Will Liverman Jonathan King – Whither Must I Wander (2020) FLAC

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An exquisite recital of songs on the theme of travel, given insightful, powerful interpretations by the American baritone Will Liverman and pianist Jon King.

‘Whither Must I Wander’ takes its name from one of the ‘Songs of Travel’ by Ralph Vaughan Williams, a song cycle that is at the heart of this release. From the trudging ‘Vagabond’ to the more playful ‘Roadside Fire’ and the radiance of ‘Youth and Love’, Vaughan Williams explores every bittersweet nuance of journeying.

The album also features the exhilarating vigour of Frederick Keel’s ‘Three Salt-Water Ballads’, and the magnificent ‘King David’ by Herbert Howells. We then travel from England across the Atlantic to hear American songs by Aaron Copland, with one of his ‘Old American Songs’, the serene ‘At the River’, and by contemporary composer Steve Mark Kohn, whose ‘Ten Thousand Miles Away’ uses traditional folk song to navigate the emotional strains of missing a loved-one far away.

Liverman and King end their recital with the Goethe-inspired ‘Wanderer’s Night Song’ by Russian composer Nikolai Medtner, and with the beautiful ‘Mondnacht’ by Robert Schumann.

Tracklist:
01. Songs of Travel, IRV 77: I. The Vagabond
02. Songs of Travel, IRV 77: II. Let Beauty Awake
03. Songs of Travel, IRV 77: III. Roadside Fire
04. Songs of Travel, IRV 77: IV. Youth and Love
05. Songs of Travel, IRV 77: V. In Dreams
06. Songs of Travel, IRV 77: VI. The Infinite Shining Heavens
07. Songs of Travel, IRV 77: VII. Whither Must I Wander
08. Songs of Travel, IRV 77: VIII. Bright is the Ring of Words
09. Songs of Travel, IRV 77: IX. I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope
10. Three Salt-Water Ballads : I. Port of Many Ships
11. Three Salt-Water Ballads : II. Trade Winds
12. Three Salt-Water Ballads : III. Mother Carey
13. King David
14. At the River
15. Ten Thousand Miles Away (Arr. Steven Mark Kohn)
16. Wanderer’s Night Song
17. Liederkreis, Op. 39, No. 5: Mondnacht

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