Mahler, Ives, Grime: Songs for New Life and Love / Hughes, Middleton

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BIS
Release Date
August 6, 2021
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      GRIME IVES MAHLER
    • PERFORMER
      Hughes, Middleton
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 06, 2021
    • UPC
      7318599924687
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2468
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    2. No. 2. Ging heut' morgen über's Feld

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    3. No. 3. Ich hab' ein glühend Messer

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    4. No. 4. Die zwei blauen Augen

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    5. The Housatonic at Stockbridge

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    6. Mists

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    7. No. 1. Soundings

      Composer: Helen Grime

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    8. No. 2. Brew

      Composer: Helen Grime

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    9. No. 3. Visitations

      Composer: Helen Grime

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    10. No. 4. Milk Fever

      Composer: Helen Grime

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    11. No. 5. Council Offices

      Composer: Helen Grime

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    12. Serenity

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    13. The Children's Hour

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    14. Songs my mother taught me

      Composer: Charles Ives

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    15. No. 1. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    16. No. 2. Nun seh' ich wohl

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    17. No. 3. Wenn dein Mütterlein

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    18. No. 4. Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    19. No. 5. In diesem Wetter!

      Composer: Gustav Mahler

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton

    20. Suo Gân (arr. H. Watkins for voice and piano)

      Composer: Traditional

      Performer: Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton


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.