Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child - Kenneth Leighton, John Rutter, Cambridge Singers
18. 'Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child' Kenneth Leighton
From the album ‘The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album’
Composer Kenneth Leighton
Conductor John Rutter
Soprano Caroline Ashton
Choir The Cambridge Singers
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Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child
Written in 1948 when its composer was only eighteen, this poignant and dramatic setting of the so-called Coventry Carol text has become one of Leighton’s best-known shorter works.
LYRICS:
Lully, lulla, thou little tiny child,
By by, lully lullay.
O sisters too, how may we do
For to preserve this day
This poor youngling, for whom we sing
By by, lully lullay.
Herod the king, in his raging
Charg’d he hath this day
His men of might, in his own sight,
All young children to slay
That woe is me, poor child for thee!
And ever morn and may,
For thy parting nor say nor sing
By by, lully lullay
Kenneth Leighton (1929–88)
Words from the Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors, 1591
The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album
John Rutter selects some of his favourite Christmas carols, old and new, from classic Cambridge Singers recordings, including several of his own arrangements, closing with Vaughan Williams' majestic 'Fantasia on Christmas Carols'.
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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