17. 'Dainty fine bird'
From the album ‘Flora gave me fairest flowers’
Composer Orlando Gibbons
Conductor John Rutter
Choir Members of the Cambridge Singers
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Dainty fine bird
(Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets of 5 Parts, 1612)
Dainty fine bird that art encaged there,
Alas, how like thine and my fortunes are.
Both prisoners be; and both singing, thus
Strive to please her that hath imprisoned us.
Only thus we differ, thou and I,
Thou liv'st singing, but I sing and die.
Flora gave me fairest flowers
John Rutter directs members of the Cambridge Singers in a programme of English Madrigals from a number of composers including Weelkes, Wilbye, Morley and Byrd.
John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1981) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.
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