Something rich and strange

Due brani cantati da Ariele nella Tempesta (1610-11) di William Shakespeare:
– Full fathom five (atto I, scena 2^a)
– Where the bee sucks (atto V, scena 1^a)
La musica è di Robert Johnson (c1583 - 1633), il quale collaborò con Shakespeare scri­vendo brani per i suoi ultimi drammi. Canta Alfred Deller, accom­pa­gnato al liuto da Desmond Dupré.

Two pieces sung by Ariel in Shakespeare’s The Tempest (1610-11):
– Full fathom five (act I, 2^nd scene)
– Where the bee sucks (act V, 1^st scene)
Music is by Robert Johnson (c1583-1633), who worked with Shakespeare providing music for his later plays. Alfred Deller, haute-contre; Desmond Dupré, lute.

---

Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made,
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Hark! now I hear them:
Ding-dong, bell.

---

Where the bee sucks, there suck I,
In a cowslip’s bell I lie,
There I couch when owls do cry,
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
  Merrily, merrily shall I live now
  Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.