Echo: Songs Across the Ages
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2568
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 25th November 2022
Contents
Works
French Suites (6), BWV812-817Spiritual Songs (5) (JS Bach)
The World
Music for a while, Z583 (arr. Michael Tippett, Walter Bergmann)
Now does the glorious day appear, Z332
Echo
Artists
Ruby Hughes (soprano)Huw Watkins (piano)
Works
French Suites (6), BWV812-817Spiritual Songs (5) (JS Bach)
The World
Music for a while, Z583 (arr. Michael Tippett, Walter Bergmann)
Now does the glorious day appear, Z332
Echo
Artists
Ruby Hughes (soprano)Huw Watkins (piano)
About
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 realisations of Bach’s Geistliche Lieder as well as the Purcell realisations 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 programme full circle.
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