Philip Lane
FIVE SHAKESPEARE LYRICS for female voice choir and piano
Roberton 3073
Shakespeare is so much the poet of all times and all climes that it occurred to me to view a sequence of song texts with a kaleidoscopic eye and create a variety of stylistic examples that grew characteristically out of each text - not to produce variety for its own sake but as a genuine collection of individual reactions. This apparent mixture of styles seems to me completely natural and acceptable, although only perhaps in film music is it normal for a composer to be able to express himself in quite such a disparate manner. Philip Lane
Five settings of Shakespeare texts for SSA choir and piano: Where the bee sucks (from "The Tempest"); Tell me, where is fancy bred? (from "The Merchant of Venice"); Blow, blow, thou winter wind (from "As You Like It"); Full fathom five (from "The Tempest"); It was a lover and his lass (from "As You Like It").
Duration 11 minutes
Five settings of Shakespeare texts for SSA choir and piano: Where the bee sucks (from "The Tempest"); Tell me, where is fancy bred? (from "The Merchant of Venice"); Blow, blow, thou winter wind (from "As You Like It"); Full fathom five (from "The Tempest"); It was a lover and his lass (from "As You Like It").
Duration 11 minutes
