Sounds and Sweet Airs: A Shakespeare Songbook
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Label: BIS
Cat No: BIS2653
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 1st September 2023
Contents
Works
Under the Greenwood TreeShakespeare Songs (3), op.37
Fancie
Shakespeare Songs (33), op.24
Take, O Take Those Lips Away
Shakespeare Songs (2)
La Tempete
Songs of a Wayfarer
Shakespeare Songs (4)
Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings
Sonnets (4) by ShakespeareAn Sylvia (Who is Sylvia), op.106 no.4 D891
Standchen, D889 'Horch! Horch! Die Lerch'
Trinklied, D888
Lieder und Gesange (5), op.127
Orpheus with his lute
Songs (3) for Ariel
Dirge for Fidele
Sigh no more, ladies
Gedichte (4) nach Heine, Shakespeare und Lord Byron
Artists
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)Roderick Williams (baritone)
Joseph Middleton (piano)
Works
Under the Greenwood TreeShakespeare Songs (3), op.37
Fancie
Shakespeare Songs (33), op.24
Take, O Take Those Lips Away
Shakespeare Songs (2)
La Tempete
Songs of a Wayfarer
Shakespeare Songs (4)
Parry, Charles Hubert Hastings
Sonnets (4) by ShakespeareAn Sylvia (Who is Sylvia), op.106 no.4 D891
Standchen, D889 'Horch! Horch! Die Lerch'
Trinklied, D888
Lieder und Gesange (5), op.127
Orpheus with his lute
Songs (3) for Ariel
Dirge for Fidele
Sigh no more, ladies
Gedichte (4) nach Heine, Shakespeare und Lord Byron
Artists
Carolyn Sampson (soprano)Roderick Williams (baritone)
Joseph Middleton (piano)
About
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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