Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Shakespeare Sonnets
Ashley Riches (baritone), Emma Abbate (piano)
Castelnuovo-Tedesco's melodic style is fresh and uncomplicated, and the composer responds with natural spontaneity to the imagery of the texts…Ashley Riches is an ideal interpreter of this music,...
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Shakespeare Sonnets
Ashley Riches (baritone), Emma Abbate (piano)
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Castelnuovo-Tedesco's melodic style is fresh and uncomplicated, and the composer responds with natural spontaneity to the imagery of the texts…Ashley Riches is an ideal interpreter of this music,...
About
Former Royal Opera House Jette Parker Young Artist baritone Ashley Riches, and rising star pianist Emma Abbate, perform a ravishing selection of previously unrecorded Shakespeare Sonnets by Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco.
Composed after his migration to the USA in 1939, these songs contain both the wistful atmosphere and his obvious warmth for his native Florence as well as his life-long obsession with William Shakespeare.
Making his solo album debut with this album, Ashley Riches, along with the superbly eloquent pianist Emma Abbate, wonderfully capture the mood of each of Shakespeare's masterpieces in miniature.
Contents and tracklist
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 8: Music To Hear, Why Hear’st Thou Music Sadly?
Work length2:18
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 30: When To The Sessions Of Sweet Silent Thought
Work length2:33
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 97: How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been From Thee
Work length2:53
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 105: Let Not My Love Be Called Idolatry
Work length2:33
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 73: That Time Of Year Thou May’st In Me Behold
Work length1:40
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 109: O Never Say That I Was False of Heart
Work length2:23
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 18: Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer’s Day?
Work length2:13
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 146: Poor Soul, The Centre Of My Sinful Earth
Work length2:59
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 27: Weary With Toil, I Haste Me To My Bed
Work length2:49
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 106: When In The Chronicle Of Wasted Time
Work length2:11
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 90: Then Hate Me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now
Work length1:52
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 102: My Love Is Strengthen’d, Though More Weak In Seeming
Work length2:08
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 32: If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day
Work length2:38
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 53: What Is Your Substance, Whereof Are You Made
Work length2:21
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, William Shakespeare:
Sonnet 35: No More Be Grieved At That Which Thou Hast Done
Work length2:11
- Emma Abbate, Ashley Riches (baritone)
Awards and reviews
May 2015
Castelnuovo-Tedesco's melodic style is fresh and uncomplicated, and the composer responds with natural spontaneity to the imagery of the texts…Ashley Riches is an ideal interpreter of this music, with a richness of timbre and a clarity of enunciation that is absolutely essential. He is sensitively accompanied by Emma Abbate.
