Shakespeare Songs
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FINZI / JOHNSON / WARLOCK / BRITTEN / MORLEY / etc
Shakespeare Songs
Ian Bostridge (tenor) Antonio Pappano (piano)
[ Warner Classics / CD ]
Release Date: Saturday 10 September 2016
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Grammy® Award winners Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano have been working together on the stage and in the recording studio for over 20 years. Together they have produced award-winning recordings and played sold out concert halls all over the world to huge critical acclaim. Now they embark on a project marking the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare with a new album out in September. Shakespeare Songs celebrates the four centuries of music and performance that his plays and sonnets have inspired.
Shakespeare's peerless feeling for the music of the English language has inspired countless composers, from those who set the Bard's verse during his lifetime to musicians as diverse as Britten, Finzi, Korngold and Stravinsky. Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano, together with four outstanding chamber musicians, delve into the rich Shakespeare legacy for this brand new recording, marking the playwright's quarter-centenary with a delectable programme of works written for Jacobean productions, Restoration revivals and the modern concert hall. As guests Ian has invited his friends the lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, and for Stravinsky's Three Songs flautist Adam Walker, violist Lawrence Power and clarinetist Michael Collins.
"This is worth having for the first track alone: an impeccable account of Finzi's Come Away, Death, with Ian Bostridge blending melancholy and nonchalance, Antonio Pappano accompanying with tender reticence...[Bostridge] squeezes every nuance of meaning from these Shakespeare settings." (The Guardian)
"he is one of the rare singers who really relish their own language...His range is immense: he is at his best in settings with lute accompaniment...Nothing is lovelier, or more touching, than When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy, which he closes with an exquisite diminuendo." (Sunday Times)
"Ever eloquent, Ian Bostridge pairs the English pastoral with which he began his recording career with songs by Stravinsky, Schubert and others in this tribute to the Bard." (Editor's Choice Gramophone Oct 2016)
"Throughout this beautifully curated disc, Bostridge reminds you why he is such a great recitalist." Recording of the Month MusicWeb Dec 2016
Tracks:
anon.:
When that I Was but a Little Tiny Boy
Britten:
Fancie
Byrd:
Callino casturame
Finzi:
Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18
Gurney:
Under the greenwood tree
Haydn:
She Never Told Her Love, Hob. XXVIa:34
Johnson, R:
Where the bee sucks
Full fathom five
Korngold:
Desdemona' Song (No. 1 from Four Shakespeare Songs Op. 31)
Adieu, good Man Devil (No. 2 from Songs of the Clown Op. 29)
Morley:
It was a lover and his lass
O mistress mine
It was a lover and his lass
Poulenc:
Fancy
Quilter:
Come away, death
Schubert:
An Sylvia, D891
Stravinsky:
Three Songs from William Shakespeare
Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Tippett:
Songs for Ariel
Warlock:
Pretty Ring Time
Sweet and twenty
Wilson, John:
Take, O take those lips away
