Easeful Death (Requiem mvt IV excerpt by Nathaniel J.S. Barnes)
Video Information
- Choir: Orlando Chamber Singers
- Piece: Orlando, FL
- Composer: Nathaniel J. S. Barnes
- Conductor: Gregory Ruffer
- Voices: SSA with orchestra
- Genres: Classical, Contemporary
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An excerpt from movement IV of my Requiem (2007) as performed by the Orlando Chamber Singers under the direction of Gregory Ruffer.
text: Keats (from Ode to a Nightingale)
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I... moreAn excerpt from movement IV of my Requiem (2007) as performed by the Orlando Chamber Singers under the direction of Gregory Ruffer.
text: Keats (from Ode to a Nightingale)
Darkling I listen; and, for many a time
I have been half in love with easeful Death,
Call'd him soft names in many a musèd rhyme,
To take into the air my quiet breath;
Now more than ever seems it rich to die,
To cease upon the midnight with no pain