Fenella Humphreys - Prism (2024)

Violinist Fenella Humphreys brings you a new album with Rubicon Classics after her 2023 BBC Magazine Premiere Award-winning album ‘Caprices’. Fenella brings a unique programme called ‘Prism’, which focuses on unaccompanied violin works. These consist of new works written by young British composers such as Michael Small, Bethan Morgan-Williams and Cheryl Frances-Hoad to more iconic contemporary works by British and American compoosers such as Caroline Shaw, Jessie Montgomery, George Walker and the wonderful Sir Peter Maxwell Davies!

The highlight of the album is Fenella’s new arrangement of J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fugue BWV 565.

“This album grew out of a longing to keep performing music that I was gifted, arranged or first discovered during the spring of 2020.” – Fenella Humphreys

Tracklist
01. Frances-Hoad- Entrance Music
02. Bach- Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 565- Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565
03. Shaw- In Manus Tuas
04. Satie- Gymnopédie No. 1
05. Small- Prism
06. Morgan-Williams- One, Two, Bakerloo…
07. Robertson- Skydance
08. Scott- Idyll
09. Jenkins- Tincture of the Skies- I. Expansive, free
10. Jenkins- Tincture of the Skies- II. Resonant, dark
11. Jenkins- Tincture of the Skies- III. Freely, singing
12. Walker- Bleu
13. Debussy- Préludes Book I, CD 125, L. 117- No. 8, La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin
14. Lewis- Apart we are not Alone
15. Lewis- Together Apart
16. Montgomery- Rhapsody No. 1
17. Biles-Liddell- Contemplations- I. Prelude
18. Biles-Liddell- Contemplations- II. Gigue
19. Biles-Liddell- Contemplations- III. Nocturne
20. Biles-Liddell- Contemplations- IV. Postlude
21. Schumann- Kinderszenen, Op. 15- No. 7. Träumerei
22. Frances-Hoad- Exit Music
23. Davies- A Last Postcard from Sanday