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Leora Joy Perrie (Regina, Sask.)
Shall I Compare Thee?, 2003 
Text / Texte : William Shakespeare
For unaccompanied mixed choir. 

The composer has set this well-known sonnet with a sonic warmth and haze. The supple melodic lines express the text with a straight-forward simplicity. The middle section utilises a chant style for the men’s voices that harkens back to ancient musical compositions. The clusters of sustained notes in the women’s voices create a shimmering texture.

Pour chœur mixte non accompagné.

La compositrice enveloppe le sonnet bien connu d’une brume phonique chaleureuse. Les lignes mélodiques dévoilent la simplicité et la sincérité du texte. Le cœur de la pièce repose sur un chant pour voix d’hommes, qui rappelle les compositions de l’antiquité. Les femmes, quant à elles, chantent un regroupement scintillant des notes soutenues.

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Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
and summer’s lease hath all too short a date;
sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
and often is his gold complexion dimmed,
and ev’ry fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature’s changing course untrimm’d;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ows’t,
Nor shall death brag thou wander’st in his shade,
when in eternal lines to time thou grow’st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see
so long lives this and this gives life to thee.

Comment te comparer aux beaux jours de l’Été?
Ta grâce est plus aimable et ton humeur plus douce:
Son vent rude abolit les bourgeons veloutés
Et son bail est bien court: déjà l’Hiver le pousse.
Parfois l’œil du soleil nous brûle son ardeur,
Souvent l’or de son teint se ternit et s’efface,
Suivant le cours changeant d’un hasard destructeur
Toute fleur de beauté perd sa fleur et sa grâce.
Mais toi, point ne verras se flétrir ton printemps,
Ni se faner jamais tes beautés immortelles,
Ni la Mort se vanter de ton fantôme errant:
Tu grandis à toujours en rimes éternelles.
Tant que vivra le monde - et l’amour et l’envie -
Vivront ces vers, et ces vers-là donnent la vie!

– Traduit en français par Charles-Marie Garnier

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from Seasons of Life and Landscape, released October 25, 2019
Elizabeth Mitchell, soprano
Michael James, tenor / ténor
Conducted by / Dirigé par Julia Davids

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The Canadian Chamber Choir is a 24-voice professional choral ensemble made up of singers from Newfoundland to British Columbia. Since 1999, we have been ardent champions of Canadian choral music, and almost exclusively perform repertoire by Canadian composers. ... more

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