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1: Sarabande (From Partita No. 4, BWV 828) (3:24)
2: Gedenke Doch, Mein Geist, Zur?cke (1:30)
3: Sarabande (From French Suite No. 3, BWV 814) (1:44)
4: Komm, S?sser Tod (3:05)
5: Corrente (From Partita No. 6, BWV 830) (2:42)
6: Liebster Herr Jesu (3:34)
: Echo (For Voice And Piano, 2017) (15:17)
12: By Beauteous Softness (4:41)
13: Music For A While (4:09)
14: I Wonder As I Wander (c. 1941) (4:45)
15: Dafydd y Garreg Wen (3:38)
16: How Sweet The Answer (The Wren) (2:30)
17: The World (2021) (4:07)
18: Lament (2012) (3:23)
19: Peace On Earth (2006) (3:08) |
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| Description: | Echo: Songs Across The Ages by Ruby Hughes, released 4 November 2022.
This version of Echo: Songs Across The Ages comes as a 1xSuper Audio. - .. ACROSS THE AGES / WORKS BY BACH/PURCELL/A.O.Huw Watkins' song cycle Echo, composed for soprano Ruby Hughes and premiered in 2017 at Carnegie Hall, is at the center of this artfully crafted recital. Setting texts by five different poets, the cycle is a work centered on melancholy - on transience, remembrance, and in the final song a numbed cry of inconceivable loss. As such it permeates the entire program, adding a new and unexpected depth to that which precedes as well as follows. Another strand of the recital is the idea of how composers across the ages have addressed and echoed one another lovingly in their music - often in the most nuanced and unconscious way. Bach's solo keyboard works capture something of a sense of timelessness, or more accurately, inspire an emotional connection that transcends time. A similar affinity seems to inform Britten's folksong arrangements and his realizations of Bach's Geistliche Lieder as well as the Purcell realizations by Thomas Adès and Tippett. A different kind of echo is created by the inclusion of Britten's version of Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock) - a nod to the performers' shared Welsh heritage. Closing the disc, three songs by contemporary British composers admired by both Watkins and Hughes also resonate with the previous works, bringing the program full circle. |
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- Alt 13- Baritone 146- Bass 12- Countertenor 35- Mezzo-Soprano 92- Other Art Song 451- Soprano 396- Tenor 124Other Classic 3.468Symphonic Music 14.540
