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.

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22 tracks (MP3 files)

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#	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

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
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.

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Recording

January & April 2016
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
Shakespeare’s Globe, London

Produced 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 Limm

Designed by Hannah Yates
Cover Photography Anne-Marie Bickerton
Booklet notes by Bill Barclay and where noted, Xuefei Yang

Dominick 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 Globe

Total 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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Songs from Our Ancestors

Welcome to Globe Music, a new record label from Shakespeare’s Globe

Recording

Special thanks

Tell us what you think using #GlobeMusic

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