Silent Noon
I have come across a breathtakingly beautiful song.
Whilst searching for a recording for songs by the French composer Poulenc that I was asked to accompany, I came across a CD which included both French and English songs. One of the titles that caught my eye was "Silent Noon" which is composed by the English composer V.Wiiliams.
The site I was on gave sample tastes of each song and although it was only the first few seconds I immediately fell in love with it. (I asked my English friend about it and apparently it's quite well known!)
I then went to YouTube and found that there is a video with Ian Bostridge singing the song with the video just showing the lyrics.(I much prefer it to the music video of I.Bostridge actually singing it as you can really concentrate on the words.) The words are actually a poem by D.G.Rosetti and I just melted away by it's beauty.
It's one of those very rare songs where the words and the music match perfectly.I have already asked my friend in England if we could do it together when I come in the Summer. I really hope that some day we will have a chance to perform it!
Here is just the ending of the poem. Could love be more beautiful than this!?
"Deep in the sun-searched growths the dragon-fly
Hangs like a blue thread loosened from the sky,—
So this wing’d hour is dropped to us from above.
Oh! clasp we to our hearts, for deathless dower,
This close-companioned inarticulate hour
When twofold silence was the song of love. "
