Sounds and Sweet Airs: A Shakespeare Songbook

EDITORIAL REVIEWS
The 37 songs in this recital, written by 27 composers – male, female, English, French, Swiss, German, Romantic, modern and contemporary – bear witness to the richness of Shakespeare’s works to which this recital is dedicated. 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.

1: Full Fathom Five
2: Dirge for Fidele
3: The Lover and His Lass
4: Arise, 'Sea Murmurs'
5: You Spotted Snakes
6: Come Unto These Yellow Sands
7: Full Fathom Five
8: Where the Bee Sucks
9: Under the Greenwood Tree
10: Under the Greenwood Tree
11: Sonnet LXXXVII
12: When Daffodils Begin to Peer
13: She Never Told Her Love, Hob.XXVIa:34
14: An Silvia, D891
15: Ständchen, 'Horch! Horch! Die Lerch!', D889
16: Trinklied, D888
17: Schlusslied Des Narren, Op. 127, No. 5
18: Lied Des Transferierten Zettel
19: Komm Herbei, Tod, Op. 16, No. 3
20: They Bore Him Barefaced On a Bier
21: Here Is a Space
22: All Love Is a Lunacy
23: ...No Explanation Is Needed
24: Take My Fear Take My Feeling
25: You Do Not Get to Dress Me Anymore
26: Fancy
27: Fancie
28: Venez Jusqu'à Ces Sables D'or
29: Où Butine L'abeille Je Butine Aussi
30: Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind
31: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
32: Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?
33: Under the Greenwood Tree
34: The Willow Song
35: Fairy Lullaby
36: Sigh No More, Ladies
37: Orpheus With His Lute

Number of Discs: 1

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