Shakespeare songs / Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616, author.

Contributor:

Bostridge, Ian, singer.

Pappano, Antonio, 1959- instrumentalist.

Kenny, Elizabeth, instrumentalist.

Walker, Adam, 1987- instrumentalist.

Collins, Michael, 1962- instrumentalist.

Power, Lawrence, 1977- instrumentalist.

Wilson, Christopher R., 1952- writer of added commentary.

Language:

English

French

German

Subjects (All):

Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616--Musical settings.

Shakespeare, William.

Songs (High voice) with piano.

Songs (High voice) with lute.

Ayres.

Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble.

Genre:

Art music.

Songs.

Ayres.

Chamber music.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (66:54) : digital, CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

[France] : Warner Classics, [2016]

Language Note:

Sung in English.

System Details:

digital optical stereo

audio file

CD audio

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.

Contents:

Let us garlands bring / Gerald Finzi (15:07)

Caleno custure me / William Byrd [that is, anonymous] (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 / Thomas Morely [that is, Morley] (1:10)

Where the bee sucks (1:11) ; Full fathom five (3:22) / Robert Johnson

An Silvia : D891 / Franz Schubert (2:35)

She never told her love / Joseph Haydn (3:42)

Three Shakespeare songs : op. 6. 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 (3:07) ; Songs of the clown : op. 29. Come away, death (3:07); Adieu, good man devil (:44) / Erich Korngold

Fancie / Francis Poulenc (1:27)

Fancie / Benjamin Britten (:58)

Songs for Ariel / Michael Tippett (4:59)

Three songs from William Shakespeare / Igor Stravinsky (6:12)

When that I was and a little tiny boy / anonymous (2:29).

Participant:

Ian Bostridge, tenor ; with Antonio Pappano, piano (tracks 1-5, 12-25) ; Elizabeth Kenny, lute (tracks 6-11) ; and Adam Walker, flute ; Michael Collins, clarinet ; Lawrence Power, viola (tracks 26-28).

Notes:

Title from disc label.

Recorded 2016 February 7, 9-11 St Jude-on-the-Hill, London.

Program notes by Christopher R. Wilson in English with French and German translations, and texts in English with French and German translations (80 pages : portraits, illustrations) bound in container.

Contains:

Container of: Finzi, Gerald, 1901-1956. Let us garlands bring.

Container of: Morley, Thomas, 1557-1603?. Ayres. It was a lover and his lasse

Container of: Wilson, John, 1595-1674. Take, O take those lips away.

Container of: Morley, Thomas, 1557-1603?. Consort lessons. 19, O mistresse mine

Container of: Johnson, Robert, approximately 1583-1633. Where the bee sucks.

Container of: Johnson, Robert, approximately 1583-1633. Full fathom five.

Container of: Schubert, Franz, 1797-1828. An Sylvia. English.

Container of: Haydn, Joseph, 1732-1809. Canzonettas, voice, piano, 2nd set. She never told her love

Container of: Quilter, Roger, 1877-1953. Shakespeare songs, op. 6. Come away, death

Container of: Gurney, Ivor, 1890-1937. Elizabethan songs. Under the greenwood tree

Container of: Warlock, Peter, 1894-1930. Pretty ring time.

Container of: Warlock, Peter, 1894-1930. Sweet and twenty.

Container of: Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957. Songs to poems by Shakespeare. Desdemona's song

Container of: Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957. Songs of the clown. Come away, death

Container of: Korngold, Erich Wolfgang, 1897-1957. Songs of the clown. Adieu, good man devil

Container of: Poulenc, Francis, 1899-1963. Fancy.

Container of: Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976. Fancie.

Container of: Tippett, Michael, 1905-1998. Songs for Ariel.

Container of: Stravinsky, Igor, 1882-1971. Songs from William Shakespeare.

Container of: Vernon, Joseph, 1737 or 1738-1782. When that I was and a little tiny boy.

Container of: Calleno custure me.

ISBN:

9786316635884

6316635885

OCLC:

958854220

Publisher Number:

190295944735

00190295944735 gtin-14

0190295944735 Warner Classics (disc)

0825646106639 Warner Classics (container)

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