Description
Tracklist:
: On This Island, Op. 11
1: Let The Florid Music Praise!
2: Now The Leaves Are Falling Fast
3: Seascape (For Kit Welford)
4: Nocturne
5: As It Is, Plenty
: The Holy Sonnets Of John Donne, Op. 35
6: Oh My Black Soule!
7: Batter My Heart
8: O Might Those Sighes And Teares
9: Oh, To Vex Me
10: What If This Present
11: Since She Whom I Loved
12: At The Round Earth’s Imagined Corners
13: Thou Hast Made Me
14: Death, Be Not Proud
: Seven Sonnets Of Michelangelo, Op. 22
15: Si Come Nella Penna E Nell’inchiostro
16: A Che Piu Debb’io Mai L’intensa Voglia
17: Veggio co’ Bei Vostri Occhi Un Dolce Lume
18: Tu Sa’ Ch’io So, Signior Mie, Che Tu Sai
19: Rendete A Gli Occhi Miei, O Fonte O Fiume
20: S’un Casto Amor, S’una Pieta Superna
21: Spirto Ben Nato, In Cui Si Specchia E Vede
22: Canticle I ‘My Beloved Is Mine’, Op. 40
Gilchrist is a greatly sensitive interpreter, his tone liquid yet urgent, his diction immaculate and august, his choices admirable.’ The Sunday Times
‘Gilchrist’s rather English sound fits music that was conceived for Pears’s equally English style very well, whether in the unbuttoned declarations of love of the Michelangelo songs, or the much darker introspection of the Donne Sonnets.’ The Guardian
