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    Chicago A Cappella Shall I Compare Thee? (CD)

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    Combine the beloved texts of Shakespeare, the composing talents of some of the best contemporary choral composers and the singing talents of an excellent 9 member mixed ensemble and what do you get? Not "toil and trouble", that's for sure. What you get is a beautiful, interesting and at times surprising hour of listening. While mostly classical, the CD opens with a Swinglesque bossa-nova setting of Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare Thee?) written by Kevin Olsen. Matthew Harris' "It Was a Lover and his Lass" is gorgeous. For "Who is Silvia?" he chooses a brassy blues style. Several of the Shakespeare texts are put to music by 2 or more composers making for very interesting comparisons. Seven of the compositions are world premieres. All are a cappella. (63:00 2005)

    Chicago a cappella:Shall I Compare Thee?
    Song List
    Summer Sonnet (Kevin Olsen)
    Blow, blow, thou winter wind (Martha Sullivan)
    Four Shakespeare Songs (Jaakko Mantyjarvi)
    Come Away Death
    Lullaby
    Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
    Full Fathom Five
    It Was a Lover and his Lass (Matthew Harris)
    Take, O Take Those Lips Away (Matthew Harris)
    Who is Silvia? (Matthew Harris)
    And Will A'Not Come Again? (Matthew Harris)
    It was a Lover and his lass (John Rutter)
    Shall I Compare Thee? (Nils Lindberg)
    Take, O Take Those Lips Away (Hakan Parkman)
    My Love is a Fever (Hakan Parkman)
    Orpheus with his lute (Gyorgy Orban)
    O mistress mine! (Gyorgy Orban)
    Four Ballads of Shakespeare (Juhani Komulainen)
    To be, or not to be
    O weary night
    Three words
    Tomorrow and tomorrow
    Spring (Robert Applebaum)
    Witches' Blues (Robert Applebaum)
    Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? (Robert Applebaum)
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