Faber Music is delighted to make available Debbie Wiseman’s Jack Frost – A Winter Story – an enchanting festive tale with story, lyrics, and narration by the cherished broadcaster Alan Titchmarsh. The 30-minute work is a retelling of the perennial story of Jack Frost and set to become a fixture of the Christmas season. It is scored for an orchestra of single winds, four horns, pairs of trumpets and trombones, two percussionists, harp and strings, complemented by a solo soprano and a chorus of upper voices. The work is available for general concert performance for the Christmas and holiday season 2025.
It includes two new carols, also with words by Titchmarsh: The Stable Carol, sung by soprano Grace Davidson, who features on the record, and Tell Me, Star, sung by special guest artist Cerys Matthews and her son Red Abbott Matthews. Also featured on the recording are two musical suites for orchestra (Summer’s Long Gone and The Milky Moon) and three solo piano pieces, performed by Wiseman. The vocal score for Jack Frost is available to purchase through the Faber Music website, along with choir and piano versions of Tell Me, Star and The Stable Carol.
The album, released on 22 November by Silva Screen Records, is available to listen to here, and was No.1 in the UK Classical Chart in December and received extensive airplay on Classic FM, and parts of the piece received a public premiere in October 2024 as part of Classic FM Live at the Royal Albert Hall.
Debbie Wiseman OBE, whose distinguished career encompasses the worlds of TV, film and concert music is one of the UK’s most successful female music ambassadors with over 200 film and TV credits and many commissions for royal events. In 2012, as part of the Diamond Jubilee River Pageant, Wiseman was asked to write new ‘Water Music’ and conducted an on-board orchestra travelling down the River Thames as part of a 1,000-strong flotilla. She composed the ‘Overture and Finale’ for the late Queen’s 90th Birthday Celebration in 2016 as well as the tender ‘Elizabeth Remembered’, following the death of the Queen in 2022. In May 2023 her two ‘Gospel Alleluias’ featured at the coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla.