Composer: Dominick Argento, Benjamin Britten, Xu Changjun, Chen Yi, John Dowland, Stephen Goss, Ruan Ji, Franz Peter Schubert
Performer: Ian Bostridge, Xuefei Yang
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Globe Music
Catalogue: GM-001
Release: 2016
Size: 979 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Dowland: Fourth Book of Songs
01. In darkness let me dwell
Dowland: First Book of Songs
02. Come again, sweet love doth now invite
Dowland: Second Book of Songs
03. White as lilies was her face
Dowland: First Book of Songs
04. My thoughts are winged with hopes
Dowland: Second Book of Songs
05. Flow, my tears, fall from your springs
06. Ji: Drunken Ecstasy (arr. Xuefei Yang for guitar)
Britten: Gloriana, Op. 53 (arr. J. Bream for voice and guitar)
07. The Second Lute Song of the Earl of Essex
08. anon.: Flowing Water (arr. Xuefei Yang for guitar)
Schubert: Schwanengesang, D957 (arr. for voice and guitar)
09. No. 4. Ständchen (Serenade)
10. Schubert: Die Mainacht, D. 194 (arr. for voice and guitar)
11. Schubert: Der König in Thule, D367
12. Schubert: An die Musik D547
13. Changjun: Sword Dance (arr. Xuefei Yang for guitar)
Argento: Letters from Composers
14. No. 3. Franz Schubert to a Friend
15. No. 1. Frederic Chopin to a Friend
16. Yi: Shuo Chang
Goss: The Book Of Songs
17. No. 1. She threw me a quince
18. No. 2. Oh, you with the blue collar
19. No. 3. Plucking the rushes
20. No. 4. Pastoral
21. No. 5. In the tavern
22. No. 6. Lament
Globe Music is a new record label from Shakespeare’s Globe that sets out to capture the intimacy of our candlelit concerts in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse. A 17th century-style jewel box theatre, one of the great revelations of the space when it opened in 2014 was the crystalline acoustic that has quickly established it a world class chamber music venue.
Our ambition for Globe Music is to bring together some of the world’s finest musicians in special, unexpected collaborations, to bottle a unique environment where music and the theatrical meet.
Our first release, Songs From Our Ancestors, features two of today’s most imaginative artists; tenor Ian Bostridge and guitarist Xuefei Yang. Their eclectic journey traces a poetic path through history and place that is both global and personal; from Shakespeare’s contemporary John Dowland, through Schubert, Britten and Chinese folk music, to contemporary composers Domenick Argento, Stephen Goss and Chen Yi.