The Saturday-morning programme, given in the Pittville Pump Room by the viol consort Fretwork and the superbly pure-voiced countertenor Iestyn Davies, encompassed not only three searingly chromatic Gesualdo songs, and two by Wolf, but melancholy effusions by Dowland, Warlock and Britten, the accompaniment for viols proving in the modern cases oddly effective. Britten’s grief-stricken, overwhelming folk-song treatment, O waly, waly, elicited Davies’s finest mastery, and was, for me, a textbook instance of those shivers down the spine.
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- RCM IVF 16th September 2012
- Great new review of the Goldbergs! 27th February 2012
- Carnegie Hall 20th February 2012
- Tom Courtenay 11th December 2011
- NYT Reviews Goldbergs 23rd November 2011
- Goldbergs released 3rd November 2011
- Tom Courtenay 29th September 2011
- Herald review of St Magnus festival 11th August 2011
- Wild Winter released 12th May 2011
- Honor Brogan 16th April 2011
- Goldberg Tour 28th February 2011
- BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show 14th February 2011
- BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show 10th January 2011
- Composer Competition 6th December 2010
- Chicago review 1st November 2010
- North American Tour 30th October 2010
- Sunday Times review 17th July 2010
- The Guardian 16th July 2010
- The World Encompassed Review 24th June 2010
- Mark Lawson interviews Fretwork 15th June 2010
- Front Row & In Tune 9th June 2010
- Kings Place 16th May 2010
- Fretwork on All Nippon Airways 27th April 2010
- Carnegie Hall debut 12th March 2010
- Hamburg Review 16th December 2009
- Fretwork at St John’s, Smith Square 6th December 2009
- Fretwork win! 3rd October 2009
- Latest Fretwork recording released in Japan 21st September 2009
- Fretwork up for Gramophone Award 1st September 2009
- Fretwork is Classic FM Editor’s Choice 14th June 2009
- Goldberg Interview available 26th April 2009
- Sakamoto CD launched 12th March 2009
- Birds on Fire one of the best 2nd March 2009
- Fretwork play Sakamoto 18th November 2008
- ‘Birds on Fire’ Editor’s Choice in Gramophone 13th July 2008
- Fretwork in King’s Place 5th May 2008
- Fretwork open Stavanger2008, European City of Culture 30th September 2007
- Robin Holloway reviews Fretwork’s Evensongs 25th July 2007
- Independent on Sunday 24th June 2007 23rd June 2007
- Fretwork and Broken Flowers 9th July 2006