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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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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Christian Weselovius, Lyricist
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Christina Rossetti, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, Composer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Emily Dickinson, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, Composer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Philip Larkin, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, Composer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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William Butler Yeats, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, Composer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Huw Watkins, Composer, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - David Harsent, Lyricist
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Thomas Ades, Arranger - Henry Purcell, Composer - Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Thomas Shadwell, Lyricist - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Henry Purcell, Composer - John Dryden, Lyricist - Sir Michael Tippett, Arranger - Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Walter Bergmann, Arranger
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Traditional, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - John Jacob Niles, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Traditional, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - Colin Matthews, Arranger - Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - John Ceiriog Hughes, Lyricist - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Traditional, Composer - Benjamin Britten, Arranger - Thomas Moore, Lyricist - Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Henry Vaughan, Lyricist - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Deborah Pritchard, Composer
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Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Andrew Motion, Lyricist - Cheryl Frances-Hoad, Composer
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Huw Watkins, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Errollyn Wallen, Composer, Lyricist - Ruby Hughes, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Album review
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
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Ruby Hughes Huw Watkins
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: BIS
- Genre: Classical
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