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John Jeffreys: Idylls & Elegies

1 CD / Divine Art / 2010-06-01

Works: John Jeffreys: Serenade for Strings; Toby's Dreams and Elegy, for piano; Sweeney the Mad, for voice & piano; A Lyke Wake Dirge, for voice & piano; Elegy for John Fry, for chamber orchestra; Poem for ...
Performers: Bateman, Paul; Katz, Shelly; Smith, Kenneth [Flute]; Veira, Jonathan
Conductors: Page, Kenneth; Bateman, Paul

Welsh composer John Jeffreys destroyed the bulk of his work during the 1950s because of the antipathetic atmosphere of the then musical establishment and it...continue...

Northumberland and Beyond - John Jeffreys / Ian Partridge, Jennifer Partridge

1 CD / Divine Art / 2008-11-11

Works: John Jeffreys: Northumberland ("Heatherland and bent-land"), for voice & piano; Merry Eye ("On the day ere I was born"), for voice & piano; Black Stitchel ("As I was lying on the Black Stitchel"), fo...
Performers: Partridge, Ian [Tenor Vocals]; Partridge, Jennifer

The major influences in the music of John Jeffreys (b.1927) include his Welsh parentage and his musical studies at home where the repertoire was limited...continue...

The Far Country - John Jeffreys / Gilchrist, Tilbrook

1 CD / Divine Art / 2007-08-21

Works: John Jeffreys: Awake Thee, My Bessy, for voice & piano; The Song of Love, for voice & piano; Under the Leaves Green, for voice & piano; She Is All So Slight, for voice & piano; Brown Is My Love, for ...
Performers: Gilchrist, James [Tenor Vocal]; Tilbrook, Anna

Of Welsh parentage, Jeffreys was born the son of a Congregational minister. Pursuing a fascination with English literature and musical history, he has composed these...continue...