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And now to bed I hie

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Francis Pilkington (c1565 - 1638): Rest, sweet nymphs, ayre (dal First Book of Songs or Airs of Four Parts, 1605, n. 6).
– versione per 1 voce e liuto: Valeria Mignaco (soprano) e Alfonso Marin;
– versione a 4 voci a cappella: Laudantes Consort.

Rest, sweet nymphs, let golden sleep
Charm your star brighter eyes,
While my lute the watch doth keep
With pleasing sympathies.
Lulla, lullaby. Lulla, lullaby.
Sleep sweetly, sleep sweetly,
Let nothing affright ye,
In calm contentments lie.

Dream, fair virgins, of delight
And blest Elysian groves,
While the wandring shades of night
Resemble your true loves.
Lulla, lullaby. Lulla, lullaby.
Your kisses, your blisses,
Send them by your wishes,
Although they be not nigh.

Thus, dear damsels, I do give
‘Good night’, and so am gone:
With your hearts’ desires long live,
Still joy, and never moan.
Lulla, lullaby. Lulla, lullaby.
Hath pleased you and eased you,
And sweet slumber seized you,
And now to bed I hie.

Sonya’s Lullaby

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Oliver Knussen (12 giugno 1952 - 2018): Sonya’s Lullaby op. 16 (1977). Melanie Spanswick, pianoforte.

« The word Lullaby is used in the sense of an incantation to sleep; Sonya is my daughter, who was a four-month-old insomniac in October 1977 when the first sketch of this piece was written. Formally the music is, I hope, self-explanatory –- but perhaps it is worth mentioning that an initials stimulus toward the piano writing was the harmonic exploitation of overtones produced from the lowest register of the instrument by composers as diverse as Brahms, Scriabin, Copland and Carter » (Oliver Knussen).