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Back from Before

The David Rees-Williams Trio

Released
2010
Label
DePaeaN
Forces
Piano, Trio
Personnel
David Rees-Williams piano, Hammond organ and vibraphone, Neil Francis bass guitar, Phil Laslett drums, with Stephanie Oade cello

David Rees-Williams, bassist Neil Francis and drummer Phil Laslett had been playing together for more than two decades when they recorded Back from Before.

Several arrangements place two older works inside the same track, including pairs by Gibbons, Pergolesi and Bach. These are more than convenient medleys: the joins allow one piece to redirect the harmony or rhythm of another, showing how readily the trio can find new routes through music separated by period, form and purpose.

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The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.

The originalsWidor, S.S. Wesley, Gibbons, Pergolesi, Parisotti, S. Wesley, J.S. Bach, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Parry · classical source works

The classical player has fifteen recordings for twelve tracks because tracks 3, 4 and 6 each join two works and carry a recording of both: Gibbons’s The Queenes Command and Preludium, Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater: Quis est homo and Se tu m’ami, and Bach’s Prelude in C major, BWV 846, and the Sinfonia from Partita No. 2, BWV 826; the album itself is not available to stream, so the jazz player is empty.

Jazzed upThe David Rees-Williams Trio · 2010
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Source works

The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.

  1. Symphony No.6 (organ), Movement 1Widor: Organ Symphony No. 6 in G minor, Op. 42 No. 2: I. Allegro
  2. Wash Me ThroughtlyS.S. Wesley: Anthem ‘Wash me throughly from my wickedness’
  3. The Queenes Command/PreludiumGibbons: The Queenes Command, MB 28; Preludium, MB 1, both from Parthenia
  4. Stabat Mater / Se tu n’amiPergolesi: Stabat Mater, P. 77: V. ‘Quis est homo qui non fleret’; Parisotti: ‘Se tu m’ami’, published as Pergolesi’s
  5. GavotteS. Wesley: Gavotte in F major
  6. Prelude in C major / Partita No.2 in C minorJ.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier I: Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846; Partita No. 2 in C minor, BWV 826: I. Sinfonia
  7. Symphony No.4, Movement 2, AdagioTchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36: II. Andantino in modo di canzona
  8. Gigue in G, K.574Mozart: Gigue in G major, K. 574
  9. Das alte Jahr vergangen istJ.S. Bach: Das alte Jahr vergangen ist, BWV 614
  10. Ave Verum CorpusMozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618
  11. Lead Me LordS.S. Wesley: Anthem ‘Lead me, Lord’, from ‘Praise the Lord, O my soul’
  12. Laudate DominumParry: Hymn tune ‘Laudate Dominum’ (‘O praise ye the Lord’)