Frisson
Fiona Sweeney, Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble, Shea Lolin
It's the synchronicity in the playing of the Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble that's particularly apparent across the entire collection. In an album named Frisson, you expect lightness and excitement...
Frisson
Fiona Sweeney, Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble, Shea Lolin
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It's the synchronicity in the playing of the Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble that's particularly apparent across the entire collection. In an album named Frisson, you expect lightness and excitement...
About
On 9 January 2026, conductor Shea Lolin presents Frisson, an exciting new album of music for woodwind orchestra and his third recording with the principal woodwind players of the Czech Philharmonic (Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year 2024). Frisson follows the release of the ground-breaking Twisted Skyscape, the first album devoted entirely to new music for woodwind orchestra, and Chromosphere, which focused on contemporary repertoire.
Frisson marks Shea Lolin’s 20-year involvement with the woodwind orchestra and celebrates its evolution from the early eighteenth-century genre of Harmoniemusik – formal ensemble music for pairs of winds – to its modern form. The album features a superb programme of arrangements for woodwind orchestra by Shea Lolin, all originally commissioned by the Bloomsbury Woodwind Ensemble. He expands Franz Krommer’s exquisite Octet – Partita in F major, Op.57 and Richard Strauss’s youthful Serenade, Op.7, creating a broader sonic landscape while maintaining their essence. Also included is Cécile Chaminade’s beloved Concertino, Op.107, arranged for woodwind orchestra and featuring young Glaswegian flautist Fiona Sweeney, who makes her debut with the Czech Philharmonic on this release.
Completing the album is More Gordian Knots by Guy Woolfenden OBE, a spirited reimagining of Purcell’s music for The Gordian Knot Unty’d, written during Woolfenden’s remarkable 40-year association with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Contents and tracklist
- Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
- Shea Lolin
- Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
- Shea Lolin
- Fiona Sweeney
- Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
- Shea Lolin
- Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
- Shea Lolin
- Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
- Shea Lolin
- Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
- Shea Lolin
- Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble
- Shea Lolin
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Awards and reviews
March 2026
It's the synchronicity in the playing of the Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble that's particularly apparent across the entire collection. In an album named Frisson, you expect lightness and excitement and we get that in spades.
February 2026
theirs is a virtuosity of the highest order...This new album is a marvellous collection of music old (Krommer) and new (Woolfenden though inspired by Purcell), familiar (Strauss) and less so (Lambert), all in arrangements for full wind ensemble, mostly made by Lolin in 2025.
