Echo – songs across the ages
- Release year
- 2022
- Label
- BIS
- Catalogue number
- BIS-2568 SACD
- Thomas Adès’s role
- Composer
Details and credits
Ruby Hughes (soprano), Huw Watkins (piano). Programme includes Bach keyboard pieces and Britten realisations, Watkins’s Echo, Purcell realisations by Adès and Tippett, Britten folksong arrangements, and songs by Deborah Pritchard, Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Errollyn Wallen. Track 12 is Purcell’s By Beauteous Softness in Thomas Adès’s realisation for voice and piano.
Release credits: Ruby Hughes; Huw Watkins
Thomas Adès: composer
Programme:
1. Johann Sebastian Bach: Sarabande (From Partita No. 4, BWV 828)
2. Johann Sebastian Bach: Gedenke Doch, Mein Geist, Zurücke
3. Johann Sebastian Bach: Sarabande (From French Suite No. 3, BWV 814)
4. Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm, Süsser Tod
5. Johann Sebastian Bach: Corrente (From Partita No. 6, BWV 830)
6. Johann Sebastian Bach: Liebster Herr Jesu
Huw Watkins: Echo (For Voice And Piano, 2017)
7. I. Echo
8. II. For Each Ecstatic Instant
9. III. If Grief Could Burn Out
10. IV. When You Are Old
11. V. Baby Blue
12. Henry Purcell: By Beauteous Softness
13. Henry Purcell: Music For A While
14. Traditional: I Wonder As I Wander (c. 1941)
15. Traditional: Dafydd y Garreg Wen
16. Traditional: How Sweet The Answer (The Wren)
17. Deborah Pritchard: The World (2021)
18. Cheryl Frances-Hoad: Lament (2012)
19. Errollyn Wallen: Peace On Earth (2006)
Credited participation:
Realization — By Beauteous Softness
Compositions
- By Beauteous Softness — 2017