Nils Lindberg: O Mistress Mine (A Garland of Elizabethan Poetry)

On this CD:

1. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry Counsel to Girls
Composed by Nils Lindberg
Performed by Nils Lindberg, Lena Willemark
Conducted by Nils Lindberg

2. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry Not Celia, that I juster am
Composed by Nils Lindberg
Performed by Nils Lindberg, Martin Best, Martin Best
Conducted by Nils Lindberg

3. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry A Madrigal
Composed by Nils Lindberg
Performed by Martin Best, Lena Willemark
Conducted by Nils Lindberg

4. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry Carpe Diem
Composed by Nils Lindberg

Conducted by Nils Lindberg

5. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry Go, lovely Rose!
Composed by Nils Lindberg
Performed by Nils Lindberg, Martin Best
Conducted by Nils Lindberg

6. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Composed by Nils Lindberg
Performed by Nils Lindberg, Martin Best, Lena Willemark
Conducted by Nils Lindberg

7. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry To Anthea who may command him anything
Composed by Nils Lindberg
Performed by Nils Lindberg, Olav Holmqvist, Sven Larsson, Sven Larsson, Lena Willemark
Conducted by Nils Lindberg

8. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry Cherry-Ripe
Composed by Nils Lindberg

Conducted by Nils Lindberg

9. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry To Lucasta, on going to the wars
Composed by Nils Lindberg
Performed by Nils Lindberg, Martin Best, Olav Holmqvist, Sven Larsson, Sven Larsson
Conducted by Nils Lindberg

10. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry A Ditty
Composed by Nils Lindberg
Performed by Nils Lindberg, Lena Willemark
Conducted by Nils Lindberg

11. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry The Passionate Shepherd to his love
Composed by Nils Lindberg
Performed by Nils Lindberg, Martin Best
Conducted by Nils Lindberg

12. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry Encouragements to a Lover
Composed by Nils Lindberg
Performed by Martin Best
Conducted by Nils Lindberg

13. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Composed by Nils Lindberg

Conducted by Nils Lindberg

14. O Mistress Mine; a Garland of Elizabethan Poetry Epilogue (piano improvisation)
Composed by Nils Lindberg
Performed by Nils Lindberg

Nils Lindberg: O Mistress Mine (A Garland of Elizabethan Poetry), Music, Anonymous, Thomas Campion, Robert Herrick, Nils Lindberg, Colonel Richard Lovelace, Christopher Marlowe, Charles Sedley, William Shakespeare, Philip Sidney, Edmund Waller, Nils Lindberg, Fresk Quartet, Martin Best, Olav Holmqvist, Sven Larsson, Lena Willemark, Classical, Classical Music, Madrigal, Medieval/Renaissance Vocal, Miscellaneous, Miscellaneous Music, Vocal
Shakespeare in Song [Hybrid SACD]
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • Beautiful, soulful and at times shiveringly wonderful
  • beautiful
  • Stunningly Good : You've GOT to Hear This in SACD!
  • A Spoonful of Sugar
  • Spoonful of Sugar
 Shakespeare in Song [Hybrid SACD]
Matthew Harris , Nils Lindberg , Jaakko Mantyjarvi , Frank Martin , Alan Murray , Ralph Vaughan Williams , Charles Bruffy , Carol Platt , Cassandra Ewer , Laura Inman , and Robert Comeaux
Manufacturer: Chandos
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B0002NRRCO
Release Date: 2004-09-21

Tracks:

  1. Hark! Hark! The Lark Adagio
  2. Tell Me Where Is Fancy Bred. Allegretto
  3. I Shall No More To Sea. Largo
  4. When That I Was And A Little Tiny Boy. Moderato
  5. It Was A Lover And His Lass Gently
  6. O Mistress Mine! Adagietto
  7. When Daffodils Begin To Peer. Lilting, With A Beat
  8. I. Come Unto These Yellow Sands (Ariel's Song). Molto Tranquillo
  9. II. Full Fathom Five. Tres Calme
  10. III. Before You Can Say, 'Come', And 'Go'. Allegro Molto
  11. IV. You Are Three Men Of Sin. Allegro - Adagio - Allegro
  12. V. Where The Bee Sucks, There Suck I. Allegretto Grazioso
  13. Slowly, With Expression - Meno Mosso - Poco Meno Mosso
  14. 1. Come Away, Come Away, Death. Andante Moderato
  15. 2. Lullaby. Andante Con Moto
  16. Double, Double Toil And Trouble...
  17. Full Fathom Five. Grave
  18. Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
  19. Molto Lento Ed Elegiaco
  20. O Mistress Mine! Tranquillo
  21. 1. Full Fathom Five. Andante Misterioso
  22. 2. The Cloud-Capp'd Towers. Lento
  23. 3. Over Hill, Over Dale. Allegro Vivace

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Beautiful, soulful and at times shiveringly wonderful.......2005-07-10

For a lover of choirmusic - this album is a pearl! The Phoenix Bach Choir are wonderful singers, with enviable technique and intonation... This album is among the stayers on my MP3 player :o)

5 out of 5 stars beautiful.......2005-03-21

My chamber group performed the four Mantyjarvi songs, so I bought this album for those four songs alone and because absolutely addicted to most of the album, especially the song by composer Matthew Harris. Hauntingly beautiful. I love this album.

5 out of 5 stars Stunningly Good : You've GOT to Hear This in SACD!.......2005-03-03

As a Kansas Citian, I've had many years experience hearing Charles Bruffy work his magic with choral singers; his home church is a quarter-mile from my home and even his small amateur church choir is wonderful. The Kansas City Chorale, his first professional choir, has made memorable recordings for Nimbus. And now his Phoenix Bach Choir is recording for Chandos. As a recent article by James Reel in Fanfare puts it, Bruffy 'is one of the next big things in American choral music. He's mentioned in the same breath with his former mentor, Robert Shaw.' Possibly my most memorable choral music experience was several years ago when Bruffy combined the Kansas City and Phoenix choirs to sing Thomas Tallis's legendary 'Spem in alium,' with 40+ singers ranged around the periphery of an oval cathedral space with the audience in the middle. Waves of polyphony came crashing over the audience from different directions like musical tidal waves. Extraordinary!

This recording of music set to words by Shakespeare is not the usual olde tyme music, but rather is all from the 20th (and in at least one case, the 21st) century by well-known composers like Vaughan Williams and Frank Martin, and little-knowns like Matthew Harris and Major Alan Murray. All of it is good, some of it strikingly good (like the Martin, the RVW, and Sametz's 'When he shall die,' written in honor of Louis Botto, the late founder of America's most famous professional choir, Chanticleer, and which the choir apparently learned only two days before the recording date!)

Others have already written in some detail about the program. Let me just add that unless you hear this in SACD you're missing something. I have heard it in both formats and can tell you that the SACD is sensational, not that the plain-vanilla CD lacks anything for that medium. As Bruffy predicts in the Fanfare article, 'Once you listen on SACD you'll never go back.'

This is stunningly beautiful release that I recommend unstintingly. On my wish-list is a recording in SACD of the Phoenix Bach Choir and the Kansas City Chorale reunited to sing 'Spem in alium.' Now THAT would really be something heard in surround sound the way Tallis intended it!

TT=55:52

Scott Morrison

4 out of 5 stars A Spoonful of Sugar.......2004-10-09

Shakespeare, for me, is like cough syrup. It's good to have once in a while, but a spoon of it once a year is all you need. Nothing against the Bard, I just wouldn't want him over for my dinner party. But I try to keep an open mind - at least for a few minutes - so I popped the disc into an SACD player and listened.

I heard something new, and something unexpected. Here, the Phoenix Bach Choir doesn't offer some type of trite and foolishly cheerful Renaissance romp, but instead, new settings of old texts.

First, the quality of the recording is superb - listening in 5.1 surround it feels as though the group is singing to you in your living room, albeit in a much better acoustic without the drapes, carpet and recliner. Second, the quality of the sound of the ensemble is exquisite, even in extreme dynamic ranges or technically difficult passages. Bruffy and his singers offer impeccable blend, ideal choral balance, spot-on intonation, careful attention to the ebb and flow of the text, and absolute control of technique, especially in complex polyphonic sections.

These qualities should be reason enough for anyone to buy the album, even though these attributes should be (but often aren't) par for the course for professional choral ensembles.

While the introspective interpretation of the music is an excellent quality, the innovative sounds of these (perhaps unfamiliar) composers are truly wonderful. All of the composers featured on the album have written music during the past 100 years, and the several songs are fresh and accessible. The Matthew Harris "Shakespeare Songs" are absolutely addictive - you'll find yourself humming these tunes while you make your morning muffins. The Nils Lindberg "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is a mellow and jazzy piece, conjuring images of a choral ensemble around the piano at a martini bar. Alan Murray's "O Mistress Mine" is a very English-sounding anthem that, words aside, wouldn't sound out of place in an Anglican church service.

To be fair, the other selections on the disc are not as immediately pleasing. The dark, edgy pieces by Frank Martin and Steven Sametz are the best examples, full of brooding and bite. The Vaughan Williams pieces are much more bitter than one might expect from this beloved composer. Unfortunately, these melancholy, hazy selections tend to get buried together on the album, so be sure to sample things out of order as you listen. I suspect that these other pieces are like a good coffee that one must appreciate over several tastings. But perhaps this coffee needs another spoonful of sugar.

But after the SACD has stopped spinning, I realize that this music has offered me a window to profundity. As I encountered this offering of art, bringing to it all of my prior judgements and feelings, I found that this music activates a point of resonance within myself. Upon reflection, I realized what I heard was the hum of the universal experience of the human condition, the clear ring of music that is carefully laid out as a mirror before the soul.

While most of this album is dark, brooding, and edgy, there is a familiar echo in the sonorities that stays with you like a distant, bittersweet, mysterious, but much treasured, memory.

4 out of 5 stars Spoonful of Sugar.......2004-10-07

Shakespeare, for me, is like cough syrup. It's good to have once in a while, but a spoon of it once a year is all you need. Nothing against the Bard, I just wouldn't want him over for my dinner party. But I try to keep an open mind - at least for a few minutes - so I popped the disc into an SACD player and listened.

I heard something new, and something unexpected. Here, the Phoenix Bach Choir doesn't offer some type of trite and foolishly cheerful Renaissance romp, but instead, new settings of old texts.

First, the quality of the recording is superb - listening in 5.1 surround it feels as though the group is singing to you in your living room, albeit in a much better acoustic without the drapes, carpet and recliner. Second, the quality of the sound of the ensemble is exquisite, even in extreme dynamic ranges or technically difficult passages. Bruffy and his singers offer impeccable blend, ideal choral balance, spot-on intonation, careful attention to the ebb and flow of the text, and absolute control of technique, especially in complex polyphonic sections.

These qualities should be reason enough for anyone to buy the album, even though these attributes should be (but often aren't) par for the course for professional choral ensembles.

While the introspective interpretation of the music is an excellent quality, the innovative sounds of these (perhaps unfamiliar) composers are truly wonderful. All of the composers featured on the album have written music during the past 100 years, and the several songs are fresh and accessible. The Matthew Harris "Shakespeare Songs" are absolutely addictive - you'll find yourself humming these tunes while you make your morning muffins. The Nils Lindberg "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" is a mellow and jazzy piece, conjuring images of a choral ensemble around the piano at a martini bar. Alan Murray's "O Mistress Mine" is a very English-sounding anthem that, words aside, wouldn't sound out of place in an Anglican church service.

To be fair, the other selections on the disc are not as immediately pleasing. The dark, edgy pieces by Frank Martin and Steven Sametz are the best examples, full of brooding and bite. The Vaughan Williams pieces are much more bitter than one might expect from this beloved composer. Unfortunately, these melancholy, hazy selections tend to get buried together on the album, so be sure to sample things out of order as you listen. I suspect that these other pieces are like a good coffee that one must appreciate over several tastings. Perhaps this coffee needs another spoonful of sugar.

But after the SACD has stopped spinning, I realize that this music has offered me a window to profundity. As I encountered this offering of art, bringing to it all of my prior judgements and feelings, I found that this music activates a point of resonance within myself. Upon reflection, I realized what I heard was the hum of the universal experience of the human condition, the clear ring of music that is carefully laid out as a mirror before the soul.

While most of this album is dark, brooding, and edgy, there is a familiar echo in the sonorities that stays with you like a distant, bittersweet, mysterious, but much treasured, memory.
O Mistress Mine
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    		O Mistress Mine
    Nils Lindberg , and Martin Best
    Manufacturer: Bluebell
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD
    ASIN: B000027S1B
    Release Date: 1998-04-10
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    Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    • Wonderful Choral album
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    Manufacturer: Atma Classique
    ProductGroup: Music
    Binding: Audio CD

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    GeneralGeneral | Folk | Styles | Music
    GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
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    ASIN: B00004I9RH
    Release Date: 2000-02-08

    Tracks:

    1. Io Son La Primavera
    2. O, Mistress Mine: I. Not Celia, That I Juster Am
    3. O, Mistress Mine: II. A Ditty
    4. O, Mistress Mine: III. Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
    5. Calme Des Nuits
    6. Les Fleurs Et Les Arbes
    7. Lay A Garland
    8. Seven Poems Of Robert Bridges: I. I Praise The Tender Flower
    9. Seven Poems Of Robert Bridges: II. I Have Loved Flowers That Fade
    10. Seven Poems Of Robert Bridges: III. My Spirit Sang All Day
    11. Seven Poems Of Robert Bridges: IV. Clear And Gentle Stream
    12. Seven Poems Of Robert Bridges: V. Nightingales
    13. Seven Poems Of Robert Bridges: VI. Haste On, My Joy!
    14. Seven Poems Of Robert Bridges: VII. Wherefore To-Night So Full Of Care
    15. My Love Dwelt In A Northern Land
    16. A La Claire Fontaine
    17. Sea-Fever
    18. My Vistula, Grey Vistula - Siri Olesen
    19. Shenandoah
    20. Loch Lomond - Jonathan Quick
    21. Goin' Home - Katherine Goheen

    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Wonderful Choral album.......2003-10-28

    Listen to the samples! This is a rare and lovely programme of choral works. Exemplary and satisfying in every way!
    Nils Lindberg: O Mistress Mine (A Garland of Elizabethan Poetry)
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      		Nils Lindberg: O Mistress Mine (A Garland of Elizabethan Poetry)

      Manufacturer: Bluebell
      ProductGroup: Music
      Binding: Audio CD

      GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
      MadrigalsMadrigals | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
      GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
      ASIN: B000001JCY
      Release Date: 1990-01-01

      Tracks:

      1. Counsel To Girls - Lena Willemark/Fresk Qt
      2. Not Celia, That I Juster Am - Martin Best/Fresk Qt
      3. A Madrigal - Martin Best/Lena Willemark//Fresk Qt
      4. Carpe Diem - Swedish Radio Chor/Gustaf Sjokvist
      5. Go, Lovely Rose! - Martin Best
      6. Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? - Martin Best/Lena Willemark//Fresk Qt
      7. To Anthea Who May Command Him Anything - Lena Willemark
      8. Cherry-Ripe - Swedish Radio Chor/Gustaf Sjokvist
      9. To Lucasta, On Going To The Wars - Martin Best
      10. A Ditty - Lena Willemark
      11. The Passionate Shepherd To His Love - Martin Best
      12. Encouragements To A Lover - Martin Best//Fresk Qt
      13. Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day? - Swedish Radio Chor/Gustaf Sjokvist
      14. Epilogue - Nils Lindberg
      Nils Lindberg: O Mistress Mine (A Garland of Elizabethan Poetry)
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        		Nils Lindberg: O Mistress Mine (A Garland of Elizabethan Poetry)

        Manufacturer: Bluebell Records
        ProductGroup: Music
        Binding: Audio CD

        GeneralGeneral | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
        MadrigalsMadrigals | Songs & Lieder | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music
        GeneralGeneral | Classical | Styles | Music
        ASIN: B00000DPY8
        Release Date: 1993-08-17

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