{"product_id":"echo-songs-across-the-ages","title":"Echo – songs across the ages - Ruby Hughes, Huw Watkins (Hybrid SACD)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eHuw Watkins’ song cycle Echo, composed for soprano Ruby Hughes and premiered in 2017 at Carnegie Hall, is at the centre of this artfully crafted recital. Setting texts by five different poets, the cycle is a work centred on melancholy – on transience, remembrance, and in the final song a numbed cry of inconceivable loss. As such it permeates the entire programme, adding a new and unexpected depth to that which precedes as well as follows.\u003cbr\u003eAnother 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.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBach, Johann Sebastian\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: V. Sarabande\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 1 Partita No. 4 in D Major, BWV 828: V. Sarabande 03:24\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBritten, Benjamin\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 5 Spiritual Songs: No. 1. Gedenke doch, mein Geist, zurücke (after J.S. Bach's BWV 509)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 2 5 Spiritual Songs: No. 1. Gedenke doch, mein Geist, zurücke (after J.S. Bach's BWV 509) 01:30\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBach, Johann Sebastian\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e French Suite No. 3 in B Minor, BWV 814: III. Sarabande\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 3 French Suite No. 3 in B Minor, BWV 814: III. Sarabande 01:44\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBritten, Benjamin\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 5 Spiritual Songs: No. 4. Komm, süsser Tod (after J.S. Bach's BWV 478)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 4 5 Spiritual Songs: No. 4. Komm, süsser Tod (after J.S. Bach's BWV 478) 03:05\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBach, Johann Sebastian\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830: III. Corrente\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 5 Partita No. 6 in E Minor, BWV 830: III. Corrente 02:42\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBritten, Benjamin\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWeselovius, Christian - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 5 Spiritual Songs: No. 3. Liebster Herr Jesu (after J.S. Bach's BWV 484)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 6 5 Spiritual Songs: No. 3. Liebster Herr Jesu (after J.S. Bach's BWV 484) 03:34\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWatkins, Huw\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDickinson, Emily - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eHarsent, David - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eRossetti, Christina - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eLarkin, Philip - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eYeats, William Butler - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Echo\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 7 No. 1. Echo 04:20\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 8 No. 2. For Each Ecstatic Instant 01:42\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 9 No. 3. If Grief Could Burn Out 03:29\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 10 No. 4. When You Are Old 02:19\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 11 No. 5. Baby Blue 03:08\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eAdès, Thomas\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eShadwell, Thomas - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 4 Songs: No. 1. By Beauteous Softness (After H. Purcell)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 12 4 Songs: No. 1. By Beauteous Softness (After H. Purcell) 04:41\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eTippett, Michael\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBergmann, Walter\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eDryden, John - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 7 Songs, Vol. 1: No. 5. Music for a While (After H. Purcell)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 13 7 Songs, Vol. 1: No. 5. Music for a While (After H. Purcell) 04:09\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBritten, Benjamin\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eTraditional - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements: No. 6. I Wonder as I Wander\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 14 Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements: No. 6. I Wonder as I Wander 04:45\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBritten, Benjamin\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMatthews, Colin - Arranger\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eTraditional - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e 8 Folk Song Arrangements: No. 6. Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock) (arr. C. Matthews for voice and piano)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 15 8 Folk Song Arrangements: No. 6. Dafydd y Garreg Wen (David of the White Rock) (arr. C. Matthews for voice and piano) 03:38\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eBritten, Benjamin\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMoore, Thomas - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4, \"Moore's Irish Melodies\": No. 3. How Sweet the Answer (The Wren)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 16 Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 4, \"Moore's Irish Melodies\": No. 3. How Sweet the Answer (The Wren) 02:30\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003ePritchard, Deborah\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eVaughan, Henry - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e The World\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 17 The World 04:07\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eFrances-Hoad, Cheryl\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eMotion, Andrew - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e Lament\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 18 Lament 03:23\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWallen, Errollyn\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eWallen, Errollyn - Lyricist\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e The Errollyn Wallen Songbook: No. 12. Peace on Earth\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 19 The Errollyn Wallen Songbook: No. 12. 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