| Description |
1 audio disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Playing Time |
010654 |
| Description |
digital optical stereo rda |
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audio file CD audio |
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tenor voice 1 piano 1 2 lcmpt |
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tenor voice 1 lute 1 2 lcmpt |
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tenor voice 1 flute 1 clarinet 1 viola 1 4 lcmpt |
| Contents |
Let us garlands bring. Come away, come away, death (3:39) ; Who is Sylvia? (1:27) ; Fear no more the heat o' the sun (5:33) ; O mistress mine (1:53) ; It was a lover and his lass (2:33) / Gerald Finzi -- Caleno custure me / William Byrd (3:20) -- It was a lover and his lass / Thomas Morley (3:26) -- Take, O take those lips away / John Wilson (2:11) -- O mistress mine / Morely (1:10) -- Where the bee sucks (1:11) ; Full fathom five (3:22) / Robert Johnson -- An Silvia : D. 891 / Franz Schubert (2:35) -- She never told her love / Joseph Haydn (3:42) -- Come away, death / Roger Quilter (2:51) -- Under the greenwood tree / Ivor Gurney (1:34) -- Pretty ring time (1:17) ; Sweet and twenty (1:20) / Peter Warlock -- Four Shakespeare songs, op. 31. Desdemona's song / Erich Korngold (3:07) -- Songs of the clowm, op. 29. Come away, death (2:25) ; Adieu, good man devil (0:44) / Erich Korngold -- Fancie / Francis Poulenc (1:27) -- Fancie / Benjamin Britten (:58) -- Songs for Ariel. Come unto these yellow sands (153) ; Full fathom five (2:05) ; Where the bee sucks (0:59) / Michael Tippett -- Three songs from William Shakespeare. Musick to heare (2:52) ; Full fadom five (2:04) ; Spring (When daisies pied) (2:15) / Igor Stravinsky -- When that I was and a little tiny boy / anonymous (2:29). |
| Performer |
Ian Bostridge, tenor ; with Antonio Pappano, piano (1st, 8th-19th works) ; Elizabeth Kenny, lute (2nd-7th works) ; Adam Walker, flute (20th work) ; Michael Collins, clarinet (20th work) ; Lawrence Power, viola (20th work). |
| Summary |
A collection of some of the greatest settings of the words of Shakespeare, ranging from composers of the time such as Robert Johnson and William Byrd, eighteenth and nineteenth century songs by Haydn, Arne, and Schubert, through to the twentieth century settings by Warlock, Poulenc, Finzi, Korngold, and Stravinsky. |
| Language |
Sung in English. |
| Subject |
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Musical settings.
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Songs (High voice)
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Classical.
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| Genre/Form |
Songs.
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Art music.
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Sound recordings.
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| Added Author |
Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956.
Let us garlands bring.
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Byrd, William, 1539 or 1540-1623.
Callino casturame.
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Morley, Thomas, 1557-1603?
Ayres. It was a lover and his lasse.
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Wilson, John, 1595-1674.
Take, O take those lips away.
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Morley, Thomas, 1557-1603?
Consort lessons. 19, O mistresse mine.
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Johnson, Robert, approximately 1583-1633.
Where the bee sucks.
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Johnson, Robert, approximately 1583-1633.
Full fathom five.
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Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828.
An Sylvia.
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Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809.
Canzonettas, voice, piano, 2nd set. She never told her love.
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Quilter, Roger, 1877-1953.
Shakespeare songs, op. 6. Come away, death.
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Gurney, Ivor, 1890-1937.
Elizabethan songs. Under the greenwood tree.
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Warlock, Peter, 1894-1930.
Pretty ring time.
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Warlock, Peter, 1894-1930.
Sweet and twenty.
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Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957.
Songs to poems by Shakespeare. Desdemona's song.
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Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957.
Songs of the clown. Come away, death.
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Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957.
Songs of the clown. Adieu, good man devil.
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Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963.
Fancy.
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Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976.
Fancie.
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Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998.
Songs for Ariel.
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Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971.
Songs from William Shakespeare.
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Pappano, Antonio, 1959- instrumentalist. Instrumentalist.
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Kenny, Elizabeth, instrumentalist. Instrumentalist.
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| Standard No. |
190295944735 |
| ISBN |
9786316635884 |
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6316635885 |
| Music No. |
557549 Warner Classics |
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WCL557549 Warner Classics |
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