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BRITTEN ABROAD
Susan Gritton/Mark Padmore/Iain Burnside
SIGCD 122 CD
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Britten's settings of Italian, Russian, French and German, performed here by Susan Gritton, Mark Padmore and
Iain Burnside are certainly amongst the most distinctive and very finest examples of his art, each fashioned
specifically for a much-loved and favoured artist.
The Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo were completed in America in October 1940 and were the first songs
written specifically for Britten's life-long partner and principle interpreter, the tenor Peter Pears, to whom
they are dedicated and unquestionably addressed. Britten and Pears premiered the Michelangelo Sonnets at the
Wigmore Hall on 23 September 1942, the first of many memorable appearances they were to make in
London's premiere recital hall over the next three decades.
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 the present disc, the Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente. Britten and Pears
recorded them for the BBC Third programme on 20 October 1958.
"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
Artists:
Susan Gritton (soprano),
Mark Padmore (tenor),
Iain Burnside (piano)
Works:
BRITTEN ABROAD
Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, Op.22
1. Sonetto XVI Si come nella penna e nell’inchiostro
2. Sonetto XXXI A che piu debb’io mai l’intensa voglia
3. Sonetto XXX Veggio co’bei vostri occhi un dolce lume
4. Sonetto LV Tu sa’ch’io so, signior mie, che tu sai
5. Sonetto XXXVIII Redete a gli occhi miei, o fonte o fiume
6. Sonetto XXXII S’un casto amor, s’una pieta superna
7. Sonetto XXIV Spirto ben nato, in cui si specchia evede
The Poet’s Echo, Op.76
8. Echo
9. My Heart ...
10. The Rose
11. The Nightingale and the Rose
12. Epigram
13. Lines written during a sleepless night
Four French Folksong Arrangements
14. La Noël passée
15. Voici le Printemps
16. Fileuse
17. Le roi s’en va-t’en chasse
18. Um Mitternacht (1960)
Sechs Hölderlin-Fragmente, Op.61
19. Menschenbeifall
20. Die Heimat
21. Sokrates und Alcibiades
22. Die Jugend
23. Hälfte des Lebens
24. Die Linien des Lebens
Four French Folksong Arrangements
25. La belle est au jardin d’amour
26. Il est quelqu’un sur terre
27. Eho! Eho!
28. Quand j’étais chez mon père
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