Quick, quick, away, dispatch! - Michael East, John Rutter, Members of the Cambridge Singers
16. 'Quick, quick, away, dispatch!'
From the album ‘Flora gave me fairest flowers’
Composer Michael East
Conductor John Rutter
Choir Members of the Cambridge Singers
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Quick, quick, away, dispatch!
(Michael East, The Fourth Set of Bookes, 1618)
LYRICS:
Quick, quick, away, dispatch!
Be nimble, quick, away!
Bells are a-ringing,
Maids are singing,
The priest for you doth stay.
An holiday, a happy day, a merry day!
The last of nothing,
The first of something.
Be nimble, quick, away!
No haste but good, yet stay!
A while of freeI bound must be,
But bound to him that’s bound to me;
Such bondage makes me free.
Flora gave me fairest flowers
John Rutter directs members of the Cambridge Singers in a programme of English Madrigals from a number of composers including Weelkes, Wilbye, Morley and Byrd.
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 1981) 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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