Composer Orlando Gibbons was the leading English composer of his time the late 16th and early 17th century. This five-Voice SSATB madrigal is the best known of his many madrigals and remains compellingly beautiful.The sheet music also includes A Catch on Tobacco by theologian philosopher and composer Dr Henry Aldrich. It dates from 1685 when the composer was Dean of Christ Church Oxford and widely known among his contemporaries as a convivial soul who among his writings created a Latin epigramme listing five reasons for drinking. The performance notes stipulate that the round is to be sung by four men while smoking their pipes.

Par ECCARD JOHANNES. Gattungen: Messen, lateinisch, Motetten - Langue : Latin / Messe / Répertoire / Choeur SSATB

Par KOMMA KARL-MICHAEL. Marienfeste, Marianische Gesänge - Langue : Latin / Hymnes et chorals / Répertoire / Choeur SSATB

Tonalité : C-Dur -. Par ROSSINI GIOACHINO. Gattungen: Weltliche Chorsätze - Langue : Latin/ Répertoire / Choeur SSATB

The harmonic turns and piano configurations in La vie ant?rieure ??? the ???former life??? ??? seem almost exuberantly lyrical. At the beginning the archaic sounds and words of the male choir conjure up a dream world that is soon flooded with the power of the waves and the rich polyphonic harmony of the choir and the piano. With the outcry ???C???est l? que j???ai v?cu!??? [I have lived there] which expresses the fervent yearning to return to a past life the collective desperately reinforces the longing for the past. Once more the women???s choir conjures up this lost paradise in an undulating soft sound before the desolate sadness is pierced by the power of the music of the piano postlude creating a moment that is completely in the present.