Gardens, Fables, Prisons, Dreams / Thwaites, Frith, Tippett Quartet

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Label
SOMM Recordings
Release Date
August 4, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Frederick Delius, Penelope Thwaites
    • PERFORMER
      Penelope Thwaites
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 04, 2023
    • UPC
      748871067226
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      SOMMCD 0672
    • LABEL
      SOMM Recordings
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Jan Palach's Theme

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Ensemble: Tippett Quartet

    2. I. The Lambeth Waltz

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    3. II. A Gardener's Song

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    4. III. Song of a Scotsman

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    5. IV. An English Rose

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    6. V. The Wildlife Garden

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    7. VI. Reprise: The Lambeth Waltz

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    8. Vijay's Fable

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: John Mills, Penelope Thwaites, Bozidar Vukotic

    9. Mazurka: Au Tombeau de Chopin

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: John Mills, Bozidar Vukotic, Penelope Thwaites

    10. In a Summer Garden (arr. P. Thwaites for 2 pianos)

      Composer: Frederick Delius

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    11. For Irina

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Ensemble: Tippett Quartet

    12. To the Hills

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Ensemble: Tippett Quartet

    13. I. Overture

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    14. II. Children's Dance and Games

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    15. III. The Chase

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    16. IV. Giant's Dance

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    17. V. Frost, Wind and Snow

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    18. VI. Spring and the Little Boy

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    19. VII. Celebration Dance

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith

    20. VIII. Evening Dance

      Composer: Penelope Thwaites

      Performer: Penelope Thwaites, Benjamin Frith


SOMM Recordings is delighted to announce the release of Gardens, Fables, Prisons, Dreams, eight first recordings of music by Penelope Thwaites paying homage to “the heroes, the witty wordsmiths, the dancers, the poets, and the visionaries; and two great composers” who have influenced her musical life. Thwaites is joined by fellow pianist Benjamin Frith for the exuberant six- part A Lambeth Garland, the enchanting eight-part retelling of Oscar Wilde’s fable The Selfish Giant and Thwaites’ arrangement of Delius’s In a Summer Garden, the first to be made for two pianos. She is heard with John Mills (violin) and Bozidar Vukotic (cello) on Vijay’s Fable, drawn from her culture-fusing score for Indian choreographer Vijaylakshmi Subramaniam, and the atmospheric Mazurka: au Tombeau de Chopin. The Tippett Quartet contribute three memorable performances: Jan Palach’s Theme, recalling the self-immolating student protestor against the Soviet Union’s 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia; For Irina, a tribute to dissident Russian poet Irina Ratushinskaya who survived imprisonment but died of cancer in 2017; and with double bassist Laurence Ungless for To the Hills, a string quintet version of Thwaites’ earlier choral setting of Psalm 121. Since her 1974 London debut at Wigmore Hall, she has performed in more than 30 countries, and is internationally known as an acclaimed pianist and editor of The New Percy Grainger Companion (Boydell Press, 2010), the standard reference book on performing his music.