Lamento Iestyn Davies & Fretwork

• Franz Tunder (1614 - 1667):
• 1 Tunder: Salve mi Jesu 05:54
• Samuel Scheidt (1587 - 1654):
• 2 Scheidt: Canzon super ‘o Nachbar Roland’, Sswv 66 05:57
• Johann Christoph Bach (1642 - 1703):
• 3 Bach: Ach dass ich Wassers g’nug hätte (Lamento) 07:50
• Johann Hermann Schein (1586 - 1630): Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 14:
• 4 Schein: Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 14: I. Paduan 03:20
• 5 Schein: Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 14: Ii. Gagliarda 00:43
• 6 Schein: Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 14: Iii. Courente 00:47
• 7 Schein: Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 14: Iv. Allemande & Tripla 01:39
• Heinrich Schütz (1585 - 1672):
• 8 Schütz: Geistliche Chor-music, Op. 11: Auf dem Gebirge, Swv 396 05:00
• Johann Hermann Schein: Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 7:
• 9 Schein: Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 7: . Paduan 03:12
• 10 Schein: Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 7: I. Gagliarda 01:23
• 11 Schein: Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 7: Ii. Courente 00:54
• 12 Schein: Banchetto Musicale, Suite No. 7: V. Allemande & Tripla 00:55
• Christian Geist (1650 - 1711):
• 13 Geist: Es war aber an der Stätte 08:36
• Franz Tunder:
• 14 Tunder: An Wasserflüßen Babylon 03:19
• Samuel Scheidt:
• 15 Scheidt: Canzon super Cantionem Gallicam Sswv 67 04:51
• Giovanni Felice Sances (1600 - 1679):
• 16 Sances: O dulce nomen Jesu 05:21
• Johann Hermann Schein:
• 17 Schein: Christ unser Herr zum Jordan Kam 05:01
• Total Runtime 01:04:42

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Nach ihrer hochgelobten Einspielung mit Musik von Michael Nyman und Henry Purcell (SIGCD 586) legen der exzellente britische Countertenor Iestyn Davies und das famose Gambenensemble Fretwork - das übrigens 2021 sein 35-jähriges Bestehen feiert - hier ihr zweites gemeinsames Album vor. Auf dem Programm stehen Werke des norddeutschen Barock (mit einem kleinen Ausreißer nach Wien). Beiträge des Organisten Silas Wollston und des Countertenors Hugh Cutting erweitern den Rahmen der Möglichkeiten und lassen uns den Reichtum und die Schönheit der Musik des norddeutschen Barock am Ende des nicht nur musikalisch ereignisreichen 17. Jahrhunderts erahnen.

Iestyn Davies, Countertenor
Hugh Cutting, Countertenor
Silas Wollston, Orgel, Virignal
Ensemble Fretwork

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 can be seen in 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.

Although blessed with a Welsh name, Iestyn hails from York, born into a musical household, his father being the founding cellist of the Fitzwilliam String Quartet.

He began his singing life as a chorister at St John’s College, Cambridge under the direction of Dr.George Guest and later Christopher Robinson.

Later, after graduating in Archaeology and Anthropology from St John’s College, Cambridge Iestyn studied at the Royal Academy of Music, London of which he is now a Fellow.

In 2015 he delighted London theatre audiences singing the role of Farinelli in the play, Farinelli and the King with Mark Rylance at the Globe Theatre. The hugely successful project transferred to the West End this season and was nominated for a number of Olivier Awards.

His operatic engagements have included Ottone (L’incoronazione di Poppea/Monteverdi) for Zürich Opera and Glyndebourne Festival Opera; Arsace (Partenope/Handel) for New York City Opera; Oberon (A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Britten) for Houston Grand Opera, English National Opera and The Metropolitan Opera, New York; Apollo (Death in Venice/Britten) for English National Opera and in his house debut at La Scala, Milan; Hamor (Jephtha/Handel) for Welsh National Opera and Opera National de Bordeaux; Steffani’s Niobe at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden; his debut at The Metropolitan Opera Unulfo (Rodelinda/Handel) where he has also appeared as Trinculo The Tempest; the Lyric Opera of Chicago in Rinaldo; Bertarido Rodelinda for English National Opera; his debuts at the Opéra Comique and the Munich and Vienna Festivals in George Benjamin's Written on Skin and the title role Rinaldo for Glyndebourne Festival Opera. He returned to Glyndebourne in 2015 for David in Handel’s Saul.

His concert engagements have included performances at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan with Dudamel, the Concertgebouw and Tonhalle with Koopman and at the Barbican, Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Lincoln Centre and at the BBC Proms in the Royal Albert Hall with orchestras that include the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic, Britten Sinfonia, Concerto Köln, Concerto Copenhagen, Ensemble Matheus, the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Academy of Ancient Music and Scottish Chamber Orchestra. He recently made his debut, in recital, at Carnegie Hall, New York. He enjoys a successful relationship with the Wigmore Hall, where, in the 2012/13 season, he curated his own residency.

Recent highlights have included two Bach recitals at the Edinburgh International Festival, Britten's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream' at the Aldeburgh Festival and Schubert's 'Die Schöne Müllerin' with Julius Drake at Middle Temple Hall, London. Future plans include Thomas Adès's "The Exterminating Angel' at the Metropolitan Opera New York and Farinelli & the King with Mark Rylance on Broadway, New York.

His recordings include two versions of Handel’s Messiah (New College Oxford, AAM/Naxos) and (Polyphony, Britten Sinfonia/Hyperion), Handel’s Chandos Anthems on Hyperion, Handel’s Flavio for Chandos with The Early Opera Company and Christian Curnyn, Bach’s Easter Oratorio with Retrospect Ensemble, his debut solo recording Live at the Wigmore Hall with his own Ensemble Guadagni, a disc of Porpora Cantatas with Jonathan Cohen and Arcangelo, an award winning disc of works for Guadagni for Hyperion and a disc of Handel arias with The King’s Consort for Vivat. 2014/5 saw the release of The Art of Melancholy, a recital of Dowland songs for Hyperion, Flow my tears, songs for lute, viol and voice on the Wigmore Live label and Arise my muse for which he received the Gramophone Recital Award. He has added recordings of Bach Cantatas with Arcangelo, Faure Songs with Malcolm Martineau andlooks forward to the release of Bach's Magnificat and B Minor Mass in the coming months both for Hyperion.

He is the recipient of the 2010 Royal Philharmonic Young Artist of the Year Award, the 2012 & 2014 Gramophone Recital Award, the 2013 Critics’ Circle Awards for Exceptional Young Talent (Singer).

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