Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg & Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann — Amidst the Shades

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This haunting and beautifully planned album brings together several of the very best British song writers, from Shakespeare’s England to three of the nation’s current leading women composers. Singing all these with plangent and intense expressiveness is Welsh soprano Ruby Hughes. Hughes begins with a selection of John Dowland’s evergreen songs. In contrast to “Come again, sweet love”, full of a delicious yearning, Hughes gives an appropriately tart edge to “Can she excuse”, with lutenist Jonas Nordberg providing its ear-catching accompaniment with its rollicking rhythms. But it is with “Time stands still”, a song which truly lives up to its title in Hughes’ rapt performance, when it becomes clear this album is quite special. So begins this captivating recital, which artfully modulates from the England of Elizabeth I to that of Elizabeth II, smoothly transitioning through Purcell to Britten, and then to new works by Errollyn Wallen (Master of the King’s Music), Cheryl Frances-Hoad and Deborah Pritchard. Along the way, Nordberg takes the spotlight with stylish renderings of character pieces by Dowland, and the gravely beautiful “Last will and testament” by the lesser-known Anthony Holborne. Another fine instrumentalist, Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann on viola da gamba, joins Hughes and Nordberg to add an appropriately doleful tone to the three <i>Funeral Tears</i> by John Danyel, lutenist to Elizabeth I. The viola da gamba gives continuity as the programme jumps two generations forward to Henry Purcell, for whose song “Amidst the shades” Hughes taps a yet richer expressive seam.

Артист

Ruby Hughes, Jonas Nordberg & Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann

Треки

  1. Come again, sweet love doth now invite 4:18
  2. Can she excuse my wrongs? 2:25
  3. Time stands still 4:44
  4. The Second Booke of Songs or Ayres: Flow, my tears 4:32
  5. Lord Strangs' March 1:40
  6. Mrs Winter's Jump 1:37
  7. Care charminge sleepe 3:52
  8. Where the bee sucks 1:22
  9. Full fathom five 2:59
  10. Last will and testament 5:45
  11. Mrs. M. E. her funeral tears for the death of her husband: I. Grief, keep within 2:43
  12. Mrs. M. E. her funeral tears for the death of her husband: II. Drop not, mine eyes 2:44
  13. Mrs. M. E. her funeral tears for the death of her husband: III. Have all our passions? 2:48
  14. Love's farewell 4:28
  15. Amidst the shades 3:59
  16. O Solitude 6:24
  17. Welcome to All the Pleasures, Z. 339: Here the deities approve 3:42
  18. Sweeter than roses 3:39
  19. A Boy Was Born, Op. 3: Corpus Christi Carol (arr. for lute by Jonas Nordberg) 3:15
  20. The shadow of my sorrow 3:06
  21. Ophelia's Songs: I. How should I your true love know 2:15
  22. They bore him bare-faced on the bier (arr. for lute by Jonas Nordberg) 3:59
  23. Ophelia's Songs: II. Will he not come again 2:02