Let Us Garlands Bring
Let Us Garlands Bring , op. 18 , is a cycle of songs by Gerald Finzi for baritone and piano .
Finzi composed the five songs of the cycle between 1929 and 1942; all based on texts from plays by William Shakespeare . The world premiere took place on October 12, 1942 on the occasion of the seventieth birthday of Ralph Vaughan Williams in the National Gallery of London .
The songs (and their text templates) in detail:
- Come Away, Come Away, Death (from What you want )
- Who is Silvia? (from Two Gentlemen from Verona )
- Fear No More the Heat o 'the Sun (from Cymbeline )
- O Mistress Mine (from What You Want )
- It Was a Lover and His Lass (from As You Like It )
There is an arrangement for baritone and string orchestra by the composer.
Web links
- Let Us Garlands Bring : Sheet Music and Audio Files in the International Music Score Library Project