Songs on texts by William Shakespeare
Gerald Finzi (1901-1956)
Let Us Garlands Bring, Op. 18
William Byrd (c1539/40-1623)
Caleno Custore Me
Thomas Morley (1557/8-1602)
It was a lover and his lass
John Wilson (1595-1674)
Take, o take those lips away
Thomas Morley (1557/8-1602)
O mistress mine
Robert Johnson (c1583-c1634)
Where the bee sucks
Full fathom five
Franz Schubert (1797-1828)
An Sylvia, D 891
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
She never told her love, Hob. XXVIa:34
Roger Quilter (1877-1953)
Come away, death
Ivor Gurney (1890-1937)
Under the Greenwood Tree
Peter Warlock (1894-1930)
Pretty Ring Time
Sweet and twenty
Erich Wolfgang Korngold (1897-1957)
Desdemona's Song
Come away
death
Adieu, good man devil
Francis Poulenc (1899-1963)
Fancie
Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)
Fancie
Michael Tippett (1905-1998)
Songs for Ariel
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)
Three Songs from William Shakespeare
Anonymous
When that I was but a little tiny boy
Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)
Elizabeth Kenny (lute),
Adam Walker (flute)
Michael Collins (clarinet), Lawrence Power (viola)
(flac image, log, cue, booklet)
(by courtesy of Bodtje@Susato)