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Shakespeare Songs
RecommendedIan Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano), Elizabeth Kenny (lute), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)
Five songs from Finzi’s incomparable Let us Garlands Bring see the tenor’s head voice floating sympathetically through the melismatic vowels and ever-shifting metres of Finzi’s most sensitive... —
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Gramophone Magazine, October 2016, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2016
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ECHO Klassik Awards, 2017, Winner
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Grammy Awards, 59th Awards (2016), Best Classical Solo Vocal Album
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Sounds and Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook
Carolyn Sampson (soprano), Roderick Williams (baritone), Joseph Middleton (piano)
Sampson’s vocal security throughout the registers, clear diction, and patrician phrasing all testify to a complete artist. And Sampson proves every bit as much at home in the modernist works... —
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Special offer. Britten: A Ceremony of Carols
Skaila Kang (harp), Alexander Wells (piano)
New London Children's Choir, Ronald Corp
Ronald Corp directs bright, refreshing performances of a delightful collection of Britten choral pieces... A splendid bargain. —
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Rich and quite strange, to paraphrase Shakespeare is the only possible summation of this dazzling, bewildering collection of songs written for and inspired by Shakespeare. Spence is game for... —
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Shakespeare Songs: Full Fathom Five
Choeur de chambre Les Éléments, Corine Durous, Thierry Peteau, Fabienne Fontana, Geneviève Duport-Fourtet, Marie-Philippine Chevallier, Sabine Garrone, Didier Chevalier, Els Janssens, Joël Suhubiette
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A Festival of Britten
James Sherlock (organ, piano) & Vicky Lester (harp)
National Youth Choirs of Great Britain, National Youth Choir, Training Choir South, Training Choir North, Cambiata Voices, Boys' Choir, Girls' Choir, Chamber Choir, Robert Isaacs, Greg Beardsell, Rachel Staunton, Dominic Peckham, Niall...
These are not performances for those who like their Britten to sound like the Choir of King's College Cambridge in the days of David Willcocks. All preciosity has gone; the vowels are open and... —
