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Im Original

What is our life. Orlando Gibbons. A cappella. Secular , Madrigal. Language. English. SAATB.

Übersetzung

Was ist unser Leben. Orlando Gibbons. A-cappella-. Weltliche, Madrigal. Sprache. Englisch. SAATB.

Im Original

This five-part madrigal is Orlando Gibbons's setting of Sir Walter Raleigh's sonnet of the same title, a somber lament written while awaiting execution in the Tower of London. The resulting posthumous collaboration, a concise musical statement of great intensity and concentration, is one of the masterpieces of the English madrigal repertoire.

Übersetzung

This five-part madrigal is Orlando Gibbons's setting of Sir Walter Raleigh's sonnet of the same title, a somber lament written while awaiting execution in the Tower of London. The resulting posthumous collaboration, a concise musical statement of great intensity and concentration, is one of the masterpieces of the English madrigal repertoire.