Britten Abroad
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Label: Signum
Cat No: SIGCD122
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 28th April 2008
Contents
Works
Folksong arrangements Vol.2 'France'Sonnets of Michelangelo (7), op.22
The Poet's Echo, op.76
Artists
Susan Gritton (soprano)Mark Padmore (tenor)
Iain Burnside (piano)
Works
Folksong arrangements Vol.2 'France'Sonnets of Michelangelo (7), op.22
The Poet's Echo, op.76
Artists
Susan Gritton (soprano)Mark Padmore (tenor)
Iain Burnside (piano)
About
The Poet's Echo was written during a holiday that Britten and Pears spent in the Soviet Union with Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich in August 1965. The cycle is dedicated to 'Galya and Slava' and was first performed by the dedicatees in the Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, on 2 December 1965; they gave the UK premiere on 2 July the following year, in London's Royal Festival Hall.
Um Mitternacht was written around 1960. It was first performed by the soprano Lucy Shelton and pianist Ian Brown at the 1992 Aldeburgh Festival and only entered the repertory with the publication of The Red Cockatoo & Other Songs by Faber Music in 1994. It is unique in that it's Britten's only setting of Goethe, an anthology of whose verse he received around this time from his friend Prince Ludwig of Hesse and the Rhine, the dedicatee of the final song-cycle on this disc, the Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente. Britten and Pears recorded them for the BBC Third programme on 20 October 1958.
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