Weep You No More, Sad Fountains (with Narration)

from The Willow Leaf - Poem Cycle by Bernard Herrmann

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Part of a three-part "Poem Cycle" by Bernard Herrmann and based upon the Elizabethan poem "Weep You No More, Sad Fountains", this beautiful 1934 "Melodram" by Bernard Herrmann captures the gentle, consoling tone of John Dowland's elegiac poetry.

This rare work not heard in over 80 years is lovingly captured by the Hollywood Studio Orchestra's performance and the eloquent reading by author Steven C. Smith.

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Weep you no more, sad fountains;
What need you flow so fast?
Look how the snowy mountains
Heaven’s sun doth gently waste.
But my sun’s heavenly eyes
View not your weeping,
That now lie sleeping
Softly, now softly lies
Sleeping.

Sleep is a reconciling,
A rest that peace begets.
Doth not the sun rise smiling
When fair at even he sets?
Rest you then, rest, sad eyes,
Melt not in weeping
While she lies sleeping
Softly, now softly lies
Sleeping

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from The Willow Leaf - Poem Cycle, track released January 1, 2021
Michael McGehee conducting
Hollywood Studio Orchestra

Steven C. Smith, Narrator

Principal Musicians
Sean Stackpoole, Flute
Jon Stehney, Oboe, Bassoon
Jason Beaumont, Horn
Teddi Barclay, Harp
Sarah Tatman, Violin, Viola
Caroline Chien-Galbraith, Cello

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