RIGEL'S HOUSE RECITAL (8/19), ΧΩΡΑΦΆΚΙΑ ΚΡΉΤΗΣ, SUNDAY 17 MAY 2015

Never Weather Beaten Sail
The First Booke of Ayres 1613 by Thomas Campion
Rigel - Voice
Mary Lou - Modern Violin
Grier - Tenor Recorder
Bjorno - 8 Course Renaissance Lute Ron Snell Luthier

Commonly referred to as "Lute Songs" such books of songs by Campion and many others in early17th century England were printed using Wood Block Printing and thus became affordable and widely disseminated. Usually in four vocal parts with lute tablature, this genre allowed for solo voice and self accompaniment or with all four parts sung SATB together with lute accompaniment.

Never weather-beaten sail more willing bent to shore.
Never tired pilgrim's limbs affected slumber more,
Than my wearied sprite now longs to fly out of my troubled breast:
O come quickly, sweetest Lord, and take my soul to rest.

Ever blooming are the joys of Heaven's high Paradise.
Cold age deafs not there our ears nor vapour dims our eyes:
Glory there the sun outshines whose beams the blessed only see:
O come quickly, glorious Lord, and raise my sprite to thee!