Blackmwore by the Stour
a Dorset song by Ralph Vaughan Williams (music), William Barnes (poetry)

David John Pike, baritone
Isabelle Trüb, piano
www.davidjohnpike.com

Available on Signum Classics, SIGCD314

Blackmwore by the Stour, Ralph Vaughan Williams, David John Pike, baritone

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad
George Butterworth
for baritone and piano
David John Pike, baritone
Matthew Larkin, piano
recorded live, July 2014
Music & Beyond Festival, Ottawa, Canada


Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad - When I was one and twenty

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad -  Look not in my eyes

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad - Loveliest of trees

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad - Think no more lad

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad - The lads In their hundreds

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad - Is my team ploughing

Five Mystical Songs
Ralph Vaughan Williams
poetry by George Herbert

David John Pike, baritone
Matthew Larkin, piano, conductor
Larkin Singers

recorded live, 21 April 2012, Toronto

Five Mystical Songs: 1. Easter, Ralph Vaughan Williams

Easter Wings
Matthew Larkin
poetry by George Herbert

David John Pike, baritone
Matthew Larkin, piano

Lord, who createdst man in wealth and store,
      Though foolishly he lost the same,
            Decaying more and more,
                  Till he became
                        Most poore:
                        With thee
                  O let me rise
            As larks, harmoniously,
      And sing this day thy victories:
Then shall the fall further the flight in me.

My tender age in sorrow did beginne
      And still with sicknesses and shame.
            Thou didst so punish sinne,
                  That I became
                        Most thinne.
                        With thee
                  Let me combine,
            And feel thy victorie:
         For, if I imp my wing on thine,
Affliction shall advance the flight in me.


Easter Wings, music Matthew Larkin, poetry George Herbert

The Unknown Soldier / le Soldat inconnu
Cantata in 8 movements by Andrew Ager 
Live recording of world première, St. James Cathedral, Toronto, May 2014
Vicki St Pierre, conductor
David John Pike, baritone
Choir of St. James Cathedral, Chamber Orchestra

The Unknown Soldier / le Soldat inconnu

With rue my heart is laden
from Bredon Hill and other songs
music by George Butterworth
poetry by A.E. Housman

recorded live in concert at Music and Beyond Festival, Ottawa, Canada, July 2015


Bredon Hill and other songs - With rue my heart Is laden

Bredon Hill and other songs

music by George Butterworth
poetry by A.E. Housman, from A Shropshire Lad

David John Pike, baritone
Matthew Larkin, piano

recorded at Music & Beyond Festival, Ottawa, Canada, July 2015

Bredon Hill and other songs - On the idle hill of summer

Bredon Hill and other songs - When the lad for longing sighs

Bredon Hill and other songs - Oh fair enough are sky and plain

Bredon Hill and other songs - Bredon Hill

The Ballad of Annabel Lee

music by Kerry Turner
poetry by Edar Allan Poe

David John Pike, baritone
Kerry Turner, Kristina Mascher-Turner, horns
Lauretta Bloomer, piano

recorded live in Luxembourg, April 2016

image: "Sketch for Annabel Lee", James McNeill Whistler 

It was many and many a year ago,
   In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
   By the name of Annabel Lee;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
   Than to love and be loved by me.
I was a child and she was a child,
   In this kingdom by the sea:
But we loved with a love that was more than love--
   I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
   Coveted her and me.

And this was the reason that, long ago,
   In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
   My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
   And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
   In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
   Went envying her and me--
Yes!--that was the reason (as all men know,
   In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
   Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
   Of those who were older than we--
   Of many far wiser than we--
And neither the angels in heaven above,
   Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee:

For the moon never beams, without bringing me dreams
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes
   Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling--my darling--my life and my bride,
   In her sepulchre there by the sea,
   In her tomb by the sounding sea.

The Ballad of Annabel Lee

Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n
Kindertotenlieder
Music by Gustav Mahler, Poetry by Friedrich Rückert

David John Pike, baritone (www.davidjohnpike.com)
David Briggs, organ (www.david-briggs.org)

recorded live, July 2016, Igreja da Lapa, Oporto, Portugal

Nun will die Sonn' so hell aufgeh'n, Kindertotenlieder, Gustav Mahler

If you could read my mind

David John Pike, baritone
Matthew Larkin, piano

music by Gordon Lightfoot

recorded February 2016, Southminster Church, Ottawa, Canada
copyright 2016 David John Pike

If you could read my mind

Candle in the Wind
music by Elton John, text by Bernie Taupin

David John Pike, baritone
Matthew Larkin, piano

recorded February 2017, Ottawa, Canada
Tom Barnes, audio

Candle in the Wind

Brahms Requiem

"Herr, lehre doch mich"
"Siehe, ich sage euch ein Geheimnis"

David John Pike, baritone

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Canadian/British baritone based in Luxembourg
www.davidjohnpike.com



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