RECORDINGS

FRISSON
music for woodwind orchestra

Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble,
Shea Lolin (conductor),
Fiona Sweeney (flute)

Franz Krommer Partita in F Major, Op. 57
Richard Strauss Serenade, Op. 7

Cécile Chaminade Concertino, Op. 107

Constant Lambert Romeo and Juliet
Guy Woolfenden More Gordian Knots

Conductor Shea Lolin presents Frisson, an exciting new album of music for woodwind orchestra and his third recording with the principal woodwind players of the Czech Philharmonic (Gramophone’s Orchestra of the Year 2024). Frisson follows the release of the ground-breaking Twisted Skyscape, the first album devoted entirely to new music for woodwind orchestra, and Chromosphere, which focused on contemporary repertoire. Frisson marks Shea Lolin’s 20-year involvement with the woodwind orchestra and celebrates its evolution from the early eighteenth-century genre of Harmoniemusik – formal ensemble music for pairs of winds – to its modern form. The album features a superb programme of arrangements for woodwind orchestra by Shea Lolin, all originally commissioned by the Bloomsbury Woodwind Ensemble, one of which is Cécile Chaminade’s beloved Concertino, Op.107, featuring young Glaswegian flautist Fiona Sweeney, who makes her debut with the Czech Philharmonic on this release.

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CHROMOSPHERE

symphonic colours of the woodwind orchestra

Five world premiere recordings of new music performed by the Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble conducted by Shea Lolin.

Featuring the world-class instrumental playing of the principal woodwind players of the Czech Philharmonic and recorded in the glorious acoustic of the Dvořák Hall at the Rudolfinum in Prague

Keiron Anderson Alice in Wonderland

Judith Bingham Mozart’s Pets

Charlotte Harding Bright Lights

Kamran Ince Domes

Christopher Hussey Child of the Wandering Sea

Following the success of their groundbreaking 2015 album, Twisted Skyscape, conductor Shea Lolin and composer/producer Christopher Hussey have returned to Prague to record with the Czech Philharmonic Wind Ensemble, carefully curating an album of premiere recordings spotlighting the woodwind orchestra, capturing its kaleidoscopic colours and symphonic potential in order to deepen and broaden appreciation of the medium’s power.

A large chamber ensemble of flutes, oboes, clarinets, bassoons and saxophones in various sizes, the woodwind orchestra has a highly adaptable and magical tonal palette—it can be, in turn, boldly vibrant and delicately beautiful, thrillingly powerful and hauntingly tender, earnestly solemn and joyously comical.

The recorded repertoire reflects a spectrum of musical styles that exist in 21st-century concert music, ranging from the familiar and instantly singable to the more avant-garde, but always possessing an accessible and inviting musical narrative.

Chromosphere is a landmark album, comprising exciting new and reimagined pieces by leading composers in the genre and demonstrating the unique soundworld of the woodwind orchestra.

Further details about this release can be found at: shealolin.co.uk/chromosphere

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TWISTED SKYSCAPE

The first commercially released album of woodwind orchestra music recorded with the Czech Philharmonic, conducted by Shea Lolin.

Release date: 2015. Re-released in 2023.

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