SATB choir
SKU:
ST.CN12P
Composed by
Ronald Corp. ChoralNow.
This PRINTED version is
available to purchase as
a regular sheet music
title for delivery by
post. Octavo. Stainer &
Bell Ltd. #CN12P.
Published by Stainer &
Bell Ltd. (ST.CN12P).
ISBN
9790220224690.
Amon
g the UK's most noted
choral composers and
conductors, Ronald Corp
does not hesitate to
bring his own musical
vision to a much-loved
poem by the
sixteenth-century
lutenist songwriter and
'Doctor of Physick'
Thomas Campion, following
the example not only of
Campion himself but also
of Charles Wood and
Hubert Parry. Eschewing
the manner of Parry's
resonant polyphony for a
simple harmonised setting
in a flexible verbal
rhythm reflecting the
measure of the words,
this is a heartfelt plea
for spiritual release
uttered in a quietly
elegiac tone, in which
the serenity of the
entreaty rather than its
pathos is to the
fore.
