Benjamin Britten: Winter Words op.52 on CD

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976)

Winter Words op.52

Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford

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+The Holy Sonnets of John Donne op. 35; 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo op. 22; If it's ever Spring again; The Children & Sir Nameless

Artists:: Philip Langridge, Steuart Bedford
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 1996
Item number:: 7537761
UPC/EAN:: 0747313220120
Release date:: 26.1.2004
Series:: Naxos English Song Series

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Britten's song cycles form a substantial and important part of his work. The Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo belong to the period when Britten had begun to set foreign languages in an attempt to broaden his musical horizons. It is his first work composed exclusively for Peter Pears and deals with various aspects of love. Written in August 1945, soon after Britten had returned from a tour of German concentration camps with Yehudi Menuhin, The Holy Sonnets of John Donne captures some of the bleak intensity of that experience. In the eight settings of Thomas Hardy, Winter Words, written in 1953, there is no less abundance of the musical invention and imagery found in the earlier cycles, but the textures are generally leaner and more economical.

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FonoForum 07/04: "In den Michelangelo-Sonetten beeindrucken die fast übergroßen Abstufungen der Gefühlsintensität zwischen den einzelnen Liedern, und Philip Langridge legt sich, emotional wie vokal, auch entsprechend ins Zeug."

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Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet VI: Oh my blacke Soule!
2 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet XIV: Batter my heart
3 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet III: O might those sighes and teares
4 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet XIX: Oh, to vex me
5 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet XIII: What if this present
6 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet XVII: Since she whom I lov'd
7 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet VII: At the round earth's imagin'd corners
8 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet I: Thou hast made me
9 The Holy Sonnets of John Donne, Op. 35: Sonnet X: Death, be not proud
10 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XVI: Si come nella penna e nell'inchiostro
11 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XXXI: A che piu debb'io mai l'intensa voglia
12 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XXX: Veggio co' be' vostri occhi un dolce lume
13 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto LV: Tu sa' ch'io so, signior mie, che tu sai
14 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XXXVIII: Rendete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume
15 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XXXII: S'un casto amor, s'una pieta superna
16 7 Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op. 22: Sonetto XXIV: Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia e vede
17 Winter Words, Op. 52: At Day-close in November
18 Winter Words, Op. 52: Midnight on the Great Western
19 Winter Words, Op. 52: Wagtail and Baby
20 Winter Words, Op. 52: The Little Old Table
21 Winter Words, Op. 52: The Choirmaster's Burial
22 Winter Words, Op. 52: Proud Songsters
23 Winter Words, Op. 52: At the Railway Station, Upway
24 Winter Words, Op. 52: Before Life and After
25 If it's ever Spring again
26 The Children and Sir Nameless