Hugh Cutting – Refound [CD]

In his debut recital album, countertenor Hugh Cutting presents Refound with pianist Audrey Hyland. This programme revolves around songs that are the product of two roots, seen through two lenses. Cutting and Hyland build a recital celebrating rediscovery and reinterpretation, presenting songs that blend old and new in their construction, text, or context. It is a testament to the beauty of interpretation and revival. This theme unfolds in folk-inspired songs by Ravel and Vaughan Williams; ancient texts in Howells and Dvorak; an imagined past in Wolf and Hahn; emotional education in Beach, Rodrigo and Lama; Lehrer’s parody; the recently rediscovered Mel Bonis; Piers Connor Kennedy’s improvisation-adjacent Rough Rhymes (world premiere recording); and Jeremy Sams’ new translation of Schubert’s Abschied. Noted for his ‘exceptional voice, lustrous and rounded’ (The Times), Cutting is fast establishing a reputation for his narrative skill and vocal prowess. He cites Audrey Hyland, Head of Vocal and Opera at the Royal College of Music, as invaluable in his artistic development; Refound honours that relationship.

Tracklist:

1. Wait (No. 1 of Rough Rhymes)
2. Come sing and dance
3. rveil de la marie (No. 1 of Cinq Mlodies populaires grecques)
4. Quel galant m’est comparable (No. 3 of Cinq Mlodies populaires grecques)
5. Chanson des cueilleuses de lentisques (No. 4 of Cinq Mlodies populaires grecques)
6. Fureise (No. 10 of Mrike-Lieder)
7. Anakreons Grab (No. 29 of Goethe-Lieder)
8. Gesang Weylas (No. 46 of Mrike-Lieder)
9. tudes latines~No.
10. Nre
11. Hospodin jest muj pastyr (No. 4 of Biblical Songs, Op. 99)
12. Zpvejte Hospodinu psen novou (No. 10 of Biblical Songs, Op. 99)
13. Two Worlds (No. 2 of Rough Rhymes)
14. Linden Lea
15. soir, Op. posth. 77
16. year’s at the spring (No. 1 of Three Browning Songs, Op. 44)
17. Ah, love, but a day (No. 2 of Three Browning Songs, Op. 44)
18. Adela
19. Reginella
20. Trees (No. 3 of Rough Rhymes)
21. Poisoning pigeons in the park
22. World, farewell (Abschied von der Erde, D. 829)

UPC: 691062076425
Label: Linn Records
Release Date: 11.28.25
Format: CD