'Riddle Song'
From the album ‘A Double Celebration’
Composer John Rutter
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
Orchestra City of London Sinfonia
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Riddle Song
A movement from Fancies – a cycle of six choral settings, by John Rutter, of Elizabethan poetry by Campion, Herrick, Middleton, Shakespeare, and others.
I have a young sister
Far beyond the sea:
Many be the dowries
That she sent me.
She sent me the cherry
Withouten any stone;
And so she did the dove
Withouten any bone;
She sent me the briar
Withouten any rind;
She bade me love my lemman*
Withoute longing.
How should any cherry
Be withoute stone?
And how should any dove
Been withoute bone?
How should any briar
Been withoute rind?
How should love mine lemman
Without longing?
When the cherry was a flower
Then had it no stone;
When the dove was an egg
Then had it no bone;
When the briar was onbred†
Then had it no rind;
When the maiden hath that she loveth
She is without longing.
*lemman = lover †onbred = in the seed
(15th-century English)
A Double Celebration
A 55 track celebration to mark 30 years of the Cambridge Singers and the 70th birthday of John Rutter.
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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