Fricker: Serenade No. 5, Op. 81

Featuring

James Dickenson
Nicholas Stringfellow
Peter Racine Fricker

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Composer Biography

Peter Racine Fricker, the composer, was born in 1920 to parents who met during their service in the Mediterranean theatre of the First World War.

Performer Biography

James Dickenson, the violinist on this album, co-founded the Villiers Quartet, which is now quartet-in-residence at the University of Oxford.

Performer Biography

Nicholas Stringfellow, the cellist, has worked with many eminent artists in the rock and pop world, leading cello sections for Smokey Robinson, Dionne Warwick, and Gloria Estefan.

Composer Biography

Fricker, the composer, initially considered a career as a concert organist, continuing to do so until the late 1940s.

Composition History

Fricker's Serenade No. 5, Op. 81 for violin and cello was written in 1980, during a period when his musical output more than doubled.

Compositional Technique

The Serenade No. 5, Op. 81 by Fricker is in five movements, including a contemplative Prelude, an oscillating Scherzino, an opaquely harmonic Serenata, a mournful Elegy, and an intensely refined Postlude.