Offer,Echo
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
Watkins’s cycle shares Britten’s ability to meld text and musical gesture with an acuity seemingly effortless, almost plucked ready-formed out of the air...An exquisite release touched with... — More…
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Presto Editor's ChoiceNovember 2022
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BBC Music MagazineFebruary 2023Recording of the Month
Contents
Excerpt,
- Huw Watkins (piano)
V. Sarabande
Bach, J S: Gedenke doch, mein Geist, BWV509
- Arr. B. Britten for Voice & Piano
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
Excerpt,
- Huw Watkins (piano)
III. Sarabande
Bach, J S: Komm süsser Tod, BWV478
- Arr. B. Britten for Voice & Piano
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
Excerpt,
- Huw Watkins (piano)
III. Corrente
Bach, J S: Liebster Herr Jesu! wo bleibest du so lange?, BWV484
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
Watkins, H: Echo
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
I. Echo
II. For Each Ecstatic Instant
III. If Grief Could Burn Out
IV. When You Are Old
V. Baby Blue
Purcell: By beauteous softness (from Now does the glorious day appear, Z332)
- Arr. T. Adès for Voice & Piano
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
Purcell: Music for a while, Z583
- Arr. Sir M. Tippett & W. Bergmann for Voice & Piano
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
trad.: I wonder as I wander
- Arr. B. Britten & J.J. Niles for Voice
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
trad.: Dafydd y Garreg Wen
- Arr. B. Britten & C. Matthews for Voice & Piano
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
trad.: Folksong Arrangements, Vol. 4
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
How Sweet the Answer (The Wren)
Pritchard, Deborah: The World
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
Frances-Hoad: Lament
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)
Wallen: Peace on earth
- Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano)