In his debut recital album, countertenor Hugh Cutting presents Refound with pianist Audrey Hyland. This programme revolves around songs that are the product of two roots, seen through two lenses. Cutting and Hyland build a recital celebrating rediscovery and reinterpretation, presenting songs that blend old and new in their construction, text, or context. It is a testament to the beauty of interpretation and revival. This theme unfolds in folk-inspired songs by Ravel and Vaughan Williams; ancient texts in Howells and Dvořák; an imagined past in Wolf and Hahn; emotional education in Beach, Rodrigo and Lama; Lehrer’s parody; the recently rediscovered Mel Bonis; Piers Connor Kennedy’s improvisation-adjacent Rough Rhymes (world premiere recording); and Jeremy Sams’ new translation of Schubert’s Abschied. Noted for his ‘exceptional voice, lustrous and rounded’ (The Times), Cutting is fast establishing a reputation for his narrative skill and vocal prowess. He cites Audrey Hyland, Head of Vocal and Opera at the Royal College of Music, as invaluable in his artistic development; Refound honours that relationship.
Tracklist
Total time: 56:15
1.
Rough Rhymes: No. 1, Wait
01:27
2.
Come Sing and Dance
03:53
3.
Cinq mélodies populaires grecques: No. 1, Le réveil de la mariée
01:19
4.
Cinq mélodies populaires grecques: No. 3, Quel galant m’est comparable
01:02
5.
Cinq mélodies populaires grecques: No. 4, Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques
03:13
6.
Mörike-Lieder: No. 10, Fußreise
02:38
7.
Goethe-Lieder: No. 29, Anakreons Grab
02:51
8.
Mörike-Lieder: No. 46, Gesang Weylas
01:47
9.
Études latines: No. 3, Néère
03:46
10.
Biblical Songs, Op. 99, B. 185: No. 4, Hospodin jest m?j pasty??
02:46
11.
Biblical Songs, Op. 99, B. 185: No. 10, Zpívejte Hospodinu píse? novou
01:51
12.
Rough Rhymes: No. 2, Two Worlds
02:48
13.
Linden Lea
02:25
14.
Un soir, Op. Posth. 77
02:48
15.
Three Browning Songs, Op. 44: No. 1, The Year’s at the Spring:
01:00
16.
Three Browning Songs, Op. 44: No. 2, Ah, Love, But a Day
03:17
17.
Adela
02:43
18.
Reginella
03:14
19.
Rough Rhymes: No. 3, Trees
05:42
20.
Poisoning Pigeons in the Park
02:15
21.
World, Farewell (After Abschied von der Erde, D. 829)
03:30
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In his debut recital album, countertenor Hugh Cutting presents Refound with pianist Audrey Hyland. This programme revolves around songs that are the product of two roots, seen through two lenses. Cutting and Hyland build a recital celebrating rediscovery and reinterpretation, presenting songs that blend old and new in their construction, text, or context. It is a testament to the beauty of interpretation and revival. This theme unfolds in folk-inspired songs by Ravel and Vaughan Williams; ancient texts in Howells and Dvořák; an imagined past in Wolf and Hahn; emotional education in Beach, Rodrigo and Lama; Lehrer’s parody; the recently rediscovered Mel Bonis; Piers Connor Kennedy’s improvisation-adjacent Rough Rhymes (world premiere recording); and Jeremy Sams’ new translation of Schubert’s Abschied. Noted for his ‘exceptional voice, lustrous and rounded’ (The Times), Cutting is fast establishing a reputation for his narrative skill and vocal prowess. He cites Audrey Hyland, Head of Vocal and Opera at the Royal College of Music, as invaluable in his artistic development; Refound honours that relationship.