in Opera Now (Nov, 2016)
And now for something completely different: Ian Bostridge singing Shakespeare Songs. It’s a simple concept, with the tenor interpreting a generous selection of the playwright’s texts as set to music by a wide range of composers. It is incredibly diverse, running the gamut from Shakespeare’s contemporary (and possible collaborator) Thomas Morley’s setting of ‘It was a lover and his lass’, through Schubert’s ‘An Sylvia’ to Tippet’s Songs for Ariel. It’s fascinating to hear the same text set by different composers – for example, ‘Come away, come away, death’ from Twelfth Night is given in three contrasting 20th-century versions by Quilter, Finzi and Korngold. Bostridge is an ideal singer for …
Shakespeare Songs – Bostridge / Pappano
Let us Garlands Bring: Come away, come away death
Let us Garlands Bring: Who is Silvia?
Finzi: Let us Garlands Bring: Fear no more the heat o’ the sun
Let us Garlands Bring: O Mistress Mine
Let us Garlands Bring: It was a lover and his lass
Callino custore me / Caleno Custore Me
It was a lover and his lass
Take o take those lips away
O mistress mine
Where the bee sucks
Full fathom five
An Silvia, D. 891
She Never Told Her Love
Quilter: 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6: No. 1, Come Away, Death
Under the Greenwood Tree
Pretty Ring Time
Sweet and Twenty
Four Shakespeare Songs Op. 31, No. 1: Desdemona’s Song
Songs of the Clown Op.29: Come Away Death
Songs of the Clown, Op. 29: Adieu, Good Man Devil
Fancie
Fancie
Songs for Ariel: Come Unto These Yellow Sands
Songs for Ariel: Full fathom five
Songs for Ariel: Where the Bee Sucks
3 Songs from William Shakespeare: No. 1 Musick to hear
3 Songs from William Shakespeare: No. 2 Full fadom five
3 Songs from William Shakespeare: No. 3 Spring (When Daisies Pied)
When that I was but a little tiny boy
Bostridge / Pappano
19,90€
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