21. 'Sleep, fleshly birth'
From the album ‘Flora gave me fairest flowers’
Composer Robert Ramsey
Conductor John Rutter
Choir Members of the Cambridge Singers
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Sleep, fleshly birth
(Robert Ramsey, unpublished ms.)
Sleep, fleshly birth, in peaceful earth,
And let thine ears list to the music of the spheres,
While we around this fairy ground
Thy doleful obit keeping,
Make marble melt with weeping.
With num’rous feet we'll part and meet.
Then chorus-like in a ring thy praises sing,
While showers of flowers bestrew thee,
We'll thus with tears bedew thee.
Rest in soft peace, sweet youth, and there remain
Till soul and body meet to join again.
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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