Sweet Suffolk owl - Thomas Vautor, John Rutter, Members of the Cambridge Singers
6. 'Sweet Suffolk owl'
From the album ‘Flora gave me fairest flowers’
Composer Thomas Vautor
Conductor John Rutter
Choir Members of the Cambridge Singers
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Sweet Suffolk owl
(Thomas Vautor, The First Set . . . Apt for Vyols and Voyces, 1619)
LYRICS:
Sweet Suffolk owl, so trimly dight
With feathers like a lady bright,
Thou sing’st alone, sitting by night,
Te whit, te whoo, te whit, te whoo.
Thy note, that forth so freely rolls,
With shrill command the mouse controls,
And sings a dirge for dying souls,
Te whit, te whoo, te whit, te whoo
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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