New Album Releases: SONGS FOR NEW LIFE AND LOVE (Ruby Hughes & Joseph Middleton)

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Artist:
Ruby Hughes
Joseph Middleton

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
74:01

Record Label:
BIS

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
August 6, 2021



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Product Description: After appearing on a quartet of very different BIS releases, ranging from early baroque arias to orchestral songs by Alban Berg and Mahler’s ‘Resurrection Symphony’, the British soprano Ruby Hughes has devised a song recital, together with her regular Lieder partner Joseph Middleton. The process began in 2018 when the two gave the world première of Helen Grime’s Bright Travellers, a set of five poems charting the interior and exterior worlds of pregnancy and motherhood. Ruby Hughes soon set about planning a programme which would converge with Grime’s music and the themes of new life and of love in all its aspects. The recital is bookended by two song cycles by Gustav Mahler which explore love, grief, loss and reconciliation through quite different lenses. In the opening cycle we experience Mahler as solitary wayfarer and hear of unrequited love. In Kindertotenlieder, the second cycle, the poet Friedrich Rückert pours out his pain as a grieving father in songs about the beauty and innocence of children. Completing the programme is Charles Ives – described by Ruby Hughes as Mahler’s ‘musical kindred spirit’ – with a selection of love songs, prayers and lullabies.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 1, Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht (4:36)

2 . Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 2, Ging heut' morgen über's Feld (4:57)

3 . Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 3, Ich hab' ein glühend Messer (3:21)

4 . Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 4, Die zwei blauen Augen (5:42)

5 . 114 .Songs (Excerpts): No. 15, The Housatonic at Stockbridge (3:56)

6 . 114 .Songs (Excerpts): No. 57, Mists (1:45)

7 . Bright Travellers: No. 1, Soundings (2:33)

8 . Bright Travellers: No. 2, Brew (2:22)

9 . Bright Travellers: No. 3, Visitations (3:05)

10 . Bright Travellers: No. 4, Milk Fever (2:14)

11 . Bright Travellers: No. 5, Council Offices (4:19)

12 . 114 .Songs (Excerpts): No. 42, Serenity (2:16)

13 . 114 .Songs (Excerpts): No. 74, The Children's Hour (2:19)

14 . 114 .Songs (Excerpts): No. 108, Songs My Mother Taught Me (2:55)

15 . Kindertotenlieder (Arr. for Voice & Piano): No. 1, Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgehn (5:16)

16 . Kindertotenlieder (Arr. for Voice & Piano): No. 2, Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen (4:26)

17 . Kindertotenlieder (Arr. for Voice & Piano): No. 3, Wenn dein Mütterlein (4:24)

18 . Kindertotenlieder (Arr. for Voice & Piano): No. 4, Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen (2:57)

19 . Kindertotenlieder (Arr. for Voice & Piano): No. 5, In diesem Wetter (6:04)

20 . Suo Gân (Arr. H. Watkins for Voice & Piano) (4:16)

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