Eighteenth-Century Shakespearean Songs
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4824765
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 11th November 2016
Contents
Works
Blow, blow thou winter windCome away, death
Thou soft flowing Avon
Under the Greenwood Tree
Hark, hark the lark
Orpheus with his lute
She never told her love, Hob.XXVIa:34
The Willow Song
O bid your faithful Ariel fly
Now the hungry lion roars
Flower of this purple dye
Sigh no more, ladies
You spotted snakes
Take, O take those lips away
Artists
April Cantelo (soprano)English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Raymond LeppardWorks
Blow, blow thou winter windCome away, death
Thou soft flowing Avon
Under the Greenwood Tree
Hark, hark the lark
Orpheus with his lute
She never told her love, Hob.XXVIa:34
The Willow Song
O bid your faithful Ariel fly
Now the hungry lion roars
Flower of this purple dye
Sigh no more, ladies
You spotted snakes
Take, O take those lips away
Artists
April Cantelo (soprano)English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor
Raymond LeppardAbout
One of the most fruitful periods for such settings was the eighteenth century, when there were frequent reveals of the plays themselves, for which theatre managers commissioned new settings from the resident theatre composers, such as Thomas Arne.
The present disc offers a selection of the settings for solo voice, with accompaniments ranging from simple figured basses to full string orchestras with an obbligato flute. It even includes one or two items in which the words were not by Shakespeare at all, but which were either introduced into Shakespearean productions, or were written in his honour, like Arne’s evocative Thou soft-flowing Avon. Like most of the English music of that tuneful era, these songs are something of a revelation for their melodic charm – the English, then as now, loved a tune, and their composers certainly knew how to supply them with plenty of good tunes.
Originally released on L’Oiseau-Lyre, this is the recording’s first release on CD.
‘To hear [these songs] sung by April Cantelo is to hear them at their best’ - Gramophone, November 1961
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