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Classical, Instrumental
In Jeremy Sams’ new English-language singing version of Britten’s Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, the passionate sentiments are liberated from the safe historical distance of the Italian Renaissance and unveiled in a way that was not possible in 1940, when Britten wrote the cycle – his first for his partner Peter Pears.
Tenor Elgan Llŷr Thomas presents it alongside Michael Tippett’s equally ardent Songs for Achilles and a short item by W. Denis Browne, a close friend of the poet Rupert Brooke, as well as premiere recordings of four Brooke settings by Ruth Gipps and a new song-cycle by Thomas himself, to poems by Andrew McMillan.
Tackling themes of love, shame, acceptance, war and death, the programme traverses a history of male homosexuality from necessary discretion to the (relatively) liberated present.
Tracklist
01. Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 1, Sonetto XVI
02. Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 2, Sonetto XXXI
03. Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 3, Sonetto XXX
04. Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 4, Sonnetto LV
05. Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 5, Sonnetto XXXVIII
06. Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 6, Sonnetto XXXII
07. Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo (Translated to English by Jeremy Sams): No. 7, Sonnetto XXIV
08. Four Songs of Youth: No. 1, Failure
09. Four Songs of Youth: No. 2, Unfortunate
10. Four Songs of Youth: No. 3, The Dance
11. Four Songs of Youth: No. 4, Peace 1914
12. To Gratiana dancing and singing (Pavan)
13. Songs for Achilles: No. 1, In the Tent
14. Songs for Achilles: No. 2, Across the Plain
15. Songs for Achilles: No. 3, By the Sea
16. Swan: I. the lake is calm tonight
17. Swan: II. my first time in water
18. Swan: III. then the year everything was swan
19. Swan: IV. the black swan of debt
20. Swan: IV. then the year everything was darkness
21. Swan: V. ‘sing a swan of sixpence’
22. Swan: VI.[queen]. mother don’t eat me
23. Swan: VII. I plucked each feather from myself
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