A Countertenor Songbook

A Countertenor SongbookRelease Date: 19 October 2018 This album brings together the works of seven very different composers in a single songbook. Most of the pieces were written specially for countertenor Andrew Watts, who has championed contemporary music for the thirty years he has been singing professionally. He has established a reputation for being one of the foremost operatic countertenors of his generation and has appeared on opera and concert platforms throughout

which collectively cover all the major and minor keys of the chromatic scale

performing anything from solo repertoire to chamber music with dancers

14 and 19 November 2002 at Champs Hill

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for violin

and featuring his own works Freighttrain Bruise and Kemp's Morris

it is filled with piquant yet often spacious harmonies

Barnabás Kelemen violin

50 unvirtuosic contemporary miniatures by 30 of Britain’s leading composers

He has established a reputation for being one of the foremost operatic countertenors of his generation and has appeared on opera and concert platforms throughout the world

with two movements that take lines from the poem Fern Hill by Dylan Thomas

with live electronics from Sound Intermedia