Listen to more music by Jack Gibbons "The Bourne" "Music Box" "Sarabande" Watch Jack Gibbons performing Scarlatti   Jack Gibbons' Writings... "Happy at the piano" Gershwin feature "The Myths of Alkan" BBC talk "Fighting Back" Interview with Gibbons and more...	"ECHO" Music by JACK GIBBONS Words by CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Sung by Ann Mackay (soprano) Accompanied by Jack Gibbons (piano) Recorded by Tony Faulkner at Henry Wood Hall, London November 17th 2003                                                                                                                                            Ann Mackay Music copyright Jack Gibbons 2001                                                          Performance copyright Jack Gibbons 2003                                                          Use right click for audio controls/settings                                         Click on the above controls (or right click if no controls are visible)  to download/play the 'wma' audio file. The duration of this audio file is is 2'53. Download time will be anything from less than a minute to 10 minutes, depending on your connection speed. Jack Gibbons' song Echo is a setting of the poem of Christina Rossetti, the 19th century poet and sister of Pre-Raphaelite painter Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Jack Gibbons' song setting was completed in the early summer of 2001.
	Echo words by Christina Rossetti Come to me in the silence of night; Come in the speaking silence of a dream; Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright As sunlight on a stream; Come back in tears, O memory, hope, love of finished years. Oh dream how sweet, too sweet, too bitter-sweet, Whose awakening should have been in Paradise, Where souls brim-full of love abide and meet; Where thirsting longing eyes Watch the slow door That opening, letting in, lets out no more. Yet come to me in dreams, that I may live My very life again though cold in death: Come back to me in dreams, that I may give Pulse for pulse, breath for breath:                                                                     Christina Rossetti Speak low, lean low, As long ago, my love, how long ago.
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