Refound

Beach, Amy, Bonis, Mel, Dvorak, Antonin, Hahn, Reynaldo, Howells, Herbert, Ravel, Maurice, Rodrigo, Joaquin, różni kompozytorzy, Schubert, Franz, Vaughan Williams, Ralph, Wolf, Hugo

Cutting, Hugh, Hyland, Audrey

CKD 764

In his debut recital album, countertenor Hugh Cutting presents Refound with pianist Audrey Hyland. This programme revolves around songs that are the product of two roots, seen through two lenses. Cutting and Hyland build a recital celebrating rediscovery and reinterpretation, presenting songs that blend old and new in their construction, text, or context. It is a testament to the beauty of interpretation and revival. This theme unfolds in folk-inspired songs by Ravel and Vaughan Williams; ancient texts in Howells and Dvořák; an imagined past in Wolf and Hahn; emotional education in Beach, Rodrigo and Lama; Lehrer’s parody; the recently rediscovered Mel Bonis; Piers Connor Kennedy’s improvisation-adjacent Rough Rhymes (world premiere recording); and Jeremy Sams’ new translation of Schubert’s Abschied. Noted for his ‘exceptional voice, lustrous and rounded’ (The Times), Cutting is fast establishing a reputation for his narrative skill and vocal prowess. He cites Audrey Hyland, Head of Vocal and Opera at the Royal College of Music, as invaluable in his artistic development; Refound honours that relationship.

Works:

•Kennedy, P C: Rough Rhymes: No. 1, Wait
•Howells: Come Sing and Dance
•Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
-No. 1, Le réveil de la mariée, M.A 9
-No. 3, Quel galant m’est comparable, M.A 4
-No. 4, Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques, M.A 5
•Wolf, H: Mörike-Lieder: No. 10, Fußreise
•Wolf, H: Goethe-Lieder: No. 29, Anakreons Grab
•Wolf, H: Mörike-Lieder: No. 46, Gesang Weylas
•Hahn, R: Études latines: No. 3, Néère
•Excerpt,Dvořák: Biblical Songs (10), Op. 99
-No. 4, Hospodin jest můj pastýř
-No. 10, Zpívejte Hospodinu píseň novou
•Kennedy, P C: Rough Rhymes: No. 2, Two Worlds
•Vaughan Williams: Linden Lea
•Bonis: Un soir, Op. Posth. 77
•Beach, A: Three Browning Songs, Op. 44
-No. 1, The Year’s at the Spring
-No. 2, Ah, Love, But a Day
•Rodrigo: 3 caniónes españolas: No. 1, Adela
•Lama, G: Reginella
•Kennedy, P C: Rough Rhymes: No. 3, Trees
•Tom Lehrer: Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
•Schubert: World, Farewell (After Abschied von der Erde, D. 829)

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Linn

3.11.2025

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