Peter Fribbins: The Moving Finger Writes

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Peter Fribbins is a composer very much in the tradition of Britten and Tippett, unafraid to write melodically and tonally in thoughtful, well-wrought works. This Guild disc brings together four... — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 More…

Release Date: 18th Jun 2012
Catalogue No: GMCD7381
Label: Guild
Length: 64 minutes

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Fribbins: String Quartet No. 2 'After Cromer'

Work length19:19

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Chilingirian Quartet
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Robertas Servenikas

I. Presto. Allegro molto e drammatico

Track length6:28

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II. Andante

Track length3:44

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III. Scherzo - Allegro giocoso

Track length4:45

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IV. Finale: Vivo

Track length4:22

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Fribbins: A Haydn Prelude

Work length2:51

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Anthony Hewitt
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Robertas Servenikas

Fribbins: Piano Concerto

Work length30:57

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Diana Brekalo
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Robertas Servenikas

I. Adagio drammatico - Allegro vivo

Track length12:18

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II. Adagio - Andante - Tempo primo

Track length10:13

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III. Allegro vivo - Andante - Adagio - Affrettando - Fugato

Track length8:26

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Fribbins: Fantasias for Viola and Piano

Work length11:18

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Sarah-Jane Bradley, Anthony Hewitt
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Robertas Servenikas

I. Fantasia on Bugail Yr Hafod

Track length6:01

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II. Fantasia on Azt gondoltam eso esik

Track length5:17

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Renowned for his distinctive, passionate and direct musical style, this exciting new disc of music by Peter Fribbins follows the critically acclaimed ‘I Have the Serpent Brought’, first-class readings of Fribbins’s chamber music for strings which opened with the highly dramatic 1st String Quartet, released in 2010. The new CD opens with the equally striking 2nd Quartet, in a recording by the celebrated Chilingirian String Quartet. This leads, via a piano prelude on themes by Haydn, to the central work on the disc, Fribbins’s Piano Concerto, a significant new addition to the British concerto repertoire, performed by talented German pianist Diana Brekalo with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under Lithuanian conductor Robertas Šervenikas. Distinguished viola and piano duo Sarah-Jane Bradley and Anthony Hewitt complete the disc with Fribbins’s beguiling ‘Fantasias’ on Welsh and Hungarian folk songs. The disc, which offers a hugely enjoyable variety of works, takes its title from the indomitable lines of Omar Khayyám, which Fribbins uses to preface his powerful new Piano Concerto: The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

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Awards Issue 2012

Peter Fribbins is a composer very much in the tradition of Britten and Tippett, unafraid to write melodically and tonally in thoughtful, well-wrought works. This Guild disc brings together four of his works recorded from different sources in excellent sound...Altogether an illuminating portrait of a composer who deserves to be even better known.

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