About Us
A brief bio of Will FraserFugue State Films makes engaging and engrossing films about classical music for the discerning viewer. Our films are available digitally or in beautifully-produced multi-DVD boxsets.
Our films such as The Genius of Cavaillé-Coll, Maximum Reger and Bach and Expression have garnered excellent reviews, our favourite being: “You should buy this set. Mortgage your house, sell your relatives into slavery, but get it!” (Musicweb International).
We have won best DVD in the BBC Music Magazine Awards twice, the Deutschen Schallplattenkritikpreis three times, and we even made the six o’clock news in New Zealand.
Will Fraser grew up in the west of England and the east of Canada. He was educated at three contrasting universities, Dalhousie in Canada, Cambridge in the UK, and the University of Mississippi in the USA. He is a musician, writer and film-maker. He has won awards for the classical music documentaries he makes through Fugue State Films (BBC Music Magazine “best DVD” twice, and the Deutschenschallplattenkritikpreis three times).
These music films include Martinikerk Rondeau, The Genius of Cavaillé-Coll and Maximum Reger. He is fascinated by America and has made three films about the country so far – Soul Searching for the Blues, Once Upon a Time in Knoxville and Cowboy and Preacher: the Life and Times of Tri Robinson. This last film premiered in Hollywood at the 2018 Dances with Films festival.
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The Harmonious Handel
£12.50Handel's Carillon, The Harmonious Blacksmith's Suite, and rare gems for the harpsichord played by Colin Booth.
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Messiaen’s Musical Universe
Original price was: £48.50.£38.50Current price is: £38.50.Epic multi-disc boxset from Fugue State Films. Tom Bell performs Messiaen's Le Banquet Celeste, La Nativité, the Messe de la Pentecôte and the magisterial Livre du Saint-Sacrement in their entirety at Blackburn Cathedral. In an accompanying documentary Tom explores Messiaen's life and compositions with biographer and scholar Christopher Dingle.
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Bach: The Great Toccata – Buy DVD
Original price was: £28.50.£19.50Current price is: £19.50.Bach is arguably the greatest of all composers, and certainly the greatest composer who wrote for the organ. Daniel Moult, explores the extraordinary Toccata and Fugue in D minor, an instantly recognisable masterpiece that is one of the most popular pieces of music ever written.
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Cloister – a Novel by Will Fraser – Hardback
£18.99Will Fraser's first novel: Matthew, an ambitious assistant organist is in conflict with his lazy director of music, an unworthy boss. While Matthew strives to excel in this uneasy milieu, he is further destabilised by the thrilling attractions of Chloë, a blues singer. This relationship involves him in the resolution of a homicide … but has the murderer returned?
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The Lost Tapes of St Mary’s
Original price was: £28.50.£26.50Current price is: £26.50.Beautiful selection of choral music sung by the choir of St Mary's Nottingham. Archive recordings from the 1970s and '80s.
