Tristan Hambleton, Simon Lepper - Day of These Days: The British Isles Reflected in Song (2026) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. This Way to the Tomb: I. Evening
02. This Way to the Tomb: II. Morning
03. This Way to the Tomb: III. Night
04. On This Island, Op. 11: No. 4, Nocturne
05. Day of These Days
06. Sonnet 116
07. By beauteous softness (Arr. for Voice and Piano by Thomas Adès)
08. Full fathom five (Arr. for Voice and Piano by Thomas Adès)
09. Thy hand in mine, H. 124
10. Come to me in my dreams, H. 71
11. Adoration, H. 57
12. Three Motion Settings: I. In the Attic
13. Three Motion Settings: II. To Whom It May Concern
14. Three Motion Settings: III. What language to speak
15. The Silver Swan
16. Look Down, Fair Moon: I. Look Down, Fair Moon
17. Look Down, Fair Moon: III. Clown in the Moon
18. Look Down, Fair Moon: V. Full Moon and Little Frieda
19. I know not how it is with you (from songs of Travel)
20. Scots Song
21. There’s none to soothe (Arr. for Voice and Piano by Benjamin Britten)
22. My feet may take a little while

‘Such a morning it is,’ wrote Laurie Lee – and this album, taking its title from his poem, is rooted in such particular moments of lived experience, capturing that fleeting, introspective British light. Bass-baritone Tristan Hambleton and pianist Simon Lepper create a landscape of songs by Britten, Sally Beamish, Judith Weir, Huw Watkins, Tarik O’Regan, Errollyn Wallen and others, many in first recordings, drawn together by themes of time, loss and uncertain footing. Recorded with a close, inward focus, voice and piano search not for display but for connection – a meditation on being, and on what it means, in Robert Louis Stevenson’s words, ‘to know not how it is with you’.

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