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Remember Your Lovers: Songs by Tippett, Britten
Benjamin Britten, Michael Tippett

John Mark Ainsley tenor, Iain Burns

Remember Your Lovers: Songs by Tippett, Britten

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Format: CD
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212006627
Catnr: SIGCD 066
Release date: 01 October 2005
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Signum Classics
UPC
0635212006627
Catalogue number
SIGCD 066
Release date
01 October 2005
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About the album

Sir Michael Tippett's great masterpieces - Boyhood's End and The Heart's Assurance - are coupled here with some of his editions of songs by Henry Purcell, and Benjamin Britten's companion piece to Boyhood's End - Canticle 1. Superbly performed by John Mark Ainsley and Iain Burnside, an added treat is the performance of Tippett and Bergman's edition of Pelham Humfrey's setting of John Donne's A Hymn to God the Father.

John Mark Ainsley is one of the world's leading tenors. He has worked with the Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic, and has appeared with the San Fransisco Opera, and as Der Daemon in the world premiere of Henze's L'Upupa.

Iain Burnside has performed with artists including Dame Margaret Price and Susan Chilcott. As a broadcaster he has recently won a Sony Radio Award.

Artist(s)

John Mark Ainsley

John Mark Ainsley is a highly versatile concert singer whose international engagements include appearances with the London Symphony under Sir Colin Davis, Rostropovich and Previn, the Concert D’Astrée under Haim, the London Philharmonic under Norrington, Les Musiciens du Louvre under Minkowski, the Cleveland Orchestra under Welser-Möst, the Berlin Philharmonic under Haitink and Rattle, the Berlin Staatskapelle under Jordan, the New York Philharmonic under Masur, the Boston Symphony under Ozawa, the San Francisco Symphony under Tate and Norrington, the Vienna Philharmonic under Norrington, Pinnock and Welser-Möst, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Marriner and Langrée, and both the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestre de Paris under Giulini. At the 2005 Saito Kinen Festival he appeared...
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John Mark Ainsley is a highly versatile concert singer whose international engagements include appearances with the London Symphony under Sir Colin Davis, Rostropovich and Previn, the Concert D’Astrée under Haim, the London Philharmonic under Norrington, Les Musiciens du Louvre under Minkowski, the Cleveland Orchestra under Welser-Möst, the Berlin Philharmonic under Haitink and Rattle, the Berlin Staatskapelle under Jordan, the New York Philharmonic under Masur, the Boston Symphony under Ozawa, the San Francisco Symphony under Tate and Norrington, the Vienna Philharmonic under Norrington, Pinnock and Welser-Möst, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields under Marriner and Langrée, and both the Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino and the Orchestre de Paris under Giulini.

At the 2005 Saito Kinen Festival he appeared in Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder under Ozawa. His discography is extensive, including Handel’s Saul with Gardiner, Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream with Davis, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella with Haitink and J.S. Bach’s Mass in B minor and the Evangelist in the St Matthew Passion with Ozawa, L’enfance du Christ, Alexander’s Feast, Acis and Galatea, the Berlioz Requiem and the title role in Monteverdi’s Orfeo. He has made a series of recital records of Schubert, Mozart, Purcell, Grainger, Warlock and Quilter, with a recording of Vaughan Williams’s On Wenlock Edge nominated for a Gramophone Award. Other recordings include the Britten cycles Serenade for tenor, horn and strings, Les Illuminations and Nocturne, Charlie in Brigadoon and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni. On the operatic stage he has sung Don Ottavio at the Glyndebourne Festival under Sir Simon Rattle, and at the Aix-en-Provence Festival under Claudio Abbado. He has appeared with Opera Australia as Tito and Idomeneo, with the Netherlands Opera as the title role in Handel’s Samson, with the San Francisco Opera as Don Ottavio and Jupiter in Semele and at the Munich Festival as Jonathan in Saul and as Orfeo, for which he received the Munich Festival Prize. In 2002 he made his début at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as Don Ottavio under Mackerras. At the 2003 Salzburg Festival he created the rôle of Der Daemon in the world première of Hans Werner Henze’s L’Upupa, which he reprised at the Teatro Real, Madrid. He returned to Salzburg in 2006 where he sang Soliman in Zaide and Belfiore in La finta giardinera. He sang The Madwoman in Britten’s Curlew River in Frankfurt and his first Pelléas for the Deutsche Oper, Berlin.


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Iain Burnside

Iain Burnside is a pianist who has appeared in recital with many of the world’s leading singers. He is also an insightful programmer with an instinct for the telling juxtaposition. His recordings straddle an exuberantly eclectic repertoire ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to the cutting edge. Burnside’s passion for English Song is reflected in acclaimed albums of Britten, Finzi, Ireland, Butterworth and Vaughan Williams, many with baritone Roderick Williams. Away from the piano Burnside is active as a writer and broadcaster. For Guildhall School of Music & Drama Burnside has devised a number of singular theatre pieces. A Soldier and a Maker, based on the life of Ivor Gurney, was performed at the Barbican Centre and the Cheltenham Festival, and later...
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Iain Burnside is a pianist who has appeared in recital with many of the world’s leading singers. He is also an insightful programmer with an instinct for the telling juxtaposition. His recordings straddle an exuberantly eclectic repertoire ranging from Beethoven and Schubert to the cutting edge. Burnside’s passion for English Song is reflected in acclaimed albums of Britten, Finzi, Ireland, Butterworth and Vaughan Williams, many with baritone Roderick Williams.
Away from the piano Burnside is active as a writer and broadcaster. For Guildhall School of Music & Drama Burnside has devised a number of singular theatre pieces. A Soldier and a Maker, based on the life of Ivor Gurney, was performed at the Barbican Centre and the Cheltenham Festival, and later broadcast by BBC R3 on Armistice Day. Iain Burnside is Artistic Director of the Ludlow English Song Weekend and Artistic Consultant to Grange Park Opera.

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Benjamin Britten

Benjamin Britten is one most important British composers from the second half of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he focused on opera, a dying genre, at least in its current form. Britten's contributions however, among which Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice, managed to remain core repertoire for opera companies to this day. Many of these productions included a role for his artistic partner and life companion Peter Pears. Britten also wrote a number of lieder for this tenor, among which his Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra. Yet, Britten excelled in many more genres. He wasn't even 20 years old when he composed his brilliant Phantasy for hobo quartet and his friendship with...
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Benjamin Britten is one most important British composers from the second half of the twentieth century. Remarkably, he focused on opera, a dying genre, at least in its current form. Britten's contributions however, among which Peter Grimes, The Rape of Lucretia, Gloriana, The Turn of the Screw, and Death in Venice, managed to remain core repertoire for opera companies to this day. Many of these productions included a role for his artistic partner and life companion Peter Pears. Britten also wrote a number of lieder for this tenor, among which his Serenade for tenor, horn and string orchestra. Yet, Britten excelled in many more genres. He wasn't even 20 years old when he composed his brilliant Phantasy for hobo quartet and his friendship with the legendary cellist Rostropovich led to a Cello sonata, three Suites for cello solo and a Symphony for Cello and orchestra in the 1960s.

Britten never became Master of the Queen's Music, yet he surely had feeling for public sentiments. For example, as a pacifist, he taught his people about world peace through his War Requiem from 1962. Britten was an excellent interpreter of his own work, just like Bartók and Stravinsky. Many of his recordings have been matched, but never exceeded.


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01.
Song
02:55
(Sir Michael Tippett) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
02.
The Heart's Assurance
02:22
(Sir Michael Tippett) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
03.
Compassion
04:19
(Sir Michael Tippett) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
04.
The Dancer
02:13
(Sir Michael Tippett) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
05.
Remember your lovers
06:16
(Sir Michael Tippett) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
06.
If music be the food of love
02:03
(Henry Purcell (Tippett/Bergmann)) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
07.
Music
03:28
(Sir Michael Tippett) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
08.
Music for a while
03:23
(Henry Purcell (Tippett/Bergmann)) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
09.
Boyhod's End
12:32
(Sir Michael Tippett) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
10.
Sweeter than Roses
03:28
(Henry Purcell (Tippett/Bergmann)) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
11.
An evening hymn
03:54
(Henry Purcell (Tippett/Bergmann)) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
12.
Canticle 1
07:37
(Sir Michael Tippet) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
13.
An Epithalamium (A Wedding Song)
02:41
(Henry Purcell (Tippett/Bergmann)) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
14.
What shall I do?
01:34
(Henry Purcell (Tippett/Bergmann)) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
15.
Twas within a furlong of Edinburgh Town
02:14
(Henry Purcell (Tippett/Bergmann)) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
16.
A Hymn to God the Father
02:45
(Henry Purcell (Tippett/Bergmann)) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
17.
Ah! How Sweet it is to Love
01:55
(Henry Purcell (Tippett/Bergmann)) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
18.
I attempt from love's sickness
01:51
(Henry Purcell (Tippett/Bergmann)) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
19.
Come unto these yellow sands
01:53
(Sir Michael Tippet) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
20.
Full fathom five
02:03
(Sir Michael Tippet) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
21.
Where the bee sucks
01:17
(Sir Michael Tippet) John Mark Ainsley, Iain Burnside
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