Ian Bostridge - Homelands (CD)

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 (include many favorites 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.

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. Mahler: I Am Forgotten By This World
2. Duparc: Invitation to a Journey
3. Schumann: Gypsy Song I
4. Schumann: Gypsy Song II
5. Wolff: The Return of the Swallow
6. Schubert: Night Song of a Wanderer
7. Schumann: In a Foreign Land
8. Schumann: Intermezzo
9. Rachmaninoff: Don't Sing, Beautiful
10. Duparc: Past Lives
11. Schumann: Dialogue in the Forest
12. Schumann: Moonlit Night
13. Schubert: Lyre-Player I
14. Schubert: Lyre-Player II
15. Schubert: Lyre-Player III
16. Dong-Soo Sin: O Mountain!
17. Schumann: The Cowherd's Farewell
18. Duparc: Mignon's Romance
19. Schubert: The Wanderer
20. Schumann: The Beautiful Foreign Country
21. Schumann: Sorrow
22. Schumann: Spring Night
23. Tchaikovsky: Only Those Who Know Longing
24. Fauré: The Cradle