{"id":906,"date":"2018-12-17T08:12:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-16T21:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/catesings.org\/?p=906"},"modified":"2018-12-17T08:12:23","modified_gmt":"2018-12-16T21:12:23","slug":"advent-calendar-day-17-lullay-myn-lyking-lawson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/catesings.catespeaks.net\/index.php\/2018\/12\/17\/advent-calendar-day-17-lullay-myn-lyking-lawson\/","title":{"rendered":"Advent Calendar Day 17: Lullay myn lyking – Lawson"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lullay myn lyking is a slightly more traditional form of the text from yesterday’s piece, but with a far more modern arrangement.\u00a0 This particular text dates from a 15th-century manuscript (from which the lyrics to Adam Lay Y Bounden<\/a> and I sing of a Maiden<\/a> also derive), but there is no known tune for it.\u00a0 Yesterday’s setting was a traditional Basque melody, but today’s is composed by Philip Lawson, of the King’s Singers.\u00a0 I should probably give you the King’s Singers recording<\/a>, but you are going to be getting them later this week for another piece, and while they are really peerless I just prefer the sound of a female voice for the ‘lullay’ solo after verse three. A boy-soprano sound, no matter how beautifully produced, doesn’t have the same richness to it, I think.<\/p>\n

So instead, you are getting a recording by TENET vocal artists, which is perhaps not so technically perfect, but is nonetheless very beautiful.\u00a0 I enjoy the interactions between the singers in this recording, too, and I do love the trio of female voices for the ‘mickle melody’ verse.<\/p>\n