Utwory na płycie:

• The Queen's hall (nach einer Improvisation von Edward Elgar)
• Time stands still
• Ground C-Dur Z D 221
• Crucifixus (Motette)
• Fuge g-moll
• Konzert für 2 Violoncelli, Streicher und Basso continuo g-moll, RV 531 - Largo
• Lord Lovat's lament
• Nuages gris (Trübe Wolken) S 199
• Kanon
• A la manière de Borodine
• Pleading
• A child asleep
• Queen Mary's lute song
• Epilog für Streicher
• Sonnerie (The bells of St Genevieve)

Edward Elgar:
The Queen’s Hall
Pleading
A Child Asleep
Queen Mary’s Lute Song

John Dowland:
And Time Stands Still

Henry Purcell:
Ground in C

Antonio Lotti:
Crucifixus

Nicola Antonio Porpora:
Fugue in G

Antonio Vivaldi:
Concerto for Two Cellos, RV 531 - Largo

David Fraser:
Piper to the Laird Lovat - Lord Lovat’s Lament

Franz Liszt:
Nuage Gris (Grey Clouds)

Alexander Scriabin:
Canon

Maurice Ravel:
Valse (in the manner of Borodin)

Donald Fraser:
A Christmas Symphony - Epilogue - Amen

Marin Marais:
Sonnerie

In the 1990s, Donald Fraser scored a hit with his orchestral arrangement of Marin Marais’ baroque classic The Bells of St. Genevieve which reached the Top 5 of Billboard’s Classical Chart and remains a radio evergreen to this day. Numerous commissions for arrangements followed for musicians such as The King’s Singers, Yehudi Menuhin and the English Chamber Orchestra. In 2016, AVIE released Don’s large-scale orchestration of Edward Elgar’s Piano Quintet and choral version of Sea Pictures, which charted in the Top 10 of the UK Specialist Classical Chart. Don now returns to the art of arranging smaller scale, classic works by John Dowland, Henry Purcell, Antonio Vivaldi and others, including new versions of his own “Amen” from A Christmas Symphony which was written for and premiered by soprano Jessye Norman, a new re-mix of The Bells of St. Genevieve and orchestrations of four Elgar art songs that evoke the album’s title, Songs for Strings.

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Recorded 5 April 2018, Abbey Road Studio 2, English String Orchestra (2 – 10, 14); 31 July 2013, Abbey Road Studio 1, English Chamber Orchestra Tracks (1, 11 – 13); 27 May 2018, The Barn Studio, Shirland, Illinois (15).