I have a favourite above all others (at the moment)
It is by
Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958) the English composer, born in Gloucestershire
"Orpheus with his Lute"
written to words by Shakespeare:
Orpheus with his lute made trees,
And the mountain-tops that freeze,
Bow themselves, when he did sing:
To his music, plants and flowers
Ever sprung; as sun and showers
There had made a lasting spring.
Everything that heard him play,
Even the billows of the sea
Hung their heads, and then lay by.
In sweet music is such art:
Killing care and grief of heart
Fall asleep, or, hearing, die.
I don't know which is more beautiful: the words or the music
He is buried in Westminster Abbey in London
Please tell me yours?
Peace & Love
2007-03-19 07:49:45 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE OF LIFE.
by monty python.
2007-03-19 07:59:10 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you heard the song "Silent Noon" by the same composer? It is an infinitely delicate love song.
Your hands lie open in the long fresh grass.
The finger points look through like rosy blooms.
Your eyes smile peace.
The meadow gleams and glooms neath billowing clouds
that scatter and amass.
All round our nest,far as the eye can pass,
are golden kingcup fields with silver edge
where the cow-parsley skirts the hawthorn hedge.
Tis visible silence, still as the hourglass.
Deep in the sun-searched growths
the dragonfly hangs like a blue thread, loosened from the sky.
So this winged hour is dropt to us from above.
Oh, clasp we to our hearts for deathless dower,
this close-companioned, inarticulate hour,
When twofold silence
Was the song of love.
text by Christina Rossetti
It is most often sung by baritone or mezzo-soprano.
Very gentle, very heart felt.
I hope you like it!
2007-03-19 17:15:54 · answer #2 · answered by lynndramsop 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Speed Metal Symphony - Cacophony
2007-03-19 17:05:18 · answer #3 · answered by tearsofmyguitar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Um Mitternacht â At midnight
GUSTAV MAHLAR
TO A POEM = Friedrich Rückert.
JIM..
2007-03-19 16:07:12 · answer #4 · answered by jim m 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Bach ..... Brandenburg concerto no 3
Faure ..... Pavane
and of course
Beethovens ..... Moonlight sonata
2007-03-19 15:09:03 · answer #5 · answered by dottydog 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋