Shakespeare Songs: As You Like It

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Rich and quite strange, to paraphrase Shakespeare is the only possible summation of this dazzling, bewildering collection of songs written for and inspired by Shakespeare. Spence is game for... — Gramophone Magazine, March 2013 More…

Release Date: 1st Jan 2013
Catalogue No: RES10116
Label: Resonus Classics
Length: 56 minutes

This release includes a digital booklet

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Schubert: Ständchen 'Horch! Horch! die Lerch!', D889

Work length1:34

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Malcolm Martineau (piano), Nicky Spence (tenor)

Quilter: Three Shakespeare Songs, Op. 6

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

No. 1. Come away, death

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No. 2. O mistress mine

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No. 3. Blow, blow, thou winter wind

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Britten: Fancie

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Malcolm Martineau (piano), Nicky Spence (tenor)

Poulenc: Fancy

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Malcolm Martineau (piano), Nicky Spence (tenor)

Fancy

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Chausson: Trois Chansons de Shakespeare (translated by Maurice Bouchor) Op. 28

Work length7:43

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

No. 1. Chanson de clown

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No. 2. Chanson d'amour

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No. 3. Chanson d'Opheilie

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Schubert: An Sylvia, D891

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Purcell: If music be the food of love, Z379

Work length2:02

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Malcolm Martineau (piano), Nicky Spence (tenor)

Purcell: The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, Act V: Epithalamium: Thrice happy lovers (arr. W. Bergmann and M. Tippett)

Work length2:51

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Malcolm Martineau (piano), Nicky Spence (tenor)

Tippett: Songs for Ariel

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

No. 1. Come unto these yellow sands

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No. 2. Full fathom five

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No. 3. Where the bee sucks

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Excerpt, Haydn: English Canzonettas (6), book 2, Hob.XXVIa:31-36

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

6 Original Canzonettas, Book 2, Hob.XXVIa:31-36L: No. 34. She never told her love

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Schubert: Trinklied D888 (Shakespeare / Mayerhofer / Bauernfeld)

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Malcolm Martineau (piano), Nicky Spence (tenor)

Wolf, H: 4 Gedichte nach Heine, Shakespeare und Lord Byron (text by W. Shakespeare)

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Malcolm Martineau (piano), Nicky Spence (tenor)

4 Gedichte nach Heine, Shakespeare und Lord Byron: No. 2. Lied des transferierten Zettel

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Bush, G: It Was A Lover And His Lass

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Malcolm Martineau (piano), Nicky Spence (tenor)

Woolf, A: 3 Tempestuous Tunes

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Malcolm Martineau (piano), Nicky Spence (tenor)

No. 1. This is a very scurvy tune

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No. 2. Flout 'em and scout 'em

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No. 3. No more dams I'll make for fishh

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Argento: Elizabethan Songs (6)

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

No. 1. Winter

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No. 2. Dirge

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Horder: 7 Songs

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

7 Songs: No. 2. Under the greenwood tree

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Dankworth: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Dankworth: The Compleat Works

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Dankworth: Dunsinane Blues

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Nicky Spence (tenor), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

Dickinson: Schubert in Blue

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Malcolm Martineau (piano), Nicky Spence (tenor)

Schubert in Blue: Hark, hark, the lark

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Resonus is proud to welcome internationally celebrated artists Nicky Spence (tenor) and Malcolm Martineau (piano) with the release of a recital album consisting of a musical journey of Shakespeare Songs set by a diverse and eclectic range of composers from Purcell and Haydn, through to Britten, Quilter, Tippett and John Dankworth, via Chausson and Schubert.

Entitled As You Like It: Shakespeare Songs, the album shows the supreme versatility of Spence's voice and abilities from Romantic lieder to jazz-inspired works, all superbly accompanied by the universally acclaimed pianist Malcolm Martineau.

Also included on the album is the world premiere recording of Three Tempestuous Tunes by young composer Alex Woolf. Born in 1995, and already an award-winning composer, Woolf is a principal composer with the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and a recipient of the BBC Young Composer Award for 2012.

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March 2013

Rich and quite strange, to paraphrase Shakespeare is the only possible summation of this dazzling, bewildering collection of songs written for and inspired by Shakespeare. Spence is game for anything...Initially, [he] presents himself as a well-groomed, somewhat unoriginal singer...Soon, though, one realises he is indeed original, suggesting that an undercurrent in his disc is a catalogue of singing styles.

May 2013

not only an opportunity to sample the breadth and variety of Shakespeare settings through the centuries...but also the interpretative range of both artists. It's also a lot of fun...[the Schubert are] particularly well suited to Spence's flexible, fulsome and multi-hued tenor.

11th February 2013

Spence’s voice is naturally thrilling, radiant and luminescent in just about every second of this programme, crossing stylistic boundaries with the silvery ease of a born entertainer. If anything, the recording production level is a little in-your-face at times, but there’s no getting away from the charismatic listenability of this ultra-svelte performing duo.

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