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1 audio disc (66:54) : digital, CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Let us garlands bring / Gerald Finzi -- Caleno custure me / William Byrd -- It was a lover and his lass / Thomas Morley -- Take, o take those lips away / John Wilson -- O mistress mine / Thomas Morley -- Where the bee sucks ; Full fathom five / Robert Johnson -- An Silvia : D891 / Franz Schubert -- She never told her love / Joseph Haydn -- Three Shakespeare songs : op. 6. Come away, death / Roger Quilter -- Under the greenwood tree / Ivor Gurney -- Pretty ring time ; Sweet and twenty / Peter Warlock -- Four Shakespeare songs : op. 31. Desdemona's song ; Songs of the clown: op. 29. Come away, death ; Adieu, good man devil / Erich Korngold -- Fancie / Francis Poulenc -- Fancie / Benjamin Britten -- Songs for Ariel / Michael Tippett -- Three songs from William Shakespeare / Igor Stravinsky -- When that I was and a little tiny boy / anonymous.
Program notes by Christopher R. Wilson in English with French and German translations, and texts in English with French and German translations (80 pages : illustrations) bound in container.
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).
Songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble