Ian Bostridge - Homelands - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Homelands is a powerful album of classical art song about exile. Featuring Ian Bostridge, Jennifer France, James Atkinson, Wonsick Oh, and pianist Aron Goldin, who curated the project. The songs (include many favorites by Tchaikovsky and Faure) are on the theme of exile and yearning for home. A performance of Homelands at the Royal Academy of Music in London on World Refugee Day in June 2022, with Olivier Award, Bafta and Tony Award winning actor Sir Simon Russell Beal reading poems by Auden, Brecht and Carol Ann Duffy with ancient Hebrew and Chinese poetry raised over £200,000 for the 30 Birds Foundation, a charity that enabled 500 Afghan school girls to escape the Taliban and fly from Kabul to Canada. Album Tracks 1. Mahler I Am Forgotten By This World 2. Duparc Invitation to a Journey 3. Schumann Gypsy Song I 4. Schumann Gypsy Song II 5. Wolff The Return of the Swallow 6. Schubert Night Song of a Wanderer 7. Schumann In a Foreign Land 8. Schumann Intermezzo 9. Rachmaninoff Don't Sing, Beautiful 10. Duparc Past Lives 11. Schumann Dialogue in the Forest 12. Schumann Moonlit Night 13. Schubert Lyre-Player I 14. Schubert Lyre-Player II 15. Schubert Lyre-Player III 16. Dong-Soo Sin O Mountain! 17. Schumann The Cowherd's Farewell 18. Duparc Mignon's Romance 19. Schubert The Wanderer 20. Schumann The Beautiful Foreign Country 21. Schumann Sorrow 22. Schumann Spring Night 23. Tchaikovsky Only Those Who Know Longing 24. Fauré The Cradle