Jack Liebeck - A trio of new releases

9 February 2024

Jack Liebeck has reason to celebrate with a trio of upcoming albums. On February 9th, London Choral Sinfonia and conductor Michael Waldron release “Retrospect”, an album of world premiere arrangements of Vaughan Williams’ own works, including his lesser-known “Concerto Accademico”, performed by Jack. The album also features Vaughan Williams’ seminal “Silent Noon” sung by renowned British tenor Andrew Staples (and arranged for strings by Owain Park). The album is released on Orchid Classics.

In spring, Jack & Anna Tilbrook release an album of beautiful world premiere works from the lesser known British composer Frederick Laurence (1884-1942). Frederick Laurence was an accomplished violinist, composer, orchestral manager at the Queens Hall, Covent Garden and London Philharmonic Orchestra with Thomas Beecham and was also a music advisor to EMI. The album, “The Music of Frederick Laurence” has been masterminded by Frederick’s Grandson, Chris and is also to be released on Orchid Classics.

Earlier this year, Jack returned to the studio with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra and conductor Rory Macdonald to record Thomas Wilson’s violin concerto, to be released on Linn Records, part of the Outhere Music family.

And it doesn’t stop there, Jack’s summer is also very busy as he hemisphere hops from festivals in the US (Savannah Chamber Music Festival – April 2024) to the main stage at Sydney Opera House to premiere Taylor Scott Davis’ “Effortlessly” (which was written especially for Jack & VOCES8) from “To Sing of Love: a Triptych”, on 23rd June with VOCES8 and Barnaby Smith conducting, to his own Australian Festival of Chamber Music and back to the US in time for Inon Barnatan’s La Jolla Summerfest in August.