Homelands Ian Bostridge, Jennifer France, James Atkinson, Wonsick Oh, Aron Goldin

• Gustav Mahler (1860 - 1911): Rückert-Lieder:
• 1Mahler: Rückert-Lieder: No. 3, Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen06:12
• Henri Duparc (1848 - 1933): L'invitation au voyage:
• 2Duparc: L'invitation au voyage04:06
• Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856): Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79:
• 3Schumann: Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79: No. 7, Zigeunerliedchen I00:55
• 4Schumann: Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79: No. 8 Zigeunerliedchen II01:36
• Hugo Wolf (1860 - 1903): Der Schwalben Heimkehr:
• 5Wolf: Der Schwalben Heimkehr01:44
• Franz Schubert (1797 - 1828): Wandrers Nachtlied, D. 768:
• 6Schubert: Wandrers Nachtlied, D. 76802:09
• Robert Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39:
• 7Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 1, In der Fremde01:51
• 8Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 2, Intermezzo01:42
• Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873 - 1943): 6 Romances, Op. 4:
• 9Rachmaninoff: 6 Romances, Op. 4: No. 4, Do not sing to me, my beauty04:43
• Henri Duparc: La Vie Anterieure:
• 10Duparc: La Vie Anterieure04:42
• Robert Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39:
• 11Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39: No.3, Waldesgespräch02:14
• 12Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 5, Mondnacht03:45
• Franz Schubert: Gesänge des Harfners aus Wilhelm Meister, D. 478:
• 13Schubert: Gesänge des Harfners aus Wilhelm Meister, D. 478: I. Wer sich der Einsamkeit ergibt03:56
• 14Schubert: Gesänge des Harfners aus Wilhelm Meister, D. 478: II. Wer nie sein Brot mit Tränen ass04:29
• 15Schubert: Gesänge des Harfners aus Wilhelm Meister, D. 478: III. An die Türen will ich schleichen01:52
• Dong-Soo Shin (b. 1958): Oh Mountain!:
• 16Shin: Oh Mountain!03:58
• Robert Schumann: Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79:
• 17Schumann: Liederalbum für die Jugend, Op. 79: No. 23, Des Sennen Abschied02:10
• Henri Duparc: Romance de Mignon:
• 18Duparc: Romance de Mignon04:30
• Franz Schubert: Der Wanderer:
• 19Schubert: Der Wanderer05:22
• Robert Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39:
• 20Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 6, Schöne Fremde01:17
• 21Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 9, Wehmut02:14
• 22Schumann: Liederkreis, Op. 39: No. 12, Frühlingsnacht01:19
• Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840 - 1893): 6 Romances, Op. 6:
• 23Tchaikovsky: 6 Romances, Op. 6: No. 6, Nur wer die Sehnsucht kennt02:48
• Gabriel Fauré (1845 - 1924): Trois mélodies, Op. 23:
• 24Fauré: Trois mélodies, Op. 23: No. 1, Les berceaux02:38
• Total Runtime01:12:12

Info for Homelands

‘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 (including many favourites 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. This has been covered by the New York Times, The Times and CNN. The release of this album will elicit coverage in major media outlets.

Jennifer France, soprano
Ian Bostridge, tenor
James Atkinson, baritone
Wonsick Oh, bass
Aron Goldin, piano

Jennifer France
Winner of the 2018 Critics’ Circle Emerging Talent Award, British soprano Jennifer France was described in WhatsOnStage as the ‘living jewel in opera’s crown’.

Plans in the 23/24 season include two returns to the Royal Opera House for Iphis Jephtha cond. Laurence Cummings and Despina Così fan tutte cond. Alexander Soddy, and a return to the Bayerische Staatsoper for Ivette Die Passagierin cond. Jurowski. On the concert platform, Jennifer will sing Beethoven’s Mass in C with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Matthew Halls, Jonathan Dove’s There Was a Child with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Strauss’ Sechs Lieder with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Vasily Petrenko, Brett Dean’s Evolution Cantata with the Orchestre National de Lyon cond. Markus Stenz. George Benjamin’s A Mind of Winter with the Orchestre de Caen cond. Nicholas Simon, Brett Dean’s 2nd Quartet with the Doric String Quartet at the Wigmore Hall, Christmas concerts with the Royal Choral Society at the Royal Albert Hall & New Years Eve gala concerts with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra cond. Jiří Rožeň.

Ian Bostridge
Bostridge’s extraordinary international career has taken him to the foremost concert halls, orchestras and opera houses in the world. Synonymous with the works of Schubert and Britten, his recital career has taken him to the Salzburg, Edinburgh, Munich, Vienna, Aldeburgh and Schwarzenberg Schubertiade Festivals and to the main stages of Carnegie Hall, the Bayerische Staatsoper, La Monnaie and Teatro alla Scala. In opera, Ian has received particular praise for his interpretation of Aschenbach Death in Venice at the Deutsche Oper & Peter Quint The Turn of the Screw for Teatro alla Scala. His recordings have won all the major international record prizes and been nominated for 15 Grammys.

Highlights of the 23/24 season include artistic residencies for the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and as Duo Artist in Residence at LIED Basel with Julius Drake. His plans include Les Nuits d’Eté with Orchestre de Chambre du Luxembourg cond. Corinna Niemeyer, St Matthew Passion with Musikkollegium Winterthur cond. Roberto González-Monjas, with Capella Cracoviensis and with Wroclaw Baroque Orchestra cond. Jarosław Thiel, Les Illuminations with City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra cond. Madaras, Mendelssohn’s Lobgesang with Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León cond. Koncz and Evangelist St John Passion with Orchestre national d’Auvergne cond. Henri Chalet, alongside performances with Camerata Bern, the Oberon Trio at the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Les Talens Lyriques with Christophe Rousset at Trifolion Echternach and Compagnia di Punto at the Elbphilharmonie. Elsewhere, Ian undertakes a Japanese concert tour with the Sapporo Symphony Orchestra cond. Matthias Bamert, a Korean concert tour of Les Illuminations with the Sejong soloists and repeats his ‘Tormento d’amore’ programme on tour with Capella Neapolitana. Recitals for this season include appearances at the Wigmore Hall with Andreas Haefliger & Dame Imogen Cooper, the Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém with Luís Duarte, the Herbst Theatre and Music and Beyond Festival in Ottawa with Wenwen Du, Shanghai Symphony Hall, Juliusz Sowacki Theatre Krakow & the Beethovenhaus Bonn with Saskia Giorgini, the Settimane Musicali di Ascona Festival with Dame Imogen Cooper, as well as the Stadtkirch Brugg, Theatre Royal Bath, Istituzione Universitaria dei Concerti Rome, LIED Basel & on tour in Japan with long-time collaborator, Julius Drake.

James Atkinson
British baritone James Atkinson is a graduate of the Royal College of Music Opera Studio, where he studied with Alison Wells. From September 2023, James joins the BBC New Generation Artist scheme in conjunction with Radio 3. His many awards include the Royal Over-Seas League Singers’ Prize (2022), the Maureen Lehane Vocal Awards (2018), the Mozart Competition and the Audience Prize at the Somerset Song Prize (2019).

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