Come Away

Instrumentation

Alto
1
Bass
1
Soprano
1
Tenor
1

Additional Information

a cappella SATB choir

2013

Duration 8’

Instrumentation a cappella SATB choir

First Performance 2 May 2015, Chester Cathedral, UK; Philip Rushforth (conductor)

Commissioned by Philip Rushforth for the choir of Chester Cathedral and in loving memory of Capt. William Robert and Mrs Vera Willis

Further Performances

7.6.15 10:30 Kings College, Cambridge; Kings College Choir, Stephen Cleobury conductor

11.7.15 St Brandon’s Church, Brancepeth, Durham; The Durham Singers, Julian Wright  conductor

18.7.15 St. Michael & All Angels Church, Buckinghamshire; The Choir of St. Michael & All Angels Church

18.9.15 National Portrait Gallery, London; The Portrait Choir

19.9.15 National Portrait Gallery, London; The Portrait Choir

27.9.15 Hatfield House Chamber Music Festival, Hertfordshire; The Choir of King’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury conductor

http://composersedition.com/charlotte-bray-come-away

 

from Song of Solomon

I

Winter is Past

2:10-13

My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one,

and come away.

For, lo, the winter is past,

the rain is over and gone;

The flowers appear on the earth;

the time of the singing of birds is come,

and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land;

The fig tree putteth forth her green figs,

and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one,

and come away.

II

Among the Lilies

2:16, 1:2

My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

III

Many Waters

8:6-7

Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm:

for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave:

the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it:

if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

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Details

Year
Publisher
Composers Edition

Chester
United Kingdom

Minutes
8

Recordings