Come live with me (Birthday Madrigals) - John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers

'Come live with me' - from Birthday Madrigals
From the album ‘Feel the Spirit’
Composer John Rutter
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers
Double Bass Malcolm Creese
Piano Wayne Marshall
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LYRICS:
Come live with me, and be my love,
And we will all the pleasures prove
That hills and valleys, dales and fields,
And all the craggy mountains yields.
If all the world and love were young,
And truth in ev’ry shepherd’s tongue,
These pretty pleasures might me move
To live with thee and be thy love.
And we will sit upon the rocks,
Seeing the shepherds feed their flocks,
By shallow rivers, to whose falls
Melodious birds sing madrigals.
Time drives the flocks from field to fold,
When rivers rage and rocks grow cold;
And Philomel becometh dumb;
The rest complains of cares to come.
And I will make thee beds of roses,
And a thousand fragrant posies,
A cap of flowers, and a kirtle
Embroider’d all with leaves of myrtle.
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields
To wayward winter reckoning yields:
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.
A gown made of the finest wool,
Which from our pretty lambs we pull;
Fair linèd slippers for the cold,
With buckles of the purest gold;
Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies,
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten,
In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
The shepherd swains shall dance and
sing
For thy delight each May morning:
If these delights thy mind may move,
Then live with me and be my love.
If youth could last, and love still breed,
Had joys no date, nor age no need,
Then these delights my mind might move
To live with thee and be thy love.
(Verses 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 Christopher Marlowe;
2, 4, 6, 8,10 attributed to Walter Raleigh)
Birthday Madrigals 3 - Come live with me
'Birthday Madrigals' is a musical tribute, by John Rutter, written in 1995 to celebrate the 75th birthday of George Shearing. The five pieces can only be called madrigals in that their texts come from the era of the Elizabethan madrigal; their musical style is only loosely madrigalian, showing a mixture of light jazz influence in nos. 1, 3, and 5, and a flavour of the English part-song tradition in nos. 2 and 4.
Feel the Spirit
Strong, stirring spirituals and tuneful, jazz-flavoured settings of Shakespeare’s timeless lyrics are the mouth-watering ingredients of the Cambridge Singers’ album Feel the Spirit. John Rutter has written vivid arrangements of seven well-loved American spirituals for choir, with soloist Melanie Marshall and the BBC Concert Orchestra joining together with the Cambridge Singers for this world première recording.
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 1983) 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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Useful to hear as studying in our choir!😁

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same here 😂