SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMER'S DAY? (solo) - Z. Randall Stroope @zrandallstroope1025

Uploaded June 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

***** Love transcends the fleeting nature of life and beauty, ensuring the person in the poem to live on in memory forever. One of Shakespeare most beloved poems (Sonnet 18) - No. 4 from Randall's solo set - LOVE'S WANING SEASONS. (All on YouTube)

RECORDING: Jon Garrison, Metropolitan Opera tenor; Z. Randall Stroope, piano.
This set of four can be performed by a soprano, tenor, or alternating movements by both.)
1. Autumn (Walter de la Mare) voice, piano
2. A Winter Night (Sara Teasdale) voice, piano
3. I So Liked Spring (Charlotte Mew) voice, piano, flute
**4. Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Shakespeare) voice, piano

Published by Colla Voce #50-96780
Movement 4 is also available in SATB/piano at Alliance Music Publ.

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SHALL I COMPARE THEE TO A SUMMERS DAY? (solo) - Z. Randall Stroope

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