Italian Renaissance artist and poet Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1682).
1. Benjamin Britten. Sonnets of Michelangelo, opus 22.
Peter Pears, tenor. Benjamin Britten, piano.
2. Dmitri Sjostakovitsj. Suite to poems by Michelangelo Buonarroti, opus 145a.
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone.
Radio Symphonie Orchester Berlin conducted by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
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