Starter Packs

Complete your collection with these curated titles, grouped at a special discount.

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

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

$10.99
$21.99 Save 50%

Details

Composer
GRIME IVES MAHLER
Artist
Hughes, Middleton
Format
SACD
Label
BIS
Released
Aug 06, 2021
Catalog #
BIS-2468
UPC
7318599924687

About

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.

Tracklist 20 tracks

  1. 1 No. 1. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht 04:29
    Track
    1
    Title
    No. 1. Wenn mein Schatz Hochzeit macht
    Duration
    04:29
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  2. 2 No. 2. Ging heut' morgen über's Feld 04:53
    Track
    2
    Title
    No. 2. Ging heut' morgen über's Feld
    Duration
    04:53
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  3. 3 No. 3. Ich hab' ein glühend Messer 03:15
    Track
    3
    Title
    No. 3. Ich hab' ein glühend Messer
    Duration
    03:15
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  4. 4 No. 4. Die zwei blauen Augen 05:27
    Track
    4
    Title
    No. 4. Die zwei blauen Augen
    Duration
    05:27
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  5. 5 The Housatonic at Stockbridge 03:50
    Track
    5
    Title
    The Housatonic at Stockbridge
    Duration
    03:50
    Composer
    Charles Ives
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  6. 6 Mists 01:35
    Track
    6
    Title
    Mists
    Duration
    01:35
    Composer
    Charles Ives
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  7. 7 No. 1. Soundings 02:29
    Track
    7
    Title
    No. 1. Soundings
    Duration
    02:29
    Composer
    Helen Grime
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  8. 8 No. 2. Brew 02:18
    Track
    8
    Title
    No. 2. Brew
    Duration
    02:18
    Composer
    Helen Grime
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  9. 9 No. 3. Visitations 03:02
    Track
    9
    Title
    No. 3. Visitations
    Duration
    03:02
    Composer
    Helen Grime
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  10. 10 No. 4. Milk Fever 02:11
    Track
    10
    Title
    No. 4. Milk Fever
    Duration
    02:11
    Composer
    Helen Grime
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  11. 11 No. 5. Council Offices 04:06
    Track
    11
    Title
    No. 5. Council Offices
    Duration
    04:06
    Composer
    Helen Grime
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  12. 12 Serenity 02:07
    Track
    12
    Title
    Serenity
    Duration
    02:07
    Composer
    Charles Ives
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  13. 13 The Children's Hour 02:12
    Track
    13
    Title
    The Children's Hour
    Duration
    02:12
    Composer
    Charles Ives
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  14. 14 Songs my mother taught me 02:42
    Track
    14
    Title
    Songs my mother taught me
    Duration
    02:42
    Composer
    Charles Ives
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  15. 15 No. 1. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n 05:10
    Track
    15
    Title
    No. 1. Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
    Duration
    05:10
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  16. 16 No. 2. Nun seh' ich wohl 04:19
    Track
    16
    Title
    No. 2. Nun seh' ich wohl
    Duration
    04:19
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  17. 17 No. 3. Wenn dein Mütterlein 04:18
    Track
    17
    Title
    No. 3. Wenn dein Mütterlein
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  18. 18 No. 4. Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen 02:51
    Track
    18
    Title
    No. 4. Oft denk' ich, sie sind nur ausgegangen
    Duration
    02:51
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  19. 19 No. 5. In diesem Wetter! 05:55
    Track
    19
    Title
    No. 5. In diesem Wetter!
    Duration
    05:55
    Composer
    Gustav Mahler
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton
  20. 20 Suo Gân (arr. H. Watkins for voice and piano) 04:03
    Track
    20
    Title
    Suo Gân (arr. H. Watkins for voice and piano)
    Duration
    04:03
    Composer
    Traditional
    Performer
    Ruby Hughes, Joseph Middleton