Andrew Downes: Five Holy Songs, Mvt 1 by Andrew Downes Composer published on 2020-03-19T08:43:16Z A setting of 5 poems by John Donne for counter-tenor, mezzo-soprano, soprano or baritone with 3 violins, 2 violas, 2 'cellos and double bass. The poems are: I Sing the Progress of a Deathless Soul; Spit in my Face Ye Jews; The Virgins; When Senses, Which They Soldiers Are; Hear us, O Hear us, Lord. Multitrack promotional recording by Soprano Paula Downes https://www.andrewdownes.com/Vocal-Solo-and-Song-Cycles.html#SOLOISTSINSTRUMENTAL Words: I sing the progress of a deathless soul, Whom fate, which God made, but doth not control, Placed in most shapes, all times before the law Yoked us; and when and since in this I sing, And the great world in this aged evening From infant morn to manly noon I draw What the gold Chaldee or silver Persian saw. Greek brass or Roman iron is in the one A work to outwit Seth’s pillars, brick and stone, And holy writ excepted, made to yield to none. JOHN DONNE Genre Classical