 |
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
Format: CD
Aug 1999
Record Label: Philips
Recording Type: Studio
UPC: 028945650623 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
In general items shipped via Media Mail should arrive in 2-9 days (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) from the time of shipping
* ML=ships from multiple locations, AE/AP/AA=ships from U.S. Military location.
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
Details
Track Listing
1. Comedy of errors: Lo, here the gentle lark
2. Welcome to this place
3. Should he upbraid
4. Who is Sylvia? What is she? (1)
5. That time of year
6. When that I was a little tiny boy
7. Come live with me and be my love
8. Hark, hark, each Spartan hound
9. Oh! never say that I was false of heart
10. Who is Sylvia? What is she? (2)
11. Sing Willow
12. It was a lover and his lass
13. Under the greenwood tree
14. Take, oh! take those lips away
15. Flower of this purple dye
16. Now the hungry lions roar
17. Orpheus with his lute
18. Come, thou monarch of the vine
19. Spirits Advance
Album Notes
The works of William Shakespeare have enough music in the words to keep composers working through the end of time. Between 1816 and 1821, Henry Rowley Bishop helped create operas from Shakespeare's stage work. The productions, which took place at Covent Garden, were crowd-pleasing affairs featuring the most popular actors of the day. Unlike traditional opera, Bishop's operas were not sung all the way through, and the music was easy enough to allow actors without rigorous operatic training to join in.
Bishop's compositions are light and airy, full of string and winds, and typically English. It is easy to see why the popularity of these songs continues: melodic with an easy, subtle rhythm, they follow the iambic pentameter of Shakespeare's verse. Despite their heavenly lyrics, these songs are quite human and easy to enjoy.
Reviews:
Fanfare (1-2/00, p.210) - "...[Susan Gritton's] superb technical control of the coloratura demands of 'Lo!, Hear the Gentle Lark'...is almost worth the price of the disc alone....Philip Pickett...directs with verve, spirit, and, in the gentler songs, sensitivity..."
American Record Guide (1-2/00, p. 68) - "...The music is uncomplicated, though well crafted and presented with confidence...and grand style by Philip Picket's [Musicians of the Globe]....I don't think I have ever heard [this music] performed with more polish, flair and sensitivity..."
|
|
|
|
Similar Items on eBay
|
|
)
All rights reserved.
