Peter Pears: The complete “Seven sonnets of Michelangelo Op. 22“ (Britten)

Seven sonnets of Michelangelo (Op. 22): I. Sonetto XVI 00:00 II. Sonetto XXXI 01:59 III. Sonetto XXX 03:21 IV. Sonetto LV 06:37 V. Sonetto XXXVIII 08:24 VI. Sonetto XXXII 10:18 VII. Sonetto XXIV 11:38 Britten, Benjamin (1913-76) -composer Peter Pears -tenor Benjamin Britten -piano Playlist: “The art of British song: Elgar, Somervell, Williams, Finzi..“: The Seven Sonnets of Michelangelo date from the period of Britten’s self-imposed exile in America during the early years of the Second World War. Freed of ’national’ artistic restraints, he consciously absorbed diverse European and American styles and techniques into his music. He completed the Rimbaud cycle, Les Illuminations, came to terms with Mahler in the Violin Concerto and the Sinfonia da Requiem, and he exercised his ’American’ voice in the operetta Paul Bunyan. But of all the work