Tim’s debut solo CD is released
Monday 30 March 2009
The Frostbound Wood, Tim’s debut solo CD with the world-renowned pianist and organist Jeremy Filsell, with whom he has established a long-standing musical relationship, has been released on the Signum Classics label. The disc is available from Amazon, Crotchet, Presto Classical and from Signum Classics directly.
Born out of a love of the music of Peter Warlock and the poetry of the renaissance and Tudor periods, it is a collection of songs by British composers from the last century. Presenting a substantial selection of Warlock’s song-writing, with its unique and tasteful fusion of the modern with the old harmony, it also brings to the fore some of the little known songs of Herbert Howells, also an admirer of the ‘old-style’ music of the renaissance and Tudor periods, Betty Roe’s Noble Numbers, inspired by the 16th-century poetry of Robert Herrick, and the world premiere of seven charming songs written especially for the countertenor voice by Michael Howard, former organist of Ely Cathedral, and founder of the pioneering vocal ensemble The Renaissance Singers. Having firmly established himself in the repertory of early music, the countertenor sound of Tim’s voice can be heard in a unique and revolutionary way, in the inimitable colours of music inspired by the unique qualities of his homeland.