CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO: Shakespeare Sonnets Op.125 & Duets Op.97 (2CD)

CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO
Shakespeare Sonnets Op.125 and Duets Op.97
Shakespeare Sonnets Op.125
(first complete recording)
1. VIII. Music to hear, why hearst thou music sadly? 2’24
2. XVIII. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? 2’34
3. XXIX. When in disgrace with Fortune and men’ eyes 2’26
4. XXX. When to the sessions of sweet silent thought 2’19
5. XXXI. Thy bosom is endeared with all hearts 2’20
6. XXXII. If thou survive my well-contented day 3’00
7. LIII. What is your substance whereof are you made 3’10
8. LVII. Being your slave, what should I do but tend 2’58
9. LX. Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore 1’48
10. LXIV. When I have seen by Time’s fell hand defaced 3’16
11. LXV. Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea 2’45
12. LXXIII. That time of year thou mayst in me behold 2’11
13. LXXXVII. Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing 3’10
14. XC. Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now 1’57
15. XCIV. They that have power to hurt, and will do none 2’43
16. XCVII. How like a winter hath my absence been 3’03
17. XCVIII. From you have I been absent in the spring 1’56
18. CII. My love is strengthened, though more weak in seeming 2’49
19. CIV. To me, fair friend, you never can be old 2’33

CD2
1. CV. Let not my love be called idolatry 2’57
2. CVI. When in the chronicle of wasted time 2’47
3. CIX. O, never say that I was false of heart 3’01
4. CXVI. Let me not to the marriage of true minds 3’07
5. CXXVIII. How oft, when thou, my music, music play’st 3’02
6. CXXIX. The expense of spirit in a waste of shame 2’47
7. CXLVI. Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth 3’35
8. CLIV. The little Love-God, lying once asleep 2’21
9. XXVII. Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed 2’48
10. XXXV. No more be grieved at that which thou hast done 2’45
11. XL. Take all my loves, my love, yea take them all 3’11
12. LXXI. No longer mourn for me when I am dead 3’26
13. XLVII. Betwixt mine eye and heart a league is took 2’43
3 Shakespeare Duets Op.97
(premiere recording)
14. I. Romeo and Juliet (Pavane) 3’23
15. II. Lorenzo and Jessica (Nocturne) 4’08
16. III. Katherine and Petruchio (Burlesque) 3’54
Valentina Coladonato soprano*
Mirko Guadagnini tenor **
Filippo Bettoschi baritone ***
Genova Vocal Ensemble & Sibi Consoni Accademia Vocale di Genova
conducted by Roberta Paraninfo ****
Claudio Proietti piano
* Sonnets 29, 31, 57, 73, 90, 98, 104, 116, 35, 40, 71, 47; Duets 1, 2, 3
** Sonnets 53, 87, 97, 102, 105, 106, 109, 128; Duets 1, 2, 3
*** Sonnets 8, 18, 30, 32, 60, 64, 65, 146, 27
**** Sonnets 94, 129, 154
Recording: 10-15 February 2017, Tenuta Spinola – Banna (Torino), Italy