Songs for New Life and Love Ruby Hughes & Joseph Middleton

• Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911): Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Version for Voice & Piano):
• 1 Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 1, Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht 04:29
• 2 Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 2, Ging heut' morgen über's Feld 04:53
• 3 Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 3, Ich hab' ein glühend Messer 03:15
• 4 Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Version for Voice & Piano): No. 4, Die zwei blauen Augen 05:27
• Charles Ives (1874 - 1954):
• 5 Ives: 114 Songs (Excerpts): No. 15, The Housatonic at Stockbridge 03:50
• 6 Ives: 114 Songs (Excerpts): No. 57, Mists 01:35
• Helen Grime (b. 1981): Bright Travellers:
• 7 Grime: Bright Travellers: No. 1, Soundings 02:29
• 8 Grime: Bright Travellers: No. 2, Brew 02:18
• 9 Grime: Bright Travellers: No. 3, Visitations 03:02
• 10 Grime: Bright Travellers: No. 4, Milk Fever 02:11
• 11 Grime: Bright Travellers: No. 5, Council Offices 04:06
• Charles Ives: 114 Songs (Excerpts):
• 12 Ives: 114 Songs (Excerpts): No. 42, Serenity 02:07
• 13 Ives: 114 Songs (Excerpts): No. 74, The Children's Hour 02:12
• 14 Ives: 114 Songs (Excerpts): No. 108, Songs My Mother Taught Me 02:42
• Gustav Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Arr. for Voice & Piano):
• 15 Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Arr. for Voice & Piano): No. 1, Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgehn 05:10
• 16 Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Arr. for Voice & Piano): No. 2, Nun seh' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen 04:19
• 17 Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Arr. for Voice & Piano): No. 3, Wenn dein Mütterlein 04:18
• 18 Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Arr. for Voice & Piano): No. 4, Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen 02:51
• 19 Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Arr. for Voice & Piano): No. 5, In diesem Wetter 05:55
• 20 Traditional: Suo Gân (Arr. H. Watkins for Voice & Piano) 04:03
• Total Runtime 01:11:12

Info for Songs for New Life and Love

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.

Ruby Hughes, soprano
Joseph Middleton, piano

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