In Darkness Let Me Dwell - John Dowland

Details
Title | In Darkness Let Me Dwell - John Dowland |
Author | VOCES8 |
Duration | 4:09 |
File Format | MP3 / MP4 |
Original URL | https://youtube.com/watch?v=t_ZUOcfic_U |
Description
Co-founders of VOCES8, Barnaby Smith (countertenor) and Paul Smith (piano) perform 'In Darkness Let Me Dwell' by John Dowland as part of the 'Lullabies in Time and Space' concert live during lockdown from the VOCES8 Centre.
The full concert can be found here https://vimeo.com/ondemand/lullabiesintimeandspace
NOTES
'In Darkness Let Me Dwell' is a song ascribed to the lutenist and composer John Dowland. Published in 1610, late in Dowland's career, the song shows the influence of Italian music of the early baroque. It was published in A Musical Banquet, a 1610 anthology of songs for lute and voice from England, France, Italy, and Spain compiled by Robert Dowland, John's son.
The text for Dowland's setting utilises the first stanza of an anonymous poem included in the 1606 song collection Funeral Teares by John Coprario. Dowland's setting eventually became more famous than the Coprario setting.
TEXT
In darkness let me dwell; the ground shall sorrow be,
The roof despair, to bar all cheerful light from me;
The walls of marble black, that moist'ned still shall weep;
My music, hellish jarring sounds, to banish friendly sleep.
Thus, wedded to my woes, and bedded to my tomb,
O let me living die, till death doth come, till death doth come.
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