Jeremy Filsell and David Briggs, both internationally renowned recitalists, have known each other since their schoolboy years in the English Midlands.
Performer Biography
Vasari Singers, founded over thirty years ago by Jeremy Backhouse, is one of Britain's leading chamber choirs, performing a wide range of music from Renaissance to contemporary.
Recording & Production
This album brings together two renowned British organist/composers, Jeremy Filsell and David Briggs, to showcase their playing and choral compositions.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Jeremy Filsell's choral works reflect his involvement in church music and are rooted in the tradition of organists writing for their own choirs and colleagues.
Recording & Production
Three of the works on this recording were specially commissioned from Jeremy Filsell and David Briggs by Vasari Singers for this album.
Composer Biography
Jeremy Filsell, a virtuoso on both piano and organ, studied as an organ scholar at Oxford University and earned a Ph.D. in piano performance.
Composer Biography
David Briggs is famous for his brilliant organ transcriptions of symphonic music by composers like Mahler and Tchaikovsky, and for improvising to silent films.
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