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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... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016 More…

Release Date: 2nd Sep 2016
Catalogue No: 9029594473
Label: Warner Classics
Length: 66 minutes

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October 2016

Editor's Choice
Presto Recordings of the Year

Finalist 2016
ECHO Klassik Awards

2017

Winner
Grammy Awards

59th Awards (2016)

Best Classical Solo Vocal Album

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Finzi: Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18

Work length15:09

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

I. Come Away, Come Away Death

Track length3:39

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II. Who is Silvia?

Track length1:27

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III. Fear No more the Heat o' the Sun

Track length5:33

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IV. O Mistress Mine

Track length1:53

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V. It Was a Lover and his Lass

Track length2:37

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Byrd: Caleno Custore Me

Work length3:20

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Morley: It was a lover and his lass

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Wilson, John: Take, O take those lips away

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Morley: O mistress mine

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Johnson, R: Where the bee sucks

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Johnson, R: Full fathom five

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Elizabeth Kenny (lute)

Schubert: An Sylvia, D891

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

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

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

Quilter: Come away, death

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

Gurney: 5 Elizabethan Songs (The Elizas): III. Under the Greenwood Tree

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

Warlock: Pretty Ring Time

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

Warlock: Sweet and twenty

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

Korngold: 4 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 31: I. Desdemona's Song

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

Korngold: Songs of the Clown Op. 29

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

I. Come Away Death

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Adieu, Good Man Devil

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Poulenc: Fancie, FP 174

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

Britten: Fancie

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

Tippett: Songs for Ariel

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

I. Come Unto These Yellow Sands

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II. Full Fathom Five

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III. Where the Bee Sucks

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Stravinsky: Three Songs from William Shakespeare

Work length7:15

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Ian Bostridge (tenor), Adam Walker (flute), Lawrence Power (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet)

I. Musick to Hear

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II. Full Fadom Five

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III. Spring (When Daisies Pied)

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

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Ian Bostridge (tenor)

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Recording of the Week, Presto Personal Favourites from 2016

16th December 2016

The Editorial team pick out their "ones that got away" from 2016 - the discs that slipped through the net but which we feel deserve a mention in despatches…

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.

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November 2016

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 inflection of Shakespeare’s verse…Pappano’s accompanying [is] as vigorous as Bostridge’s rhythmic definition. I particularly enjoyed their partnership and Bostridge’s nicely understated ‘Desdemona’s Song’ from Korngold’s still undersung setting

October 2016

As anniversary tributes go, this is a good one...Bostridge’s sensitivity to text and ability to spin a line right through even the densest of consonant clusters makes for a compelling collection that is strongest in contemporary repertoire.

24th September 2016

he is one of the rare singers who really relish their own language...His range is immense: he is at his best in settings with lute accompaniment...Nothing is lovelier, or more touching, than When That I Was and a Little Tiny Boy, which he closes with an exquisite diminuendo.

28th August 2016

This is worth having for the first track alone: an impeccable account of Finzi’s Come Away, Death, with Ian Bostridge blending melancholy and nonchalance, Antonio Pappano accompanying with tender reticence...[Bostridge] squeezes every nuance of meaning from these Shakespeare settings.

9th September 2016

The music is never less than rich, and is often pleasingly strange...Bostridge is beautifully accompanied by the lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, and the two reach a peak of intensity in the Johnson’s Full Fathom Five.

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