Day of These Days: The British Isles Reflected in Song

‘Such a morning it is,’ wrote Laurie Lee – and this album, taking its title from his poem, is rooted in such particular moments of lived experience, capturing that fleeting, introspective British light. Bass-baritone Tristan Hambleton and pianist Simon Lepper create a landscape of songs by Britten, Sally Beamish, Judith Weir, Huw Watkins, Tarik O’Regan, Errollyn Wallen and others, many in first recordings, drawn together by themes of time, loss and uncertain footing. Recorded with a close, inward focus, voice and piano search not for display but for connection – a meditation on being, and on what it means, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s words, ‘to know not how it is with you’.

1: Evening
2: Morning
3: Night
4: Nocturne
5: Day of These Days
6: Sonnet 116
7: By Beauteous Softness
8: Full Fathom Five
9: Thy Hand in Mine
10: Come to Me in My Dreams
11: Adoration
12: In the Attic
13: To Whom It May Concern
14: What Language to Speak
15: The Silver Swan
16: Look Down, Fair Moon
17: Clown in the Moon
18: Full Moon and Little Frieda
19: I Know Not How It Is With You
20: Scots Song
21: There's None to Soothe
22: My Feet May Take a Little While

Composer: Sally Beamish, Errollyn Wallen, Benjamin Britten, Stuart MacRae, Huw Watkins, Richard Sisson, James MacMillan, Tarik O'Regan, Judith Weir, Frank Bridge, Henry Purcell

Number of Discs: 1

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