Crédits
INTERPRÉTATION
Claire Rutter
Soprano
New London Orchestra
Orchestre
Ronald Corp
Direction d’orchestre
COMPOSITION ET PAROLES
Sir Francis Cowley Burnand
Paroles
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Composition
Paroles
Rita: The tinkling sheepbell knells the parting day,
The flocks collect from meadow, hill, and moor.
The happy goat-herd homeward takes his way,
His wife and children wait him at the door:
To me the bells send up no cheering tone:
Only the night wind sighs alone, alone.
Tinkle the bells upon the mountain steeps,
Fainter and fainter down the narrow ways,
Now in his cot, the shepherd, ere he sleeps,
Joins with his lov’d ones, in their hymn of praise.
To me the bells …
Written by: Sir Arthur Sullivan, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand