I Wonder as I Wander James Newby & Joseph Middleton

• Benjamin Britten (1913 - 1976):
• 1 Britten: Tom Bowling & Other Song Arrangements: No. 6, I Wonder as I Wander 04:31
• 2 Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 3 "British Isles": No. 2, There's None to Soothe 01:54
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828):
• 3 Schubert: Der Wanderer, D. 489 05:42
• 4 Schubert: Der Wanderer, D. 649 03:04
• 5 Schubert: Auf der Donau, Op. 21 No. 1, D. 553 03:11
• 6 Schubert: Im Freien, Op. 80 No. 3, D. 880 05:38
• 7 Schubert: Abendstern, D. 806 02:57
• Ludwig van Beethoven (1770 - 1827):
• 8 Beethoven: Adelaide, Op. 46 05:25
• 9 Beethoven: 8 Songs, Op. 52: No. 4, Maigesang 02:10
• 10 Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98: No. 1, Auf dem Hügel sitz ich spähend 02:35
• 11 Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98: No. 2, Wo die Berge so blau 01:33
• 12 Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98: No. 3, Leichte Segler in den Höhen 01:31
• 13 Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98: No. 4, Diese Wolken in den Höhen 00:57
• 14 Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98: No. 5, Es kehret der Maien, es blühet die Au 02:33
• 15 Beethoven: An die ferne Geliebte, Op. 98: No. 6, Nimm sie hin denn, diese Lieder 04:22
• Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911):
• 16 Mahler: Lieder und Gesänge, Vol. 3: No. 10, Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz' 04:26
• 17 Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Version for Voice & Piano) [Excerpts]: No. 11a, Revelge 06:51
• 18 Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn (Version for Voice & Piano) [Excerpts]: No. 11, Urlicht 05:22
• Benjamin Britten:
• 19 Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4 "Moore's Irish Melodies" (Excerpts): No. 5, At the Mid Hour of Night 02:45
• 20 Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4 "Moore's Irish Melodies" (Excerpts): No. 9, The Last Rose of Summer 04:23
• 21 Britten: Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4 "Moore's Irish Melodies" (Excerpts): No. 2, Sail On, Sail On 03:10
• Total Runtime 01:15:00

Info for I Wonder as I Wander

When deciding on the repertoire for his début disc, James Newby’s first choice fell on An die ferne Geliebte, songs that he had been performing ever since the beginning of his career. But Beethoven’s song cycle – and perhaps even more so the quasi-operatic Adelaide – also sets a tone for the entire disc, that of longing and of wanting to be elsewhere, near the distant beloved. These are emotions that Schubert, perhaps more than any other composer, has plumbed in depth, and Newby went on to select five of his songs that in various ways depict the restlessness and loneliness of the eternal wanderer. Mahler is another composer who knew something about longing – for instance that it can be deadly, which he demonstrated with his Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz, in which a soldier awaits execution after trying to desert to his homeland while the piano imitates the muffled rolling of drums. The military theme continues in the high-strung Revelge, as a young soldier marches towards his death, thinking about his sweetheart with ever-greater desperation. The final song by Mahler, Urlicht, expresses the anguish and pain of earthly life, and the longing for Heaven and, in effect, death. Framing this programme with five folk song arrangements by Benjamin Britten, James Newby and Joseph Middleton explore Man’s never-ending search (geographical or psychological) for that distant object of desire: who, what or wherever it may be.

James Newby, baritone
Joseph Middleton, piano

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