Echo
Huw Watkins, Ruby Hughes
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Huw 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.
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 programme, three songs by contemporary British composers admired by both Watkins and Hughes also resonate with the previous works, bringing the programme full circle. © BIS Records
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Partita No. 4 in D major, BWV 828 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Gedenke doch, mein Geist, BWV 509 (Arr. B. Britten for Voice & Piano) (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
French Suite No. 3 in B minor, BWV 814 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Komm, süsser Tod, BWV 478 (Arr. B. Britten for Voice & Piano) (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Liebster Herr Jesu, wo bleibst du, BWV 484 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist - Christian Weselovius, Lyricist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Echo (Huw Watkins)
Christina Rossetti, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, Composer, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist
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Emily Dickinson, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, Composer, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist
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Philip Larkin, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, Composer, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
William Butler Yeats, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, Composer, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Huw Watkins, Composer, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist - David Harsent, Lyricist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
By Beauteous Softness (Arr. T. Adès for Voice & Piano) (Henry Purcell)
Thomas Ades, Arranger - Henry Purcell, Composer - Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist - Thomas Shadwell, Lyricist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Music for a While, Z. 583 (Arr. Sir M. Tippett & W. Bergmann for Voice & Piano) (Henry Purcell)
Henry Purcell, Composer - John Dryden, Lyricist - Sir Michael Tippett, Arranger - Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist - Walter Bergmann, Arranger
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
I Wonder as I Wander (Arr. B. Britten & J.J. Niles for Voice) (Traditional)
Traditional, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - John Jacob Niles, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Dafydd y Garreg Wen (Arr. B. Britten & C. Matthews for Voice & Piano) (Traditional)
Traditional, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - Colin Matthews, Arranger - Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist - John Ceiriog Hughes, Lyricist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4 (Traditional)
Traditional, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - Thomas Moore, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
The World (Deborah Pritchard)
Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist - Henry Vaughan, Lyricist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist - Deborah Pritchard, Composer
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Lament (Cheryl Frances-Hoad)
Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist - Andrew Motion, Lyricist - Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Composer
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Peace on Earth (Errollyn Wallen)
Huw Watkins, Artist, MainArtist - Errollyn Wallen, Composer, Lyricist - Ruby Hughes, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
Album Description
Huw 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.
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 programme, three songs by contemporary British composers admired by both Watkins and Hughes also resonate with the previous works, bringing the programme full circle. © BIS Records
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 19 track(s)
- Total length: 01:03:03
- Main artists: Huw Watkins Ruby Hughes
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: BIS
- Genre: Klassiek
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24-Bit 192.0 kHz - Stereo
(C) 2022 BIS (P) 2022 BIS
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