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innisfree

2017 - SATB a cappella c.5'

Words by Y.B.Yeats

A short setting of The Lake Isle of Innisfree by W.B.Yeats, composed during my undergraduate studies at the University of Glasgow. 

I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,

And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;

Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,

And live alone in the bee-loud glade.

 

And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,

Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;

There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,

And evening full of the linnet’s wings.

 

I will arise and go now, for always night and day

I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;

While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

Performances/Recordings

 

Premiered by the University of Glasgow Chapel Choir conducted by Katie Cooper, 21st of February 2017. Listen

 

Performed by the Cambridge Masters Choir conducted by Harold Thalange, 13th of March 2019.  Listen

 

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