Adieu, sweet Amaryllis - John Wilbye, John Rutter, Members of the Cambridge Singers

25. 'Adieu, sweet Amaryllis'
From the album ‘Flora gave me fairest flowers’

Composer John Wilbye
Conductor John Rutter
Choir Members of the Cambridge Singers

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Adieu, sweet Amaryllis
(John Wilbye, The First Set of English Madrigals to 3,4,5, and 6 voices, 1598)

Adieu, sweet Amaryllis,
For since to part your will is,
O heavy tiding,
Here is for me no biding.
Yet once again, ere that I part with you,
Amaryllis, sweet, adieu.

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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