Hyperion

Orpheus with his lute – Music for Shakespeare from Purcell to Arne

Orpheus with his lute – Music for Shakespeare from Purcell to Arne

Catherine Bott (soprano), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

CDA67450

This fiftieth release in Hyperion’s glorious ‘English Orpheus’ series takes us on a Shakespearean Odyssey through Titus Andronicus, Measure for Measure, Troilus and Cressida, Much Ado about Nothing, Henry VIII, Cymbeline, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Tempest. Pride of place, of course, goes to Thomas Arne’s immortal settings, but the disc additionally explores some remarkable songs by his predecessors and contemporaries.

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