Ivor Gurney (1890-1937): "Sleep" from Five Elizabethan Songs
Samuel Ary, tenor
Dror Baitel, piano
Performed on October 28, 2022 at Sacred Music at Notre Dame's "Liederabend".
Sleep by John Fletcher (1579-1625)
Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Lock me in delight awhile;
Let some pleasing dreams beguile
All my fancies; that from thence
I may feel an influence
All my powers of care bereaving!
Though but a shadow, but a sliding,
Let me know some little joy!
We that suffer long annoy
Are contented with a thought
Through an idle fancy wrought:
O let my joys have some abiding!
I do not own this video - it was spliced from the YouTube live stream of SMND's Liederabend.
