Elgan Llyr Thomas, Iain Burnside, Craig Ogden
Release Date: 23 June 2023
Label: Delphian Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 801918342936
Composer/Series: Unveiled
Description
In Jeremy Sams' new English-language singing version of Britten's Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo, the passionate sentiments are liberated from the safe historical distance of the Italian Renaissance and unveiled in a way that was not possible in 1940, when Britten wrote the cycle - his first for his partner Peter Pears. Tenor Elgan Llyr Thomas presents it alongside Michael Tippett's equally ardent Songs for Achilles and a short item by W. Denis Browne, a close friend of the poet Rupert Brooke, as well as premiere recordings of four Brooke settings by Ruth Gipps and a new song-cycle by Thomas himself, to poems by Andrew McMillan. Tackling themes of love, shame, acceptance, war and death, the programme traverses a history of male homosexuality from necessary discretion to the (relatively) liberated present.
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