Ricardo Iznaola-Corinna's Songbook, for mezzo-soprano and piano, 3: Slumber Song

Mezzo-soprano Marcia Ragonetti and pianist Heidi Brende Leathwood perform Ricardo Iznaola's Corinna's Songbook, a set of four songs based on English poems, recorded live on May 4, 2009 in Denver. This is the third, on a poem by Siegfried Sassoon (1886 -- 1967) that reads: Sleep; and my song shall build about your bed/Aparadise of dimness. You shall feel/The folding of tired wings; and peace will dwell/Throned in your silence: and one hour shall hold/Summer, and midnight, and immensity/Lulled to forgetfullness./For, where you dream,/The stately gloom of foliage shall embower/Your slumbering thought with tapestries of blue./And there shall be no memory of the sky, /Nor sunlight with its cruelty of swords./But, to your soul that sinks from deep to deep/Through drowned and glimmering colour, Time shall be/Only slow rhythmic swaying; and your breath;/And roses in the darkness; and my love.

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