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Ian Bostridge - Death Be Not Proud (Britten)

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Uploaded by on Dec 14, 2009

Tenor Ian Bostridge and Pianist Graham Johnson Performing The IX Holy Sonnet by John Donne with music by Benjamin Britte.

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  • I wish some public-spirited person would upload #6 from the cycle, 'Since she whom I loved' (#17 of the Holy Sonnets); it gets my vote as the finest of the set.

  • Incredible, I have unshed tears in my eyes. The colour in Ian's voice in the last 'die'... So incredibly beautiful. Thank you for sharing!

  • @stevevandien That is quite a compliment! And a true one.

  • This is sublime! My favorite poem!

    I adore John Donne!

  • Really beautiful. I have all these cycles with Pears, but I'd like go get them with Ian... he's great.

  • One of the greatest songs of the 20th century, regardless of language. Peter Pears, who first sang Britten's setting of these marvelous sonnets, set the bar extremely high. But Bostridge reaches it --

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