Ian Bostridge, Antonio Pappano - Britten: Songs (2013) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Winter Words Op. 52: 1. At Day-close in November
02. Winter Words Op. 52: 2. Midnight on the Great Western (or The Journeying Boy)
03. Winter Words Op. 52: 3. Wagtail and Baby (A Satire)
04. Winter Words Op. 52: 4. The Little Old Table
05. Winter Words Op. 52: 5. The Choirmaster's Burial (or The Tenor Man's Story)
06. Winter Words Op. 52: 6. Proud Songsters (Thrushes, Finches and Nightingales)
07. Winter Words Op. 52: 7. At the Railway Station, Upway (or The Convict and Boy with the Violin)
08. Winter Words, Op. 52, No. 8: 'Before Life and After'
09. Michelangelo Sonnets Op. 22: Sonnet XVI Si come nella penna e nell'inchiostro
10. Michelangelo Sonnets Op. 22: Sonnet Xxxi A Che Piu Debb'Io Mai L'Intensa Voglia
11. Michelangelo Sonnets Op. 22: Sonnet XXX Veggio co' be' vostri occhi un dolce lume
12. Michelangelo Sonnets Op. 22: Sonnet LV Tu sa' ch'io so, signior mie, che tu sai
13. Michelangelo Sonnets Op. 22: Sonnet Xxxviii Rendete A Gli Occhi Miei, O Fonte O Fiume
14. Michelangelo Sonnets Op. 22: Sonnet Xxxii S'Un Casto Amor, S'Una Pieta Superna
15. Michelangelo Sonnets Op. 22: Sonnet Xxiv Spirto Ben NATO, In Cui So Specchia E Vede
16. Six Hölderlin Fragments Op. 61: Menschenbeifall
17. Six Hölderlin Fragments Op. 61: Die Heimat
18. Six Hölderlin Fragments Op. 61: Sokrates und Alcibiades
19. Six Hölderlin Fragments Op. 61: Die Jugend
20. Six Hölderlin Fragments Op. 61: Hälfte des Lebens
21. Six Hölderlin Fragments Op. 61: Die Linien des Lebens
22. Who are these Children? Op. 84, Four English Songs: No. 3 Nightmare
23. Who are these Children? Op. 84, Four English Songs: No. 6 Slaughter
24. Who are these Children? Op. 84, Four English Songs: No. 9 Who are these children?
25. Who are these Children? Op. 84, Four English Songs: No. 11 The Children
26. Songs from the Chinese Op. 58: The Big Chariot (from The Book of Songs)
27. Songs from the Chinese Op. 58: The Old Lute (words: Po Chü-i)
28. Songs from the Chinese Op. 58: The Autumn Wind (words: Wu-ti)
29. Songs from the Chinese Op. 58: The Herd-Boy (words: Lu Yu)
30. Songs from the Chinese Op. 58: Depression (words: Po Chü-i)
31. Songs from the Chinese Op. 58: Dance Song (fom the Book of Songs)


This release is one of three new recordings issued in 2013 by EMI & Virgin Classics in honour of Britten's 100th birthday. Ian Bostridge, the internationally acclaimed tenor whose "attention to the text always matches Britten's own scrupulous word-setting", has recorded this album of songs by Benjamin Britten accompanied by Antonio Pappano. Featured are works he has never before recorded: 'Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo', 'Hölderlin Fragments', 'Songs From the Chinese', 'Winter Words' and Four English Songs from the last cycle 'Who are These Children?'.

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