Five Am'rous Sighs

composer

Jonathan Dove (b1959)

Recordings

London Pride
Catherine Bott (soprano), David Owen Norris (piano)

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CDA67457

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No 1: Between your sheets you soundly sleep

author of text
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Catherine Bott (soprano), David Owen Norris (piano)

Track 9 on CDA67457 [2'50]
English

No 2: Finish! Finish, these Languours make me sick

author of text
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Catherine Bott (soprano), David Owen Norris (piano)

Track 10 on CDA67457 [1'02]
English

No 3: My heart still hovering round about you

author of text
Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

Catherine Bott (soprano), David Owen Norris (piano)

Track 11 on CDA67457 [1'20]
English

No 4: All these dismal looks and fretting

author of text
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

Catherine Bott (soprano), David Owen Norris (piano)

Track 12 on CDA67457 [1'41]
English

No 5: Venus, take my votive glass

author of text
Matthew Prior (1664-1721)

Catherine Bott (soprano), David Owen Norris (piano)

Track 13 on CDA67457 [1'21]
English

Five Am'rous Sighs

Published in 2001, Five Am’rous Sighs evokes eighteenth-century metropolitan life in settings of poems by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Matthew Prior. For a singer like me, more used to dead composers than living ones, it was a great pleasure to give the first public performance of this gorgeous piece in the presence of its composer in that first London Pride performance at the Spitalfields Festival.

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