Shakespeare Song Album

Classique

Contenu

T. Morley: It Was a Lover and His Lass (As you like it)
T. Arne: When Daisies Pied (Love's Labour's Lost)
T. Arne: Where the Bee Sucks (The Tempest)
H. R. Bishop: Lo! Here the Gentle Lark (Venus and Adonis)
A. S. Sullivan: The Willow Song (Othello)
M. B. Foster: Under the Greenwood Tree (As you like it)
C. V. Stanford: O Mistress mine (Twelfth Night)
C. V. Stanford: The Rain it Raineth Every Day (Twelfeth Night)
F. Austin: Orpheus With his Lute (Henry)
R. Quilter : When Daffodils Begin to Peer (The Winter's Tale)
R. Quilter: Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind (As you like it)
R. Quilter: When Icicles Hang by thé Wall (Love's Labour's Lost)
F. Bridge: Blow, Blow, thou Winter Wind (As you like it)
J. Ireland: When Daffodils Begin to Peer (The Winter's Tale)I
Harrison: I know a Bank (A midsummer Night's Dream)
E. Coates: Orpheus with his Lute (Henry III)
E. Coates: Under the Greenwood Tree (As you like it)
E. Coates: Who is Sylvia (The two Gentleman of Verona)
S. Findlay: It was a Lover and His Lass (As you like it)
S. Findlay: The Poor Soul Sat Sighing (Othello)
I. Higginson: O Mistress Mine (Twelfth Night)
I. Higginson: Fear No More the Heat o' the Sun (Cymbeline)
I. Higginson: It Was a Lover and His Lass (As you like it)

Description :

The edition is part of the ABRSM syllabus (grade 4, 5, 7, 8) Composers have set Shakespeare's infinite variety of lyrics to music more than any other secular texts, and this album contains a fascinating collection stretching over 4 centuries for Voice with Piano accompaniment.