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Songs from Our Ancestors
Ian Bostridge & Xuefei Yang
Celebrating the candlelit intimacy and storytelling environment of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, Songs from Our Ancestors marks the debut release of Globe Music, a new record label featuring special collaborations at Shakespeare's Globe.
Own: £7.9922 tracks (MP3 files)
| # | Track Title | Length | |
| 1 | In Darkness Let Me Dwell | Listen Listen | 03:28 |
| 2 | Come Again Sweet Love doth Now in | Listen Listen | 02:01 |
| 3 | White as Lillies Was Her Face | Listen Listen | 02:03 |
| 4 | My Thoughts Are Winged With Hope | Listen Listen | 01:30 |
| 5 | Flow My Tears | Listen Listen | 04:24 |
| 6 | Drunken Ecstasy | Listen Listen | 02:07 |
| 7 | The Second Lute Song for the Earl | Listen Listen | 03:53 |
| 8 | Flowing Water | Listen Listen | 06:21 |
| 9 | Ständchen | Listen Listen | 03:44 |
| 10 | Die Mainacht | Listen Listen | 01:56 |
| 11 | Der Konig im Der Thule | Listen Listen | 02:51 |
| 12 | An Die Musik | Listen Listen | 02:20 |
| 13 | Sword Dance | Listen Listen | 05:16 |
| 14 | Letters from Composers: Schubert | Listen Listen | 04:22 |
| 15 | Letters from Composers: Chopin | Listen Listen | 03:22 |
| 16 | Shuo Chang | Listen Listen | 06:45 |
| 17 | She Threw me a Quince | Listen Listen | 01:31 |
| 18 | Oh, You with the Blue Collar | Listen Listen | 03:31 |
| 19 | Plucking the Rushes | Listen Listen | 01:19 |
| 20 | Pastoral | Listen Listen | 01:33 |
| 21 | In the Tavern | Listen Listen | 00:49 |
| 22 | Lament | Listen Listen | 03:31 |
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Featuring two of today’s most imaginative artists, Songs from Our Ancestors epitomizes our ambition, merging trajectories of history, music and poetry in a thoughtful and eclectic journey that is personal as well as global.
Ian Bostridge here records these most famous of John Dowland’s lute songs for the very first time. Xuefei Yang records her own arrangements of some of the most storied melodies in Chinese history. Both perform new commissions by composers Stephen Goss and Chen Yi who have made outsized contributions to the modern classical guitar canon.
Dominick Argento and Xu Changjun add two additional names to a vibrant clutch of living composers – both keen teachers of history through their own attenuated global awareness of musical amalgamation.The result is a chronological investigation of musical histories that intersect both today and in the Ming Dynasty, Shakespeare’s own generation and the age that gave us the Jacobean indoor theatre.
‘Bridging the East-West classical divide: a trailblazing musical collaboration.’
- The Independent
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Welcome to Globe Music, a new record label from Shakespeare’s Globe
An extension of our candlelit concerts, this series seeks to capture the intimacy of music-making in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, London’s Jacobean-style jewel box theatre. In honour of music’s storytelling partnership with both our spaces, this series will highlight narrative journeys and interdisciplinary influences, capturing living stories through sound.
Recording
January & April 2016
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonProduced by Bill Barclay
Recording Engineers Steve Lowe and Sarah Weltman
Mixing Bill Barclay and Steve Lowe
Mastering Andrew Mellor
Music Coordinator James Maloney
Music Assistant Charlie LimmDesigned by Hannah Yates
Cover Photography Anne-Marie Bickerton
Booklet notes by Bill Barclay and where noted, Xuefei YangDominick Argento is published by Boosey & Hawkes
Stephen Goss is published by Doberman-Yppan
Chen Yi is published by Theodore Presser Co.Unless otherwise stated, Xuefei plays a guitar made by Greg Smallman
Special thanks
The Sydney Frank Foundation
Neil Muir, John Fraser, David Blake, Victoria Bevan and Steve Long
Phillippa Cole, Mary Donald and Melanie Moult for Askonas Holt
Emily Benson, Paul Russell and Rosie Townsend for Shakespeare’s GlobeTotal running time 69.49
Recorded at 24-bit / 96kHz resolution
Manufactured by B0D
© 2016 Shakespeare’s Globe Trading Limited -
‘Bridging the East-West classical divide: a trailblazing musical collaboration.’
- The Independent
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