Birthday Madrigals - John Rutter

for SATB with optional double bass and optional piano Rutter's music captures the varied moods of Shakespeare's words, with their rapture, sorrow, humour, and vitality, in a way that makes these classic madrigal texts come alive for contemporary audiences. These pieces may be performed individually or as a five-movement suite. Numbers 1, 4, and 5 are also published for upper voices and keyboard as Three Birthday Madrigals.

It was a lover and his lass; Draw on, sweet night; Come live with me; My true love hath my heart; When daisies pied