Чарлз Айвз (Charles Ives) - 5 songs | Текст песни

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• Чарлз Айвз (Charles Ives)
• 5 songs

Dawn Upshaw, soprano
Orchestra of St. Luke's
John Adams, conductor
New York City, Manhattan Center Studios, August 1989

1. Thoreau (1920)
text by Ives, after H. Thoreau

2. Down East (1919)
text by Ives

3. Cradle Song (1919)

Hush thee, dear child to slumbers;
We will sing softest numbers;
Nought thy sleeping encumbers.

Summer is slowly dying;
Autumnal winds are sighing;
Faded leaflets are flying.

Brightly the willows quiver;
Peacefully flows the river;
So shall love flow forever.

A. L. Ives, 1846

4. At the River (1916)

Shall we gather at the river,
Where bright angel feet have trod;
With its crystal tide forever
Flowing by the throne of God?

Yes, we'll gather at the river,
The beautiful, the beautiful river,
Yes, we'll gather at the river,
That flows by the throne of God.

R. Lowry

5. Serenity (1919)

O, Sabbath rest of Galilee!
O, calm of hills above,
Where Jesus knelt to share with Thee,
the silence of eternity
Interpreted by love.
Drop Thy still dews of quietness,
till all our strivings cease:
Take from our souls the strain and stress,
and let our ordered lives confess,
the beauty of thy peace.

John Greenleaf Whittier, 1872