Death hath deprived me - Thomas Weelkes, John Rutter, Members of the Cambridge Singers

23. 'Death hath deprived me'
From the album ‘Flora gave me fairest flowers’

Composer Thomas Weelkes
Conductor John Rutter
Choir Members of the Cambridge Singers

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Death hath deprived me
(Thomas Weelkes, appended to Ayeres Or Phantasticke Spirites, 1608)

Death hath deprived me of my dearest friend;
My dearest friend is dead and laid in grave.
In grave he rests until the world shall end.
The world shall end, as end all things must have.
All things must have an end that Nature wrought;
That Nature wrought must unto dust be brought.

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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