Drive the cold winter away - John Playford; recorder quartet; soprano; Sopran; Blockflöte; Paetzold скачать в хорошем качестве

Drive the cold winter away - John Playford; recorder quartet; soprano; Sopran; Blockflöte; Paetzold

Hey guys! So here's something new! A few years ago I fell in love with this wonderful piece from John Playford's - the dancing master- describing all the wonderful things you can do during the dark time of the year. It came back to me this year and it felt so right to record it, giving me some perspective and hold during lock down in a very dark, very cold and very wet Germany. The arrangement is written by Holger Schäfer the variations and diminutions are my own. In the beginning it wasn't my plan to also sing in this video because I haven't sung in a very long time and kind of gave up on it after a surgery that messed up my throat muscles and voice but fate decided differently for me so I ended up singing it after all. I hope you can enjoy it! If you're interested in some background information on the piece, here's a link I found quite interesting... https://earlymusicmuse.com/drivetheco... The recording and video is made by my wonderful husband and partner in crime, Paul Raab. (   / @paulraabmusic  ) Please don't forget to subscribe, like, comment and share - you really support people by doing so! I hope it brings you as much joy and smiles as it does to me! Stay safe and healthy! Recorders played by Mona Raab Vocals sung by Mona Raab Lyrics: All hail to the days that merit more praise Than all the rest of the year, And welcome the nights that double delights, As well for the poor as the peer! Good fortune attend each merry man's friend, That doth but the best that he may; Forgetting old wrongs, with carols and songs, To drive the cold winter away. This time of the year is spent in good cheer, And neighbours together do meet, To sit by the fire, with friendly desire, Each other in love do greet; Old grudges forgot, are put in the pot, All sorrows aside they lay, The old and the young doth carol his song, To drive the cold winter away. To mask and to mum kind neighbours will come With wassails of nut-brown ale, To drink and carouse to all in the house, As merry as bucks in the dale; Where cake, bread and cheese is brought for your fees, To make you the longer stay; At the fire to warm will do you no harm, To drive the cold winter away. When Christmastide comes in like a bride, With holly and ivy clad, Twelve days in the year, much mirth and good cheer, In every household is had; The country guise is then to devise Some gambols of Christmas play, Whereat the young men do best that they can, To drive the cold winter away. #recorder #winter #classicalmusic #baroque #baroquemusic #ensemble #singing #classicalsinging #music #musica