VOCES8 Foundation Choir & Orchestra: Sleep by Eric Whitacre (orch. Jim Clements)
VOCES8 is joined by members of the VOCES8 Foundation Choir & Orchestra, conducted by Artistic Director Barnaby Smith for a performance of Eric Whitacre’s ’Sleep’, in a new orchestration by Jim Clements.
The track is available on the VOCES8 Foundation’s new album ’To Sing of Love’, which is released on 7th June 2024.
’Sleep’ is the first single and is available here:
TEXT
The evening hangs beneath the moon,
A silver thread on darkened dune.
With closing eyes and resting head
I know that sleep is coming soon.
Upon my pillow, safe in bed,
A thousand pictures fill my head.
I cannot sleep, my mind’s a-flight;
And yet my limbs seem made of lead.
If there are noises in the night,
A frightening shadow, flickering light,
Then I surrender unto sleep,
Where clouds of dream give second sight,
What dreams may come, both dark and deep,
Of flying wings and soaring leap
As I surrender unto sleep,
As I surrender unto sleep.
Charles Anthony Silvestri,
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