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Italian Writers
With Peggy Reynolds.
4: Michelangelo. Besides creating the frescos in the Sistine Chapel, the statue of David and St Peter 's
Basilica, Michelangelo was one of Italy's greatest poets. Some 300 of his poems survive and have inspired some of this century's finest music. Including:
Wolf Fuhlt Meine Seele
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
Pfitzner Das Dunkle Reich (excerpt) Sigurd Bruns (organ), Berlin RSO, conductor Rolf Reuter
Britten Michelangelo Sonnets
(excerpts) Philip Langridge (tenor), Steuart Bedford (piano)
Strauss Madrigal , Op 15 No 1 Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Georg Solti (piano)
Shostakovich Suite on Poems of Michelangelo Dietrich
Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Berlin
RSO, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy

Contributors

Unknown:
Peggy Reynolds.
Unknown:
St Peter
Baritone:
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Piano:
Gerald Moore
Unknown:
Sigurd Bruns
Conductor:
Rolf Reuter
Conductor:
Britten Michelangelo
Tenor:
Philip Langridge
Piano:
Strauss Madrigal
Piano:
Georg Solti
Piano:
Shostakovich Suite
Unknown:
Michelangelo Dietrich
Conductor:
Vladimir Ashkenazy
Source: Radio Times

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