My Heart is like a Singing Bird - Hubert Parry

Katie Bray - mezzo-soprano
William Vann - piano
My Heart is like a Singing Bird (English lyrics, tenth set): music by C. Hubert H. Parry, text by Christina Rossetti.
Filmed by Steve Pycroft at 49 Great Ormond Street on 6 August 2015
With thanks to Alec Forshaw

[@MatGreen90]

Such a beautiful and intimate yet energetic performance!

[@clum2774]

My heart is like a singing bird
Whose nest is in a watered shoot;
My heart is like an apple tree
Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit;
My heart is like a rainbow shell
That paddles in a purple sea;
My heart is gladder than all these
Because my love is come to me.
Raise me a dais of purple and gold;
Hang it with vair and purple dyes;
Carve it in doves and pomegranates,
And peacocks with a hundred eyes;
Work it in gold and silver grapes,
In leaves and silver fleur-de-lys;
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love, is come to me.

[@CNU1950]

Lovely performance. And the piano (recently reconditioned) sounds great.

[@edwardmog26]

Stunning

[@SaZid07]

Charming Performance.

[@johnidanesi1766]

Please I need the copy

[@ManojManu-pf4bh]

🤩👌

[@lucy2164]

Anyone know what key this is in?

[@elizabethshoenfelt3223]

It is in F major.

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