Clytemnestra / Hughes, Steen, BBC National Orchestra of Wales

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BIS
Release Date
January 3, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BERG MAHLER SAMUEL
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Bbc National Orchestra Of Wales
    • PERFORMER
      Hughes, Steen
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 03, 2020
    • UPC
      7318599924083
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2408
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 3. Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    2. No. 4. Ich atmet' einen linden Duft

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    3. No. 5. Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    4. No. 6. Um Mitternacht

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    5. No. 7. Liebst du um Schönheit

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    6. No. 1. Seele, wie bist du schöner

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    7. No. 2. Sahst du nach dem Gewitterregen den Wald?

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    8. No. 3. Über die Grenzen des All

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    9. No. 4. Nichts ist gekommen

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    10. No. 5. Hier ist Friede

      Composer: Alban Berg

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    11. I. The Chain of Flame

      Composer: Rhian Samuel

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    12. II. Lament for his Absence

      Composer: Rhian Samuel

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    13. III. Agamemnon's Return -

      Composer: Rhian Samuel

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    14. IV. The Deed

      Composer: Rhian Samuel

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    15. V. Confession

      Composer: Rhian Samuel

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    16. VI. Defiance

      Composer: Rhian Samuel

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen

    17. VII. Epilogue: Dirge

      Composer: Rhian Samuel

      Ensemble: BBC National Orchestra of Wales

      Performer: Ruby Hughes

      Conductor: Jac van Steen


In 2015, when Ruby Hughes discovered Clytemnestra by the Welsh composer Rhian Samuel, the work had not been performed since its première some 20 years earlier. Hughes describes the 24-minute score as ‘sun-scorched and luscious’ as well as ‘intensely visceral’, but in it she also heard echoes of Gustav Mahler and Alban Berg, two of Samuel’s influences. For her first album as soloist with orchestra, she has therefore devised a programme which brings together the three composers but which also spans a wide range of emotions and moods. For his Rückert-Lieder, Mahler selected five highly intimate and subtle poems by the great Romantic poet Friedrich Rückert, using his large orchestral forces sparingly in a chamber music style. Ten years later, in 1911, Berg found his texts closer at hand as he set contemporary poems by Peter Altenberg, one of the main proponents of Viennese impressionism. Berg's advanced harmonic language caused a scandal at the first performance in 1913, and the songs were only performed in their entirety in 1952, sixteen years after Berg’s death. For Clytemnestra, finally, Rhian Samuel assembled her own text, based on Aeschylus' tragedy Agamemnon and focusing Clytemnestra’s deep anguish at the death of her daughter and her need for revenge. Bringing this wide spectrum of human emotions to life, Ruby Hughes is supported by the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and conductor Jac van Steen.