| TEDESCO, Mario Castelnuovo (1895-1965) | |
| 1. | Sonnet VIII: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? | 2:18 | |
| 2. | Sonnet XXX: When to the sessions if sweet silent thought | 2:33 | |
| 3. | Sonnet XCVII: How like a winter hath my absence been from thee | 2:53 | |
| 4. | Sonnet CV: Let not my love be called idolatry | 2:33 | |
| 5. | Sonnet LXXIII: That time of year thou may'st in me behold | 1:40 | |
| 6. | Sonnet CIX: O never say that I was false of heart | 2:23 | |
| 7. | Sonnet XVIII: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day | 2:13 | |
| 8. | Sonnet CXLVI: Poor soul, the centre of my sinful earth | 2:59 | |
| 9. | Sonnet XXVII: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed | 2:49 | |
| 10. | Sonnet CVI: When in the chronicle of wasted time | 2:11 | |
| 11. | Sonnet XC: Then hate me when thou wilt; if ever, now | 1:52 | |
| 12. | Sonnet CII: My love is strengthen'd, thou more weak in seeming | 2:08 | |
| 13. | Sonnet XXXII: If thou survive my well-contented day | 2:38 | |
| 14. | Sonnet LIII: What is your substance, whereof you are made | 2:22 | |
| 15. | Sonnet XXXV: No more be grieved at that which thou hast done | 2:11 | |
| 16. | Sonnet LX: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore | 1:49 | |
| 17. | Sonnet CXXVIII: How oft, when thou, my music, music play'st | 2:39 | |
| 18. | Sonnet LVII: Being your slave | 2:41 | |
| 19. | Sonnet XXIX: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes | 2:11 | |
| 20. | Sonnet LXIV: When I have seen by time's fell hand defaced | 2:37 | |
| 21. | Sonnet LXV: Since brass, nor stone, nor death, nor boundless sea | 2:32 | |
| 22. | Sonnet LXXXVII: Farewell! Thou art too dear for my possessing | 2:39 | |
| 23. | Sonnet CIV: To me, fair friend, you never can be old | 2:23 | |
'[...] this fine collection of Shakespeare Sonnets is doubly welcome [...] Baritone Ashley Riches is an ideal interpreter of this music, with a richness of timbre and a clarity of enunciation that is absolutely essential. He is sensitively accompanied by Emma Abbate.'
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