I Wonder As I Wander / Newby, Middleton

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January 1, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      BEETHOVEN BRITTEN MAHLER
    • PERFORMER
      Newby, Middleton
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      January 01, 2021
    • UPC
      7318599924755
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2475
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Tom Bowling and Other Song Arrangements: No. 6. I wonder as I wander

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    2. Folk Song Arrangements, Vol. 3, "British Isles": No. 2. There's none to soothe

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    3. Der Wanderer, D. 489

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    4. Der Wanderer, Op. 65, No. 2, D. 649

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    5. Auf der Donau, Op. 21, No. 1, D. 553

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    6. Im Freien, D. 880

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    7. Abendstern (Evening Star), D. 806

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    8. Adelaide, Op. 46

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    9. 8 Songs, Op. 52: No. 4. Maigesang

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    10. No. 1. Auf dem Hügel sitz' ich, spähend

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    11. No. 2. Wo die Berge so blau

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    12. No. 3. Leichte Segler in den Höhen

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    13. No. 4. Diese Wolken in den Höhen

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    14. No. 5. Es kehret der Maien

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    15. No. 6. Nimm sie hin denn diese Lieder

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    16. Lieder und Gesänge aus der Jugendzeit, Book 3: No. 1. Zu Straßburg auf der Schanz'

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    17. No. 13. Revelge

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    18. No. 12. Urlicht

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    19. No. 5. At the mid hour of night

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    20. No. 9. The Last Rose of Summer

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton

    21. No. 2. Sail on, sail on

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: James Newby, Joseph Middleton


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.