J.S. Bach / Hoad/ Pritchard/ Ruby Hughes - Echo songs across the ages Release:Echo songs across the ages Bis GRAMMY Award winning American soprano

GRAMMY Award winning American soprano Susan Narucki

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J.S. Bach / Hoad/ Pritchard/ Ruby Hughes - Echo songs across the ages Release:Echo songs across the ages Bis GRAMMY Award winning American sopranoHuw Watkins' song cycle Echo, composed for soprano Ruby Hughes and premiered in 2017 at Carnegie Hall, is at the center of this artfully crafted recital. Setting texts by five different poets, the cycle is a work centered on melancholy on transience, remembrance, and in the final song a numbed cry of inconceivable loss. As such it permeates the entire program, adding a new and unexpected depth to that which precedes as well as follows. Another strand