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Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 1 27/05/2017 12:02 recording Charterhouse School Chapel, Surrey 9-11 July 2016 recording producer Adrian Peacock balance engineer Neil Hutchinson editing Paul McCreesh, Adrian Peacock, David Hinitt All recording and editing facilities by Classic Sound Limited, London sources and publishers Stanford, The Blue Bird © 1910 Stainer & Bell Elgar, There is sweet music © 1908 Novello & Company Ltd Vaughan Williams, Silence and Music © 1953 Oxford University Press Howells, The summer is coming © 1965 Novello & Company Ltd Grainger, Brigg Fair © 1911 Schott & Company Vaughan Williams, Bushes and Briars © 1936 Novello & Company Ltd Vaughan Williams, The winter is gone © 1912 Novello & Company Ltd Vaughan Williams, The Turtle Dove © 1924 J Curwen & Sons MacMillan, The Gallant Weaver © 1997 Boosey & Hawkes Dove, Who killed Cock Robin? © 1995 Faber Music Grainger, The Three Ravens © 1950 Schott & Company Britten, The Evening Primrose © 1951 Boosey & Hawkes Warlock, All the flowers of the spring © 1923 Thames Publishing Elgar, Owls (An Epitaph) © 1908 Novello & Company Ltd Vaughan Williams, Rest © 1902 Bosworth & Company photography © Paul McCreesh image of paul mccreesh © Ben Wright cd series concept and design www.abrahams.uk.com Released under licence to Winged Lion www.wingedlionrecords.com Silence & Music Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 2 27/05/2017 12:02 Silence & Music gabrieli consort paul mccreesh Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 3 27/05/2017 12:02 programme 1 the blue bird 3.53 Charles Villiers Stanford (1852-1924) 2 there is sweet music 4.42 Edward Elgar (1857-1934) 3 silence and music 5.18 Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872-1958) 4 the summer is coming 7.34 Herbert Howells (1892-1983) 5 brigg fair 2.59 Percy Grainger (1882-1961) 6 bushes and briars 2.10 Ralph Vaughan Williams 7 the winter is gone 1.41 Ralph Vaughan Williams 8 the turtle dove 2.58 Ralph Vaughan Williams Silence & Music Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 4 27/05/2017 12:02 9 the gallant weaver 6.11 James MacMillan (b.1959) 10 who killed cock robin? 8.15 Jonathan Dove (b.1959) 11 the three ravens 4.30 Percy Grainger 12 the evening primrose 3.11 Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) 13 all the flowers of the spring 6.23 Peter Warlock (1894-1930) 14 owls (an epitaph) 3.38 Edward Elgar 15 rest 4.15 Ralph Vaughan Williams total running time 67.41 Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 5 27/05/2017 12:02 Silence & Music Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 6 27/05/2017 12:02 Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 7 27/05/2017 12:02 the blue bird The lake lay blue below the hill, there is sweet music 1910 O’er it, as I looked, there flew 1907 Across the waters, cold and still, Charles Villiers Edward Elgar A bird whose wings were palest blue. Stanford Alfred, Lord Tennyson Mary Coleridge The sky above was blue at last, (1809-1892) (1861-1907) The sky beneath me blue in blue, A moment, ere the bird had passed, It caught his image as he flew. Silence & Music Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 8 27/05/2017 12:02 there is sweet music There is sweet music here that softer falls 1907 Than petals from blown roses on the grass, Or night dews on still waters between walls Edward Elgar Of shadowy granite, in a gleaming pass; Alfred, Lord Tennyson Music that gentlier on the spirit lies, (1809-1892) Than tir’d eyelids upon tir’d eyes; Music that brings sweet sleep down from the blissful skies. Here are cool mosses deep, And thro’ the moss the ivies creep, And in the stream the long-leaved flowers weep, And from the craggy ledge the poppy hangs in sleep. Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 9 27/05/2017 12:02 silence and music Silence, come first: I see a sleeping swan, the summer 1953 wings closed and drifting where the water leads, is coming a winter moon, a grove where shadows dream, 1965 Ralph a hand outstretched to gather hollow reeds. Vaughan Williams Herbert Howells Ursula Wood The four winds in their litanies can tell Bryan Guinness (1911-2007) all of earth’s stories as they weep and cry, (1905-1992) the sea names all the treasure of her tides, the birds rejoice between the earth and sky. Voices of grief and from the heart of joy; so near to comprehension do we stand that wind and sea and all of winged delight lie in the octaves of man’s voice and hand, and music wakes from silence, where it slept. Silence & Music Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 10 27/05/2017 12:02 the summer The summer is coming over the hills. is coming The milk of the blackthorn is bursting and spills; 1965 all day the cuckoo in County Mayo breathes like a flute as he flits high and low. Herbert Howells Bryan Guinness Dark is the turf, and grey is the stone, (1905-1992) and sad is the sky for the wild geese gone. But the gleaming coat of the grass begins under the golden brooch of the whins. The black boats walk on the silver strand, like beetles that go on the edge of the land; the black boats tilt on the western waves; black heifers stand over the old green graves. The summer is coming over the sea, and lights with soft kisses on you and on me. All day the cuckoo in County Mayo breathes like a flute as he flits high and low. The summer is coming over the hills. The milk of the blackthorn is bursting and spills; all day the cuckoo in County Mayo breathes like a flute as he flits high and low. Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 11 27/05/2017 12:02 Silence & Music Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 12 27/05/2017 12:02 Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 13 27/05/2017 12:02 brigg fair It was on the fifth of August, er the weather fine and fair, bushes and briars 1906 rev 1911 unto Brigg Fair I did repair, for love I was inclined. 1908 I rose up with the lark in the morning, with my heart so full of glee, Percy Grainger Ralph of thinking there to meet my dear, long time I’d wished to see. Vaughan Williams Traditional I took hold of her lily white hand, O and merrily was her heart: ‘And now we’re met together, I hope we ne’er shall part.’ Traditional For it’s meeting is a pleasure, and parting is a grief, but an unconstant lover is worse than any thief. The green leaves they shall wither and the branches they shall die If ever I prove false to her, to the girl that loves me. Silence & Music Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 14 27/05/2017 12:02 bushes and briars Through bushes and through briars I lately took my way; 1908 all for to hear the small birds sing and the lambs to skip and play. I overheard my own true love, her voice it was so clear, Ralph ‘Long time I have been waiting for the coming of my dear. Vaughan Williams Sometimes I am uneasy and troubled in my mind, Traditional sometimes I think I’ll go to my love and tell to him my mind. And if I should go to my love, my love he will say nay, if I show to him my boldness, he’ll ne’er love me again.’ Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 15 27/05/2017 12:02 the winter is gone The winter is gone and the summer is come, the turtle dove 1912 The meadows are pleasant and gay, 1924 The lark in the morning so sweetly she sings, Ralph Ralph And sweet smells the blossom of May. Vaughan Williams Vaughan Williams Traditional Young Johnny the ploughboy comes whistling along Traditional With his horses, to follow the plough; The blackbirds and thrushes sing in the green bush, And the dairy maid milking her cow. He took the fair maid by her lily white hand, On the green bushy bank they sat down; Then he placèd a kiss on her sweet ruby lips, A tree spread its branches around. It was early next morning he made her his bride, Their vows in the church for to pay, So bells they did ring, and the bride she did sing, As he crowned her the queen of the May. Silence & Music Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 16 27/05/2017 12:02 the turtle dove Fare you well, my dear, I must be gone, 1924 And leave you for a while; If I roam away I’ll come back again, Ralph Though I roam ten thousand miles, my dear, Vaughan Williams Though I roam ten thousand miles. Traditional So fair thou art, my bonny lass, So deep in love am I; But I never will prove false to the bonny lass I love, Till the stars fall from the sky, my dear, Till the stars fall from the sky. The sea will never run dry, my dear, Nor the rocks melt with the sun, But I never will prove false to the bonny lass I love, Till all these things be done, my dear, Till all these things be done. O yonder doth sit that little turtle dove, He doth sit on yonder high tree, A-making a moan for the loss of his love, As I will do for thee, my dear, As I will do for thee. Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 17 27/05/2017 12:02 the gallant weaver 1995 James MacMillan Robert Burns (1759-1796) Silence & Music Silence & Music Booklet_Layout_5 final.indd 18 27/05/2017 12:02 the gallant weaver Where Cart rins rowin to the sea, 1995 By mony a flow’r and spreading tree, There lives a lad, the lad for me, James MacMillan He is the gallant Weaver.