nothing in commitment, directed by Vass with unfussy attention to detail.

6th June 2021

Beginnings, his late reworking of three early songs, exquisitely handled by the mezzo Rebecca Afonwy-Jones, and Divertimento. There are striking essays by Martin Butler and Joe Duddell, and a most felicitous set of variations on the folk song Lovely Joan.
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