PUBLISHED: Jul 19, 2013
DESCRIPTION:
Performer: Netherlands Chamber Choir, with John Alldis
Album: Williams, Howells, Holst, Britten, and Bedford: English Choral Music (1997)
Composer: Ralph Vaughan Williams (1872 - 1958)
Text, by Shakespeare:
Full fathom five thy father lies,
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them, - ding-dong bell.