| 8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi | ||||
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art by Giulio Romano design by Russell Mills and Michael Webster |
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| Studio album by Michael Nyman | ||||
| Released | July 29, 2008 | |||
| Recorded | December 10 & 11, 2007, Olympic Studio 1, London | |||
| Genre | art song, contemporary classical, minimalism | |||
| Length | 45:29 | |||
| Language | Italian | |||
| Label | MN Records | |||
| Producer | Michael Nyman | |||
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| BBC | [1] |
| The Buffalo News | [2] |
| The Independent | (favorable) [3] |
8 Lust Songs: I Sonetti Lussuriosi is a setting by Michael Nyman of 8 pieces of a collection of vulgar poetry from Pietro Aretino’s I Sonetti Lussuriosi. The songs depict a man and woman's sexual desires for one another in varying contexts. Marie Angel premiered the piece, voicing both the male and female characters, including a voyeuristic old woman, with the Orchestra di Santa Cecilia, conducted by the composer, on October 4, 2007 at the Arsenale in Venice, Italy, on a commission from Venice Biennale. A studio recording with the Michael Nyman Band was released on compact disc July 29, 2008. It is Nyman's 59th album, and the twelfth on his own label.
In a concert on May 8, 2008, the programs for a live performance of the work at Cadogan Hall were withdrawn on the grounds that they contained obscene content.[4] The U.S. release of the album has a very large Parental Advisory Explicit Content sticker directly on the jewel case, an extreme rarity in classical music (shared with John Moran's The Manson Family, which was quickly withdrawn and became a collectible).
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