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聲音和甜美的曲調 (莎士比亞歌本)
卡洛琳.桑普森 女高音
羅德利克.威廉斯 男中音
喬瑟夫.米道頓 鋼琴

All 37 songs in this recital, written by 27 composers male, female, English, French, Swiss, German, Romantic, modern and contemporary bear witness to the richness of Shakespeare's works to which this recital is dedicated.

Organised in the form of a play in five acts, including prologue and epilogue, the songs, which include several duets, are in turn cheerful and sad, light and profound, classical and jazzy thus allowing, in Carolyn Sampson's words,words,'a breadth of responses to these great texts' Alongside well known melodies, such as those by Schubert, there are musical adaptations by different composers of the same texts, as well as a contemporary reflection for the two voices by Hannah Kendall exploring the question of gender fluidity and identity through the elusive character of Rosalind from As You Like It.

After many acclaimed releases on BIS, including Album fur die Frau a collection of songs by Clara and Robert Schumann, A Soprano's Schubertiade and Elysium two Schubert recitals, as well as a number of themed recitals, some of which were named 'Recording of the Month' by MusicWeb International and 'CD Tipp' by BR Klassik Carolyn Sampson and Joseph Middleton are joined here by renowned British baritone Roderick Williams

Prologue:
IRELAND, John
1. Full Fathom Five from The Tempest [duet] (Novello & Co.) 1''14

VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, Ralph (1872—1958)
2. Dirge for Fidele from Cymbeline [duet] (Hal Leonard) 3''55

MOERAN, Ernest John
The Lover and his Lass from As You Like It [duet] 1''39
3. No. 1 of Four Shakespeare Songs, R. 76

Act 1:
TEDESCO, Mario
4. Arise from Cymbeline [Carolyn Sampson] (J. & W. Chester Ltd) 1''24
No. 2 of Shakespeare Songs, Book VI

SMITH, John Christopher, arr. Richard Graves
5. You Spotted Snakes (Curwen) 1''53
from A Midsummer Night''s Dream [duet]

TIPPETT, Michael
Three Songs for Ariel from The Tempest [Roderick Williams] (Schott) 5''06
6. Come unto these Yellow Sands 1''55
7. Full Fathom Five 1''55
8. Where the Bee Sucks 1''10

ARNE, Thomas Like It [Carolyn Sampson] 2''13
GURNEY, Ivor
10. Under the Greenwood Tree from As You Like It [Roderick Williams] 1''43
No. 3 of 5 Elizabethan Songs

PARRY, Hubert
Sonnet LXXXVII [Roderick Williams] 3''27
11. No. 2 of Four Sonnets of Shakespeare

IRELAND, John
When Daffodils Begin to Peer (Boosey & Hawkes) 2''02
from The Winter''s Tale [Roderick Williams]
12. No. 2 of Songs of a Wayfarer

Act 2:
HAYDN, Joseph
13. She never told her love, Hob. XXVIa/34 3''56
from Twelfth Night [Carolyn Sampson]

SCHUBERT, Franz
14. An Silvia, D 891, from The Two Gentlemen of Verona [Carolyn Sampson] 2''44
No. 4 of Vier Lieder, Op. 106

15. Standchen (Horch, horch! die Lerch) 1''47
D 889, from Cymbeline [Carolyn Sampson]

16. Trinklied, D 888, from Antony and Cleopatra [Roderick Williams] 1''17

SCHUMANN, Robert
17. Schlusslied des Narren from Twelfth Night [Roderick Williams] 0''58
No. 5 of Funf Lieder und Gesange, Op. 127

WOLF, Hugo (1860—1903)
18. Lied des transferierten Zettel 0''51
from A Midsummer Night''s Dream [Roderick Williams]
No. 2 of Vier Gedichte nach Heine, Shakespeare und Lord Byron

CORNELIUS, Peter
19. Komm herbei, Tod, Op. 16 No. 3, from Twelfth Night [duet] 2''58

Act 3:
FRANCES-HOAD, Cheryl
20. They Bore him Barefaced on a Bier from Hamlet [Carolyn Sampson] 3''20
No. 2 of Two Shakespeare Songs (Cadenza Music)

KENDALL, Hannah
Rosalind Texts: Sabrina Mahfouz [duet] (Hannah Kendall) 14''10
21. 1. Here is a space. 3''28
22. 2. all love is a lunacy 2''57
23. 3. …no explanation is needed — attacca — 2''14
24. 4. Take my fear take my feeling— attacca — 4''03
25. 5. You do not get to dress me anymore. 1''20
Carolyn Sampson music box (tracks 22, 24 & 25) and harmonica (track 24)

Act 4:
26. POULENC, Francis
Fancy from The Merchant of Venice [Carolyn Sampson] (Anthony Blond Ltd) 2''15

BRITTEN, Benjamin
27. Fancie from The Merchant of Venice [Carolyn Sampson] (Boosey & Hawkes) 0''52

HONEGGER, Arthur
Deux chants d''Ariel 3''32
from The Tempest [Carolyn Sampson] (Editions Maurice Senart)
28. 1. Modere (Venez jusqu''a ces sables d''or) 2''51
29. 2. Un peu anime (Ou butine l''abeille je butine aussi) 0''39

Act 5:
BRIDGE, Frank
30. Blow, Blow thou Winter Wind from As You Like It [Roderick Williams] 1''50

DRING, Madeleine
31. Take, o take those lips away (Thames) 3''42
from Measure for Measure [Roderick Williams]
No. 5 of Seven Shakespeare Songs

DANKWORTH, John
32. Shall I Compare thee to a Summer''s day? (Key Music Ltd) 2''36
Sonnet XVIII [Roderick Williams]

HORDER, Mervyn
33. Under the Greenwood Tree (Alfred Lengnick & Co. Ltd) 1''20
from As You Like It [Carolyn Sampson]; No. 1 of Seven Shakespeare Songs

COLERIDGE-TAYLOR, Samuel
34. The Willow Song from Othello [Carolyn Sampson] 2''28

BEACH, Amy
35. Fairy Lullaby from A Midsummer Night''s Dream [Carolyn Sampson] 2''04
No. 3 of Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 37

WILLIAMS, Roderick
36. Sigh no More, Ladies from Much Ado About Nothing [duet] (Manuscript) 0''59

Epilogue:
SULLIVAN, Arthur
37. Orpheus with his Lute from Henry VIII [duet] 3''11

TT: 85''13