SHAKESPEARE SONGS

Dit jaar is het 400 jaar geleden dat de grootste toneelschrijver ooit overleed, en hij wordt geëerd en tot leven gebracht op Shakespeare Songs. Afwisselend begeleid door piano (Antonio Pappano) en luitiste Elizabeth Kenny geeft tenor Ian Bostridge op indrukwekkende wijze een stem aan liederen van componisten die Shakespeare hebben verklankt. Van Haydn en Byrd tot Schubert, Korngold, Poulenc en Stravinsky (in zijn Three songs from William Shakespeare horen we ook fluit, klarinet en viool). Ook Tipett ontbreekt niet, waardoor dit album laat zien dat Shakespeares woorden voor de meest uiteenlopende componisten door de eeuwen heen een inspiratiebron was. Een prachtig recital.

Shakespeare Songs


anon.:
When that I Was but a Little Tiny Boy

Britten:
Fancie

Byrd:
Callino casturame

Finzi:
Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18

Gurney:
Under the greenwood tree

Haydn:
She Never Told Her Love, Hob. XXVIa:34

Johnson, R:
Where the bee sucks
Full fathom five

Korngold:
Desdemona' Song (No. 1 from Four Shakespeare Songs Op. 31)
Adieu, good Man Devil (No. 2 from Songs of the Clown Op. 29)

Morley:
It was a lover and his lass
O mistress mine
It was a lover and his lass

Poulenc:
Fancy

Quilter:
Come away, death

Schubert:
An Sylvia, D891

Stravinsky:
Three Songs from William Shakespeare
Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)

Tippett:
Songs for Ariel

Warlock:
Pretty Ring Time
Sweet and twenty

Wilson, John:
Take, O take those lips away

Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)


Grammy® Award winners Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano have been working together on the stage and in the recording studio for over 20 years. Together they have produced award-winning recordings and played sold out concert halls all over the world to huge critical acclaim. Now they embark on a project marking the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare with a new album out in September. Shakespeare Songs celebrates the four centuries of music and performance that his plays and sonnets have inspired.

Shakespeare’s peerless feeling for the music of the English language has inspired countless composers, from those who set the Bard’s verse during his lifetime to musicians as diverse as Britten, Finzi, Korngold and Stravinsky. Ian Bostridge and Sir Antonio Pappano, together with four outstanding chamber musicians, delve into the rich Shakespeare legacy for this brand new recording, marking the playwright’s quarter-centenary with a delectable programme of works written for Jacobean productions, Restoration revivals and the modern concert hall. As guests Ian has invited his friends the lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, and for Stravinsky’s Three Songs flautist Adam Walker, violist Lawrence Power and clarinetist Michael Collins.