Iestyn Davies & Fretwork — If: Michael Nyman, Henry Purcell

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Michael Nyman’s love for Henry Purcell’s music came to prominence in his intoxicating soundtrack to the 1982 film <i>The Draughtsman’s Contract</i>. That mix of English Baroque and Nyman’s fertile imagination has produced much besides. This beautiful, haunting album exploring a unique musical fusion unites Iestyn Davies’ incomparable countertenor with viol consort Fretwork. Nyman’s suite <i>No Time in Eternity</i>, setting poetry by Robert Herrick, pulses elegiacally. Purcell’s “Music for a While” is sultrily performed and Nyman’s response, “Music After a While”, winds restlessly on Purcell’s original ground bass. But it’s the short title track that steals the show: a simple, affecting song of regret and hope.

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Iestyn Davies & Fretwork

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  1. No Time in Eternity: I. To Music (I) 2:14
  2. No Time in Eternity: II. No Time in Eternity 0:49
  3. No Time in Eternity: III. Fortune 1:02
  4. No Time in Eternity: IV. The Definition of Beauty 0:54
  5. No Time in Eternity: V. Things Mortal Still Mutable 1:25
  6. No Time in Eternity: VI. The Watch 1:57
  7. No Time in Eternity: VII. To Music (II) 2:29
  8. Balancing the Books (Arr. Richard Boothby) 9:49
  9. The Diary of Anne Frank (Arr. Richard Boothby): If 3:31
  10. The Diary of Anne Frank (Arr. Richard Boothby): Why 4:19
  11. Oedipus, Z.583 (Arr. Richard Boothby): II. Music for a While 3:52
  12. Music After a While 11:51
  13. Evening Hymn, Z.193 (Arr. Silas Wolston) 4:51
  14. The Self-Laudatory Hymn of Inanna and her Omnipotence 13:17
  15. O Solitude, my Sweetest Choice, Z.406 (Arr. Richard Boothby) 5:20