3 Shakespeare Songs of Ralph Vaughan Williams - Netherlands Chamber Choir (score)

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3 Shakespeare Songs (1951, IRV 72)

by Ralph Vaughan Williams  (1872 ~ 1958)

1. Full fathom five - The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2

2. The cloud-capp'd towers - The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1 (Prospero)

3. Over Hill, Over Dale - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene 1

1. Full fathom five The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2 :	Full fathom five thy father lies, Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes: Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell: Ding-dong. Hark! now I hear them, - ding-dong bell.
2. The cloud-capp'd towers The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1 (Prospero)	The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.
3. Over Hill, Over Dale A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene 1	Over hill, over dale, Thorough bush, thorough briar, Over park, over pale, Thorough flood, thorough fire I do wander everywhere. Swifter than the moon's sphere; And I serve the fairy queen, To dew her orbs upon the green. The cowslips tall her pensioners be; In their gold coats spots you see; Those be rubies, fairy favours, In those freckles live their savours: I must go seek some dew-drops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

Netherlands Chamber Choir, with John Alldis

1. Full fathom five - The Tempest, Act I, Scene 2

2. The cloud-capp'd towers - The Tempest, Act IV, Scene 1 (Prospero)

3. Over Hill, Over Dale - A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act II, Scene 1