Sleep 2' 00" Baritone and piano (3 pages) £2.85
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Programme Notes
This setting of John Fletcher's poem fluctuates between troubled restlessness and moments of consolation as a result of shifting tonalities and the rather sumptuous, sensuous 'cushioning' offered by the piano part. Despite the B-flat minor key signature, the lack of a secure tonal centre renders this one of the composer's most chromatically adventurous solo songs – mirroring a yearning for happiness, however illusory or short-lived, that the poet expresses:
Come, Sleep, and with thy sweet deceiving
Lock me in delight awhile;
Let some pleasing dreams beguile
All my fancies; that from thence
I may feel an influence
All my powers of care bereaving!
Though but a shadow, but a sliding,
Let me know some little joy!
We that suffer long annoy
Are contented with a thought
Through an idle fancy wrought:
O let my joys have some abiding!
David M. Hoyle
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