Video Information

• Choir: Downtown Voices
• Piece: Five Mystical Songs
• Composer:  Vaughan Williams
• Conductor:  Stephen Sands
• Voices:  SATB
• Genres: Classical
• Five Mystical Songs - Vaughan Williams
  Downtown Voices
  Edmund Milly, baritone
  Janet Yieh, organ
  Stephen Sands, conductor
  
  Trinity Church, NYC
  
  Five Mystical Songs
  Song Cycle by Ralph Vaugha...  moreFive Mystical Songs - Vaughan Williams
  Downtown Voices
  Edmund Milly, baritone
  Janet Yieh, organ
  Stephen Sands, conductor
  
  Trinity Church, NYC
  
  Five Mystical Songs
  Song Cycle by Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
  
  Text Authorship:
  by George Herbert (1593 - 1633)
  
  1. Easter
  Rise heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise
  Without delays,
  Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise
  With him may'st rise;
  That, as his death calcined thee to dust,
  His life may make thee gold, and much more, Just.
  
  Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part
  With all thy art.
  The cross taught all wood to resound his name
  Who bore the same.
  His stretched sinews taught all strings, what key
  Is best to celebrate this most high day.
  
  Consort both heart and lute, and twist a song
  Pleasant and long:
  Or since all music is but three parts vied,
  And multiplied;
  O let thy blessed Spirit bear a part,
  And make up our defects with his sweet art.
  
  2. I got me flowers
  I got me flowers to strew thy way;
  I got me boughs off many a tree:
  But  less