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Saeculum Aureum: Heraclitus - Stanford

Saeculum Aureum sings 'Heraclitus', by Charles Villiers Stanford. Charles Villiers Stanford, though too old to fight, was not unaffected by the First World War. He was severely frightened by air-raids conducted by German Zeppelins and was forced to leave his home in London to avoid them. Of greater concern to him was the suffering of many of his former pupils on the battlefields of Flanders, including George Butterworth. Stanford’s setting of Heraclitus (a translation by William Corey of an elegy by Callimachus of Alexandria), was published in 1910, a year before Butterworth’s 'Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad', and shows much of the latter’s contemplation of loss – an unhappy prelude to unhappier times to come. They told me, Heraclitus, they told me you were dead, They brought me bitter news to hear and bitter tears to shed. I wept as I remembered how often you and I Had tired the sun with talking and sent him down the sky. And now that thou at lying, my dear old Carian guest, A handful of grey ashes, long, long ago at rest, Still are thy pleasant voices, thy nightingales, awake; For Death, he taketh all away, but them he cannot take. ***** Singers: Caitlin Webb (soprano), Jessica Smith (soprano), Glyn Lloyd-Jones (counter-tenor), Charles Antrobus (tenor), Ben Ryan (bass). Recorded at St Bartholomew's Church, Grahamstown on 10 November 2018, by Paddy Donnelly.