Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal

Eakins Vocal Consort of Philadelphia performs "Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal." Text by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Setting by Allen McCullough.

From "Poetic Voices" - a November 2007 premiere of new works by Philadelphia-area composers.

Conducted by Tim Ribchester.

Featured soloists: Anna Bridges, Erika Haglund, Patrick Hanley*

Text:

Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white;
Nor waves the cypress in the palace walk;
Nor winks the gold fin in the porphyry font:
The fire-fly wakens: waken thou with me.

Now droops the milkwhite peacock like a ghost,
And like a ghost she glimmers on to me.

Now lies the Earth all Danaë to the stars,
And all thy heart lies open unto me.

Now slides the silent meteor on, and leaves
A shining furrow, as thy thoughts in me.

Now folds the lily all her sweetness up,
And slips into the bosom of the lake:
So fold thyself, my dearest, thou, and slip
Into my bosom and be lost in me.

*Um, that's me, greekphilosophy.

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posted by greekphilosophy (3 comments total)

Very nice to hear some chamber art music here. That's quite a challenging piece. Thanks for sharing this performance.

I think this needs the mefimusicchallenge tag being choral and submitted in march.
posted by dagosto at 3:20 PM on April 1

Thanks dagosto! I hadn't taken the time to figure out what those music challenges were, so I didn't even know there was a choral one going on! Fun!
posted by greekphilosophy at 9:40 AM on April 2

At first I thought the podcast ended and I was listening to whatever was on random on my player. And then I looked and smiled, glad that MeFiMu was even more varied than I had imagined.
posted by not_on_display at 1:56 PM on June 16