'The three ravens'
From the album ‘There is sweet music’ - English choral songs 1890-1950

Traditional ballad, arranged by Edward T. Chapman
Conductor John Rutter
Baritone Nicholas Sears
Choir The Cambridge Singers

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LYRICS:
There were three rav’ns sat on a tree
Down a down, hey down, hey down,
There were three rav’ns sat on a tree,
With a down,
There were three rav’ns sat on a tree,
They were as black as they might be.
With a down derry, derry, derry down, down.

Then one of them said to his mate,
‘O, where shall we our breakfast take?’
Down, down in yonder green field,
There lies a knight slain ’neath his shield.

His hounds they lie down at his feet,
So well do they their master keep,
His hawks they fly so eagerly
There’s no fowl that dare him come nigh.

Down there comes a fallow doe,
As great with young as she might go.
She lifted up his bloody head,
And kissed his wounds that were so red.

She got him up upon her back,
And carried him to earthen lake.
She buried him before the prime,
She was dead herself ere evensong time.

God send ev’ry gentleman,
Such hawks and hounds and such a loved one.

There is sweet music
Featuring masterpieces by Benjamin Britten (Five Flower Songs), Vaughan Williams (Three Shakespeare Songs), Stanford, Delius and Elgar alongside folk-song arrangements by Bairstow, Chapman, Grainger, Holst, Moeran and Stanford, this collection highlights a golden age of the English part-song, now somewhat neglected but nonetheless offering many gem-like compositions worthy of re-investigation.

“These performances are a joy to listen to” BBC Record Review

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 1983) 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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