Lay a garland - Robert Lucas Pearsall, John Rutter, The Cambridge Singers

'Lay a garland'
From the album 'Cambridge Singers A Cappella'

Composer Robert Lucas Pearsall
Conductor John Rutter
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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LYRICS:
Lay a garland on her hearse
Of dismal yew;
Maidens willow branches wear;
Say she dièd true,
Her love was false, but she was firm.
Upon her buried body lie lightly,
Thou gentle earth.

(Beaumont and Fletcher)

Lay a garland
The intriguing figure of Robert Lucas Pearsall, composer and antiquarian, still largely awaits rediscovery. After early law studies in Bristol, he suffered a minor stroke and thereafter lived the life of a musical dilettante, mostly in Germany where he settled in 1825. Contact with the Cecilian movement there led him to cultivate elements of ‘antique’ style in his compositions, most of which were choral and small-scale. Of his twenty or so published madrigals, Lay a garland (1840) is perhaps the best-known.Despite similarities to Mendelssohn and S. S. Wesley, it is a work of striking individuality and beauty. Pearsall wrote uncommonly well for voices: his choral music has that indefinable ‘ring’, instantly recognizable in the work of an authentic choral composer.

Cambridge Singers A Cappella
This album explores the great wealth of music written for unaccompanied choir in England, France and Germany during the Romantic era and into the twentieth century. The pure, distilled beauty of the a cappella medium inspired the composers heard on this album to some of their most poetic and delightful compositions.

John Rutter, English composer and conductor, is associated with choral music throughout the world. His recordings with the Cambridge Singers (the professional chamber choir he set up in 1981) have reached a wide global audience, many of them featuring his own music in definitive versions. Among John’s best-known choral works are Gloria, Requiem, Magnificat, Mass of the Children, and Visions, together with many church anthems, choral songs and Christmas carols.

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