Easter

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


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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

Your Song
music by Elton John, lyrics by Bernie Taupin

David John Pike, baritone
Matthew Larkin, piano

Elton John's Your Song, a spontaneous and improvised encore after an English song recital with works by Ralph Vaughan Williams and Butterworth at the Music & Beyond festival, Ottawa, Canada, 9 July 2014.  















  

David John Pike, baritone www.davidjohnpike@gmail.com
Matthew Larkin, piano

Your Song

Sleep, music by Ivor Gurney, poetry by John Fletcher at Music and Beyond Festival, Ottawa, Canada, July 2015

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

We took Independence Day off, so we’ve got a loaded show for you this week.  Oliver Camacho goes ‘Inside the Huddle’ with baritone David John Pike, who talks about coaching the role of Scarpia from Puccini’s “Tosca” with Sherill Milnes, and also reflects on singing George Butterworth’s song cycle "A Shropshire Lad" on the hundredth anniversary of the Battle of the Somme...

But first, it’s our ‘Chalk Talk’ segment.  Ticket sales are up at Los Angeles Opera and the Wiener Staatsoper, but down at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City.  What factors are pushing these numbers up (or down) and who’s responsible?  Tobias Wright has some theories to share...

Plus, Giovanna Jacques checks in from the Bellini Museum in Sicily, we’ve got all your opera headlines in ‘The Two Minute Drill’, and Oliver plays ‘Monday Evening Quarterback’ after seeing Renée Fleming in concert...

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If you could read my mind
music and lyrics by Gordon Lightfoot

David John Pike, baritone
Matthew Larkin, piano

If you could read my mind

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



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