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Eighteenth-Century Shakespearen Songs (CD)
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April Cantelo

    Eighteenth-Century Shakespearen Songs (CD)

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    Shakespeare’s plays and their incidental lyrics have always been popular with composers from Thomas Morley to Benjamin Britten. There must be many hundreds of Shakespearean settings, ranging from simple songs to full-length operas. One of the most fruitful periods for such settings was the eighteenth century when there were frequent reveals of the plays themselves for which theatre managers commissioned new settings from the resident theatre composers, such as Thomas Arne.