Valentina Coladonato, Mirko Guadagnini - Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125 & Duets, Op. 97 (2017)

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01. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: VIII. Music To Hear, Why Hearst Thou Music Sadly?
02. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: XVIII. Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
03. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Xxix. When In Disgrace With Fortune And Men's Eyes
04. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: XXX. When to the Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought
05. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Xxxi. Thy Bosom Is Endeared With All Hearts
06. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Xxxii. If Thou Survive My Well-Contented Day
07. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Liii. What Is Your Substance Whereof Are You Made
08. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Lvii. Being Your Slave, What Should I Do But Tend
09. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: LX. Like as the Waves Make Towards the Pebbled Shore
10. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Lxiv. When I Have Seen By Time's Fell Hand Defaced
11. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: LXV. Since Brass, Nor Stone, Nor Earth, Nor Boundless Sea
12. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Lxxiii. That Time Of Year Thou Mayst In Me Behold
13. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Lxxxvii. Farewell! Thou Art Too Dear For My Possessing
14. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: XC. Then Hate me When Thou Wilt; If Ever, Now
15. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Xciv. They That Have Power To Hurt, And Will Do None
16. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Xcvii. How Like A Winter Hath My Absence Been
17. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Xcviii. From You Have I Been Absent In The Spring
18. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: CII. My Love is Strengthen'd, Though More Weak in Seeming
19. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: CIV. To me, Fair Friend, you Never Can be Old
20. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: CV. Let not my Love be Called Idolatry
21. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: CVI. When in the Chronicle of Wasted Time
22. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: CIX. O Never Say That I Was False of Heart
23. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Cxvi. Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
24. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Cxxviii. How Oft, When Thou, My Music, Music Play'
25. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Cxxix. Th'Expense Of Spirit In A Waste Of Shame
26. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Cxlvi.Poor Soul, The Centre Of My Sinful Earth
27. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Cliv. The Little Love-God, Lying Once Asleep
28. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Xxvii. Weary With Toil, I Haste Me To My Bed
29. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Xxxv. No More Be Grieved At That Which Thou Hast Done
30. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: XL. Take all my Loves, my Love, Yea Take Them All
31. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Lxxi. No Longer Mourn For Me When I Am Dead
32. Shakespeare Sonnets, Op. 125: Xlvii. Betwixt Mine Eye And Heart A League Is Took
33. 3 Shakespeare Duets, Op. 97: I. Romeo and Juliet
34. 3 Shakespeare Duets, Op. 97: II. Lorenzo and Jessica
35. 3 Shakespeare Duets, Op. 97: III. Katherine and Petruchio


No modern record company has done more than Brilliant Classics to revive the music and reputation of the Italian-American composer Mario Castelvuovo-Tedesco. Not only in the field of guitar music for which he is most famous, but in piano music and most recently an extensive and powerful song-cycle for soprano and guitar, The Divan of Moses Ibn Ebra. Here’s another new album of the composer’s vocal music, of still greater importance: the first complete recording of his cycle of Shakespeare Sonnets, coupled with the world premiere recording of the three Shakespeare Duets. Castelnuovo-Tedesco set texts by many great poets, among them Dante, Heine and Lorca. It was for Shakespeare, however, that he nurtured his foremost passion. Having composed settings of all the standalone songs in the plays while still resident in Italy, he then turned to the sonnets while ‘isolated and proud’ in the bitter-sweet exile of Beverly Hills where he made his home for the last 30 years of his life. They were set down with astonishing fluency, more than half within less than two months in the autumn of 1945. Ultimately he put music to 32 of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, all in the original English, including three settings for vocal ensemble. All of them are now gathered together for the first time, together with the three Duets from 1937.

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