Timothy Roberts: Portraits, Distillations and Soundgames
Timothy Roberts, born in Hampstead, north London, in 1953, has been a mainstay of the early-music scene in Britain and further afield for decades. He is best known as a keyboard player, but in recent years composing has been of growing importance to him. Hardly surprisingly, his music refracts the Baroque and Classical world in which he is active, usually with a playful but respectful twist.
Jeremy West, cornett (tracks 1–13, 17–23)
Timothy Roberts, harpsichord (tracks 2–15), piano (tracks 11–16), clavichord (track 14), organ (track 22)
His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts (tracks 5–10)
Katy Bircher and Andrew Crawford, Baroque flutes (tracks 18–21)
Gail Hennessy and Hilary Stock, oboes da caccia (tracks 18–21)
Mike Gingold, alto saxophone (track 24)
Charles Daniels, tenor (track 27)
Digital compositions (tracks 24, 26–28)
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Improvisations for Jeremy for solo cornett (2005)
- No. 31 Firle Beacon
- No. 1 En sourdine (prélude non mesuré)
- No. 2 Clair de lune (style brisé)
- No. 3 Puis que l’aube grandit (arpeggio)
- No. 1 Intrada
- No. 2 Cromatica
- No. 3 Forte e piano
- No. 4 Fantasia allegra
- No. 5 Canzona amorosa
- No. 6 G. Gabrieli in memoriam
- No. 1 Mozart in Blue
- No. 2 Insomniac Rag: or, The Fearful Symmetries Nocturne
- No. 5 Mild and Bitter
- Valldemossa Road for clavichord
- The Duke’s Rondeau for harpsichord
- Sonatina for Haydn for piano
- No. 18 Southease
- Prelude
- Fugue I: The Spirit is Willing but the Flesh is Weak
- Fugue II: Ye Have Always the Poor with You
- Fugue III: My God, My God, Why hast Thou Forsaken Me?
- Improvisation for Gerhard Grenzing for organ
- No. 4 The Furlongs
- No. 5 Groundwork I, after Purcell’s A New Ground
- No. 10 Sunshine for the Mind, after ‘Sound the Trumpet’
- No. 11 Groundwork II, on the ground bass of ‘Music for a While’
- No. 14 And So to Bed, after An Evening Hymn
- No. 12 An Orchestra’s Guide to the Young Person, after the Rondo from Abdelazer
Three Distillations from Songs by Gabriel Fauré for harpsichord (1997)
On the Wall, Off the Wall: Six Venetian Sketches for cornetts and sackbuts (2004)
Two Family Portraits for piano (1996)
Improvisations for Jeremy
Valldemossa Road for clavichord (2006)
The Duke’s Rondeau for harpsichord (2009)
Sonatina for Haydn for piano (2009)
Improvisations for Jeremy
Upon Words from Saint Matthew for two Baroque flutes and two oboes da caccia (2001)
The Triumphant Fall of Man for organ (2006)
Improvisations for Jeremy
Sunshine for the Mind: 19 Soundgames on Works by Henry Purcell (2006–15)
FIRST RECORDINGS
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