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Track(s) taken from KGS0014

Abide with me – Eventide

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Abide with me
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King's College Choir Cambridge, Sir Stephen Cleobury (conductor), Tom Etheridge (organ)
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Recording details: April 2015
King's College Chapel, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Produced by Benjamin Sheen
Engineered by Benjamin Sheen
Release date: June 2016
Total duration: 4 minutes 37 seconds
 

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The words were by Henry Lyte in the last months of his life: a week before his death on 20 November 1847 he enclosed it in a letter to his daughter as ‘my latest effusion’, and it clearly refers not only to the evening of the day but also to the evening of life. Three more personal verses, omitted in printed versions, can be seen in the Historical Companion to Hymns A&M (1962), p142. The tune Eventide was written for the hymn by William H Monk (1823–89), musical editor of Hymns A&M and composer or arranger of more than sixty of its tunes. It was included in the first edition (1861). All five verses in this arrangement use Monk’s harmonies, but in five different ‘scorings’ devised by Cleobury, ranging from three-part harmony in verse 2 to the rich, full chords at the end of the last verse.

from notes by Nicholas Temperley © 2016

Henry Lyte écrivit ce texte dans les derniers mois de sa vie: une semaine avant sa mort, le 20 novembre 1847, il inséra ce qu’il appelait sa «dernière effusion» dans une lettre à sa fille, faisant clairement référence non seulement au soir de la journée, mais au soir de la vie. Trois strophes plus personnelles, omises des versions imprimées, figurent dans le Historical Companion to Hymns Ancient & Modern (1962, p. 142). William H Monk (1823-1889), éditeur musical de Hymns Ancient & Modern, et compositeur ou arrangeur de plus de soixante des cantiques, écrivit la mélodie Eventide pour ce texte. Elle figurait dans la première édition (1861). Les cinq strophes de cet arrangement utilisent les harmonies de Monk, mais dans cinq configurations différentes imaginées par Cleobury, de l’harmonie à trois voix dans la strophe 2 aux accords riches et pleins à la fin de la dernière strophe.

extrait des notes rédigées par Nicholas Temperley © 2016
Français: Dennis Collins

Henry Lyte schrieb den Text in seinen letzten Lebensmonaten: Eine Woche vor seinem Tod am 20. November 1847 schickte er seiner Tochter einen Brief mit diesem Gedicht als „seinem neuesten Erguss“. Die Worte verweisen eindeutig nicht auf den Abend („eventide“) des Tages, sondern auf den Abend des Lebens. Drei weitere persönliche Strophen, die in gedruckten Ausgaben nicht enthalten sind, stehen im Historical Companion to Hymns Ancient & Modern (1962), S. 142. Eigens zu dem Text verfasste William H. Monk (1823–1889), musikalischer Herausgeber der Hymns Ancient & Modern und Komponist bzw. Arrangeur von über sechzig darin enthaltenen Melodien, die Weise Eventide. Das gesamte Lied wurde bereits in die erste Ausgabe (1861) aufgenommen. Alle fünf Strophen dieses Arrangements folgen Monks Harmonien, allerdings in fünf unterschiedlichen Konfigurationen, die auf Cleobury zurückgehen.

aus dem Begleittext von Nicholas Temperley © 2016
Deutsch: Ursula Wulfekamp

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