MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten Abroad: A collection of songs by Benjamin Britten set in Italian, Russian, French & German
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BENJAMIN BRITTEN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Britten Abroad: A collection of songs by Benjamin Britten set in Italian, Russian, French & German
Susan Gritton (soprano) Mark Padmore (tenor) Iain Burnside (piano)
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Release Date: Friday 30 May 2008
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"The Pushkin settings of The Poet's Echo (1965) demand dramatic, intense colours, and the soprano Susan Gritton duly supplies them ... Throughout, the pianist Iain Burnside traverses this vast, impressive terrain with stylish ease"
The Sunday Times
"The singing and the playing are superb...a fine production"
(MusicWeb August 2008)
"What an inspired idea not only to bring together Britten's mature foreign-language songs, but also to have the programme shared by two of Britain's keenest and brightest singers. …delight and spiritual depths go hand in hand." BBC Music 5 STARS
Britten's extraordinary skill and fluency for setting his native language has sometimes obscured his flair for his settings of foreign poetry; some of his very finest are in German, Latin, Italian and Russian.
Susan Gritton and Mark Padmore perform these songs with vigour, marvellously accompanied by Iain Burnside and do great justice to songs which many would regard as being the most distinctive and very finest examples of Britten's art.
Tracks:
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op.22
The Poet's Echo, Op.76
Four French Folksong Arrangements
Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, Op.61
Four French Folksong Arrangements
