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Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook
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Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook
Composers
Arne, Thomas Augustine
Beach, Amy
Bridge, Frank
Britten, Benjamin
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
Cornelius, Peter
Dankworth, John
Dring, Madeleine
Frances-Hoad, Cheryl
Gurney, Ivor
Haydn, Joseph
Honegger, Arthur
Horder, Mervyn
Ireland, John
Kendall, Hannah
Moeran, Ernest John
Parry, C. H. H.
Poulenc, Francis
Schubert, Franz
Schumann, Robert
Smith, John Christopher
Sullivan, Sir Arthur
Tippett, Sir Michael
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Williams, Roderick
Wolf, Hugo
Genres
Songs
Performers
Middleton, Joseph
Sampson, Carolyn
Williams, Roderick
Label
BIS
Catalogue number
BIS-2653 SACD
Release date
2023-08-04
Discs
1
Orig. sample rate
192000Hz
Total time
85:13
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The 37 songs in this recital, written by 27 composers – male, female, English, French, Swiss, German, Romantic, modern and contemporary – bear witness to the richness of Shakespeare’s works to which this recital is dedicated.
Organised in the form of a play in five acts, including prologue and epilogue, the songs, which include several duets, are in turn cheerful and sad, light and profound, classical and jazzy – thus allowing, in Carolyn Sampson’s words, ‘a breadth of responses to these great texts’. Alongside well-known melodies, such as those by Schubert, there are musical adaptations by different composers of the same texts, as well as a contemporary reflection for the two voices by Hannah Kendall exploring the question of gender fluidity and identity through the elusive character of Rosalind from As You Like It.
After many acclaimed releases on BIS, including Album für die Frau, a collection of songs by Clara and Robert Schumann, A Soprano’s Schubertiade and Elysium, two Schubert recitals, as well as a number of themed recitals, some of which were named ‘Recording of the Month’ by MusicWeb International and ‘CD-Tipp’ by BR Klassik, Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton are joined here by renowned British baritone Roderick Williams.
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Composer: Ireland, John
01
Full fathom five
01:20
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Composer: Vaughan Williams, Ralph
02
Dirge for Fidele
04:01
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Composer: Moeran, Ernest John
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The Lover and his Lass
01:47
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Composer: Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
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Arise
01:29
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Composer: Smith, John Christopher
05
You Spotted Snakes
01:58
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Composer: Tippett, Sir Michael
Three Songs for Ariel
05:10
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1. Come unto these Yellow Sands
01:58
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2. Full Fathom Five
01:57
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3. Where the Bee Sucks
01:15
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Composer: Arne, Thomas Augustine
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Under the Greenwood Tree
02:20
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Composer: Gurney, Ivor
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Under the Greenwood Tree
01:46
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Composer: Parry, Hubert
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Sonnet LXXXVII
03:35
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Composer: Ireland, John
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When Daffodils Begin to Peer
02:09
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Composer: Haydn, Joseph
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She never told her love, Hob.XXVIa No. 34
04:03
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Composer: Schubert, Franz
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An Silvia, D 106
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Ständchen (Horch, horch! die Lerch), D 889
01:52
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Trinklied, D 888
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Composer: Schumann, Robert
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Schlusslied des Narren, Op.127 No. 5
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Composer: Wolf, Hugo
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Lied des transferierten Zettel
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Composer: Cornelius, Peter
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Komm herbei, Tod, Op.16 No. 3
03:06
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Composer: Frances-Hoad, Cheryl
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They Bore him Barefaced on a Bier
03:29
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Composer: Kendall, Hannah
Rosalind
14:26
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1. Here is a space
03:32
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2. all love is a lunacy
03:01
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3. ...no explanation is needed
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4. Take my fear take my feeling
04:03
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5. You do not get to dress me anymore
01:36
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Composer: Poulenc, Francis
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Fancy
02:19
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Composer: Britten, Benjamin
27
Fancie
00:58
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Composer: Honegger, Arthur
Deux chants d'Ariel
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1. Modéré (Venez jusqu'à ces sables d'or)
02:53
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2. Un peu animé (Où butine l'abeille je butine aussi)
00:46
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Composer: Bridge, Frank
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Blow, Blow Thou Winter Wind
01:53
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Composer: Dring, Madeleine
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Take, O Take Those Lips Away
03:53
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Composer: Dankworth, John
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
02:42
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Composer: Horder, Mervyn
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Under the Greenwood Tree
01:24
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Composer: Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
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The Willow Song
02:33
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Composer: Beach, Amy
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Fairy Lullaby
02:11
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Composer: Williams, Roderick
36
Sigh No More, Ladies
01:07
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Composer: Sullivan, Arthur
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Orpheus with his lute
03:41
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Album total
85:13
Composer
Arne, Thomas Augustine
Beach, Amy
Bridge, Frank
Britten, Benjamin
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Mario
Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel
Cornelius, Peter
Dankworth, John
Dring, Madeleine
Frances-Hoad, Cheryl
Gurney, Ivor
Haydn, Joseph
Honegger, Arthur
Horder, Mervyn
Ireland, John
Kendall, Hannah
Moeran, Ernest John
Parry, Hubert
Poulenc, Francis
Schubert, Franz
Schumann, Robert
Smith, John Christopher
Sullivan, Arthur
Tippett, Sir Michael
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Williams, Roderick
Wolf, Hugo
Soprano
Sampson, Carolyn
Baritone
Williams, Roderick
Piano
Middleton, Joseph
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