LET BEAUTY AWAKE ENGLISH SONG RECITAL VAUGHAN WILLIAMS • GLICK • BOWLES • BARBER Joshua Hopkins baritone Jerad Mosbey piano ACD2 2615 • Winner of the 2006 Borletti-Buitoni Trust Award and the Verbier Festival Academy's 2008 Prix d'Honneur, Joshua Hopkins has been hailed as “…an outstanding young baritone with a virile, vigorous yet velvety sound and an immediately evident dramatic authority.”   Mr. Hopkins has signed an exclusive recording contract with ATMA Classique and his first solo recital recording on the label includes English language songs by Vaughan Williams, Glick, Bowles and Barber. • This vocal recital features four contrasting and highly individual twentieth-century song cycles.   Though apparently unconnected, Vaughan Williams' landmark Songs of Travel (1904/1960), Srul Irving Glick's South of North-Images of Canada (1998), Paul Bowles' Blue Mountain Ballads (1946/1979), and Samuel Barber's Three Songs, Opus 45 (1972/1974) are united by the English language and by a strong sense of place and, more specifically, by the underlying presence of nature.   All the works explore, to differing extents, man's various relationships with the nature that surrounds him; from man observing nature to man interacting with it.   The songs not only reflect the musical landscapes of three countries and two continents but individually they depict the voyage af a man who adapts to and expresses his love for the natural landscape he inhabits. RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS [1872-1958] Songs of Travel POEM | POEME: ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON [1850-1894]   1. The Vagabond     [3:09]   2. Let Beauty Awake     [1:59]   3. The Roadside Fire     [2:17]   4. Youth and Love     [3:22]   5. In Dreams     [2:49]   6. The Infinite Shining Heavens     [2:12]   7. Whither must I Wander     [4:09]   8. Bright is the Ring of Words     [1.35]   9. I Have Trod the Upward and the Downward Slope     [2:12] SRUL IRVING GLICK [1934-2002] South of North - Images of Canada POEM | POEME: RICHARD OUTRAM [1930-2005] 10. Wilderness on Centre Island     [1:56] 11. Vane     [1:22] 12. Grace     [2:36] 13. Northern River Falls     [2.32] 14. Privity     [3:13] 15. Stripe     [0:58] 16. Congregation At The Shoreline     [2:21] 17. Windmill     [1:58] PAUL BOWLES [1910-1999] Blue Mountain Ballads POEM | POEME: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS [1911-1983] 18. Heavenly Grass     [2:07] 19. Lonesome Man     [1:18] 20. Cabin     [1:42] 21. Sugar in the Cane     [1:31] SAMUEL BARBER [1910-1981] Three Songs, Op. 45 22. Now Have I Fed and Eaten up the Rose     [2:07] POEM | POEME: JAMES |OYCE [1882-1941] (FROM THE GERMAN OF GOTTFRIED KELLER) 23. A Green Lowland of Pianos     [2:08] POEM | POEME: CZESLAW MILOSZ [1911-2004] (FROM THE POLISH OF JERZY HARASYMOWICZ) 24. O Boundless, Boundless Evening     [3:32] POEM | POEME: CHRISTOPHER MIDDLETON [l926] (FROM THE GERMAN OF GEORGE HEYM) ATMA Classique is distributed in Australia by Rockian Trading PO Box 44, Briar Hill, Vic, 3088, Australia Telephone +61 (0)3 9432 4149 ~ Facsimile +61 (0)3 9444 6879