John Dowland | Come heavy sleep

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Bernhard Landauer (countertenor)
Cecilio Perera (lute)

For the concert series "Treffpunkt Solitär - Die Gitarre" (production Matthias Seidel)
As part of the programm:
„Go, crystal tears" - the spirit connects
Remembering Benjamin Britten at his 100th and John Dowland at his 450th anniversary.

November 6 th 2013 at the „Solitär", University of Arts Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria.

Come, heavy Sleep, the image of true Death,
And close up these my weary weeping eyes,
Whose spring of tears doth stop my vital breath?
And tears my heart with Sorrow's sigh-swoll'n cries.
Come and possess my tired thought-worn soul,
That living dies, till thou on me be stole.

Come, shadow of my end and shape of rest,
Allied to death, child to his black-fac'd night;
Come thou, and charm these rebels in my breast,
Whose waking fancies do my mind affright?
O come, sweet sleep, come, or I die for ever;
Come, ere my last sleep comes, or come never.