Sounds & Sweet Airs - A Shakespeare Songbook / Sampson, Williams, Middleton

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August 4, 2023
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Thomas Arne, Amy Beach, Frank Bridge, Benjamin Britten, Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Samuel Coleridge-
    • PERFORMER
      Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      August 04, 2023
    • UPC
      7318599926537
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      BIS-2653
    • LABEL
      BIS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Art Song
    Works ⌄

    1. Full Fathom Five

      Composer: John Ireland

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    2. Dirge for Fidele

      Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    3. The Lover and His Lass (version for 2 voices and piano)

      Composer: Ernest John Moeran

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    4. 33 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 24: Book 6: No. 2. Arise

      Composer: Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    5. The Fairies: You Spotted Snakes (arr. R. Graves for 2 voices and piano)

      Composer: John Christopher Smith

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    6. No. 1. Come unto these Yellow Sands

      Composer: Michael Tippett

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    7. No. 2. Full Fathom Five

      Composer: Michael Tippett

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    8. No. 3. Where the Bee Sucks

      Composer: Michael Tippett

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    9. As You Like It: Under the Greenwood Tree (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Thomas Augustine Arne

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    10. 5 Elizabethan Songs: No. 3. Under the Greenwood Tree

      Composer: Ivor Gurney

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    11. 4 Sonnets: No. 2. Sonnet 87, "Farewell, Though Art Too Dear"

      Composer: Hubert Parry

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    12. Songs of a Wayfarer: No. 2. When Daffodils Begin to Peer

      Composer: John Ireland

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    13. 6 Original Canzonettas, Book 2, Hob.XXVIa:31-36: No. 4. She Never Told Her Love, Hob.XXVIa:34

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    14. Gesang, Op. 106, No. 4, D. 891, "An Sylvia" (Who is Sylvia)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    15. Ständchen, D. 889, "Hark, hark, the lark" (Horch, horch! die Lerch)

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    16. Trinklied, D. 888

      Composer: Franz Schubert

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    17. 5 Lieder und Gesänge, Op. 127: No. 5. Schlusslied des Narren

      Composer: Robert Schumann

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    18. 4 Gedichte nach Heine, Shakespeare und Lord Byron: No. 2. Lied des transferierten Zettel

      Composer: Hugo Wolf

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    19. Duette, Op. 16: No. 3. Komm herbei, Tod

      Composer: Peter Cornelius

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    20. 2 Shakespeare Songs: No. 2. They Bore him Barefaced on a Bier

      Composer: Cheryl Frances-Hoad

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    21. No. 1. Here is a space.

      Composer: Hannah Kendall

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    22. No. 2. all love is a lunacy

      Composer: Hannah Kendall

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    23. No. 3. …no expanation is needed -

      Composer: Hannah Kendall

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    24. No. 4. Take my fear take my feeling -

      Composer: Hannah Kendall

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    25. No. 5. You do not get to dress me anymore.

      Composer: Hannah Kendall

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    26. Fancy, FP 174

      Composer: Francis Poulenc

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    27. Fancie (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Benjamin Britten

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    28. No. 1. Venez jusqu'à ces sables d'or

      Composer: Arthur Honegger

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    29. No. 2. Où butine l'abeille

      Composer: Arthur Honegger

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    30. Blow, Blow thou Winter Wind

      Composer: Frank Bridge

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    31. 7 Shakespeare Songs: No. 5. Take, O Take Those Lips Away

      Composer: Madeleine Dring

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    32. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

      Composer: John Dankworth

      Performer: Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    33. 7 Shakespeare Songs: No. 1. Under the Greenwood Tree

      Composer: Mervyn Horder

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    34. Othello, Op. 79: No. 4. The Willow Song (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    35. 3 Shakespeare Songs, Op. 37: No. 3. Fairy Lullaby (version for voice and piano)

      Composer: Amy Beach

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Joseph Middleton

    36. Sigh no More, Ladies

      Composer: Roderick Williams

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton

    37. 5 Shakespeare Songs: No. 1. Orpheus with his Lute (arr. R. Williams for 2 voices and piano)

      Composer: Arthur Sullivan

      Performer: Carolyn Sampson, Roderick Williams, Joseph Middleton


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.

REVIEW:

Soprano Carolyn Sampson and baritone Roderick Williams are prolific singers who can handle almost any kind of repertory but have a strong connection to the English tradition from the Baroque to the 20th century. It would be hard to imagine better singers for this collection of Shakespeare songs, for on one hand, Shakespeare settings are about as traditional as one can get, while on the other, this is an exceptionally diverse collection. Listeners unaware that Haydn set Shakespeare should make it their business to hear Sampson in She never told her love, as soon as possible. There are settings of German Shakespeare translations by Schubert, Schumann, and Hugo Wolf, a French one by Arthur Honegger, and an entrancing English-language Fancy by Poulenc. This album represents, in short, an embarrassment of riches, and it is one of the finest Shakespeare song releases to come along in quite some time.

-- AllMusic.com (James Manheim)

CONTENTS:

    • Ireland: Full fathom five
    • Vaughan Williams: Dirge for Fidele
    • Moeran: The Lover and his Lass
    • Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Arise, "Sea Murmurs"
    • Smith, J C: You spotted snakes
    • Tippett: Songs for Ariel
    • Arne: Under the Greenwood Tree
    • Gurney: Under the greenwood tree
    • Parry: Sonnet LXXXVII
    • Ireland: When daffodils begin to peer
    • Haydn: She Never Told Her Love, Hob. XXVIa:34
    • Schubert: An Silvia, D 106
    • Schubert: Ständchen 'Horch! Horch! die Lerch!', D889
    • Schubert: Trinklied D888
    • Schumann: Schlusslied des Narren, Op.127 No. 5
    • Wolf, H: Lied des transferierten Zettel
    • Cornelius: Komm herbei, Tod, Op.16 No. 3
    • Frances-Hoad: Rosalind
    • Poulenc: Fancy
    • Britten: Fancie
    • Honegger: Deux Chants d'Ariel
    • Bridge: Blow, blow, thou winter wind
    • Dring: Take, O Take Those Lips Away
    • Dankworth: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
    • Horder: Under the greenwood tree
    • Coleridge-Taylor: The Willow Song
    • Beach, A: Fairy Lullaby
    • Williams, Roderick: Sigh no More, Ladies
    • Sullivan, A: Orpheus with his Lute