David Munrow - Renaissance Suite - Track 5

Lament
David Munrow - Renaissance Suite - Track 5 (1974)
verse attributed to Anne Boleyn (c. 1501 - 1536)
O death, o death rock me asleep
Bring me to quiet rest
Let pass my weary guiltless ghost
Out of my woeful breast
O death, o death rock me asleep
Bring me to quiet rest
Let pass my weary guiltless ghost
Out of my woeful breast
Toll on, thou passing bell
Ring out my doleful knell
Let the sound my death tell
Let the sound my death tell
For I must die
There is no remedy
O now I die

[@aminorchacha]

Sadly, death came all too soon for David Munrow who took his own life in 1976. May he rest in peace. This recording and album are fitting tributes to his genius.

[@infearantrem]

I remember buying this at the time because I used to listen to Munrow et al on Radio 3's 'Pied Piper.' This track was perfect 'adolescent misery' fare.....it drove my Parents bonkers (oddly our Radiogram was at the top of the stairs)...memories eh!

[@babsclark8572]

I still have this record but cannot play it

[@babsclark8572]

who is the singer please?

[@iansadler4309]

Reckon it's the incomparable James Bowman - Munrow's first choice of countertenor.