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 Â£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.

Tracklist:

Mahler: I Am Forgotten By This World
Duparc: Invitation to a Journey
Schumann: Gypsy Song I
Schumann: Gypsy Song II
Wolff: The Return of the Swallow
Schubert: Night Song of a Wanderer
Schumann: In a Foreign Land
Schumann: Intermezzo
Rachmaninoff: Don't Sing, Beautiful
Duparc: Past Lives
Schumann: Dialogue in the Forest
Schumann: Moonlit Night
Schubert: Lyre-Player I
Schubert: Lyre-Player II
Schubert: Lyre-Player III
Dong-Soo Sin: O Mountain!
Schumann: The Cowherd's Farewell
Duparc: Mignon's Romance
Schubert: The Wanderer
Schumann: The Beautiful Foreign Country
Schumann: Sorrow
Schumann: Spring Night
Tchaikovsky: Only Those Who Know Longing

UPC: 5065002228505
Label: Rubicon
Release Date: 10.27.23
Format: CD

IAN BOSTRIDGE - Homelands (CD)