Understandably, there have been few recordings of Benjamin Britten's Canticles. Although the works are both brilliantly written and profoundly affecting, how many performers would dare contend with the performances of the Canticles by Peter Pears, the tenor for whom they were written, with the composer himself at the piano? Not many, as it turns out, and most of these, whatever their merits, have fallen short of that of Pears and Britten. But this 2001 recording of the Canticles V, plus seven of Britten's folk song settings ...
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Understandably, there have been few recordings of Benjamin Britten's Canticles. Although the works are both brilliantly written and profoundly affecting, how many performers would dare contend with the performances of the Canticles by Peter Pears, the tenor for whom they were written, with the composer himself at the piano? Not many, as it turns out, and most of these, whatever their merits, have fallen short of that of Pears and Britten. But this 2001 recording of the Canticles V, plus seven of Britten's folk song settings, comes closer than any other to the ideal set by Pears and Britten. In tenor Ian Bostridge, the Canticles have a singer whose voice is beautiful and whose intelligence is subtle, a singer who understands the music and comprehends the poetry. Pianist Julius Drake does not possess the intimate knowledge of the works that Britten had, but he is an accomplished and sensitive pianist whose accompaniment matches the insighfulness of Bostridge's singing. Countertenor David Daniels is not...
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