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德布西/馬勒等作曲家歌曲集 (我的日子結束了)
路比.修絲 女高音
曼徹斯特聯合樂團

A message of hope for difficult times

The inspiration for this album came about from Ruby Hughes' first collaboration with the Manchester Collective in the spring of 2020. During the first Covid lockdown, they built the programme of this recital for the purpose of touring the UK and uplifting their audiences at a time when we were all being confronted by challenging notions of mortality and isolation. As artists, they asked themselves what music might attend to the prevailing concerns of this time. Their answers came in the form of this offering. The title of this album, End of My Days, comes from Errollyn Wallen's song; a resounding celebration of life that embraces death without regret or sadness but with great verve and acceptance. The other songs, each in its own way, evoke silence and separation, but also love and hope and even the reassurance that we will return whence we came and light shall lift us into eternity. The concluding song, Deborah Pritchard's Peace, is a message of hope, willingly received as the world emerged out of lockdown in 2021. Luminous tranquillity moves us into the light, towards eternity.

1.Elias, B: Meet Me in the Green Glen 4:16
2.Shaw, C: Valencia 5:29
3.Vaughan Williams: Along the Field 4:20
Tavener: Akhmatova Songs7:20
4.I. Dante 2:50
5.III. Boris Pasternak 2:17
6.IV. Couplet 2:13
Dowland: Two Dowland Songs 11:01
7.Go Crystal Tears 3:57
8.Flow My Tears 7:04
9.trad.: Da Day Dawn 4:00
10.Ravel: Deux melodies hebraiques: Kaddisch 5:47
11.Wallen: End of My Days 5:24
Debussy: Trois chansons de Bilitis 9:55
12.I. La flute de Pan 2:54
13.II. La chevelure 3:56
14.III. Le tombeau des naiades 3:05
15.Mahler: Urlicht (Des Knaben Wunderhorn) 5:15
16.Pritchard, Deborah: Peace 3:13