LSO, Sir John Barbirolli - Sea Pictures, Op. 37 - The Swimmer-Jacqueline Du Pre

[ti:Sea Pictures, Op. 37 - No. 5, The Swimmer] [ar:John Barbirolli/Janet Baker] [al:Elgar: Cello Concerto, Op. 85 & Sea Pictures, Op. 37] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.18]Sea Pictures, Op. 37 - No. 5, The Swimmer - John Barbirolli/Janet Baker [00:01.15]Composed by：Sir Edward Elgar [00:02.16] [00:23.96]With short sharp violent lights made vivid [00:28.92] [00:29.69]To southward far as the sight can roam [00:34.86] [00:35.66]Only the swirl of the surges livid [00:40.15]The seas that climb and the surfs that comb [00:44.67]Only the crag and the cliff to nor'ward [00:49.19]The rocks receding and reefs flung forward [00:53.26] [00:53.80]Waifs wreck'd seaward and wasted shoreward [00:59.54]On shallows sheeted with flaming foam [01:07.65] [01:15.84]A grim gray coast and the seaboard ghastly [01:20.52]And shores trod seldom by feet of men [01:25.37] [01:26.14]Where the batter'd hull and the broken mast lie [01:30.40]They have lain embedded these long years ten [01:39.61] [01:40.58]Love [01:43.37]Love when we wandered here together [01:51.08] [01:51.70]Hand in hand [01:53.11] [01:53.77]Hand in hand through the sparkling weather [02:00.63] [02:01.36]From the heights and hollows of fern and heather [02:13.54] [02:17.75]God surely loved us a little then [02:30.24] [02:33.49]The skies were fairer the shores were firmer [02:41.44]The blue sea over the bright sand roll'd [02:48.26] [02:49.29]Babble and prattle and ripple and murmur [02:57.82] [02:58.55]Sheen of silver and glamour of gold [03:08.27] [03:09.34]Sheen of silver and glamour of gold [03:22.23] [03:31.90]So girt with tempest and wing'd with thunder [03:37.86] [03:38.44]And clad with lightning and shod with sleet [03:43.45] [03:44.23]And strong winds treading the swift waves under [03:49.11]The flying rollers with frothy feet [03:53.32] [03:54.17]One gleam like a bloodshot sword-blade swims on [03:58.30]The sky-line staining the green gulf crimson [04:03.21]A death stroke fiercely dealt by a dim sun [04:07.92] [04:08.44]That strikes through his stormy winding-sheet [04:18.32] [04:20.79]O brave white horses you gather and gallop [04:25.71]The storm sprite loosens the gusty reins [04:30.17]O brave white horses you gather and gallop [04:35.02]The storm sprite loosens the gusty reins [04:40.71] [04:41.87]Now the stoutest ship were the frailest shallop [04:46.55]In your hollow backs on your high arch'd manes [04:51.22]I would ride as never man has ridden [04:57.06]In your sleepy swirling surges hidden [05:04.11] [05:07.33]I would ride as never man has ridden [05:14.03] [05:15.05]To gulfs foreshadow'd thro' strifes forbidden [05:19.96] [05:20.53]Where no light wearies and no love wanes [05:27.17] [05:28.82]No love where no love no love wanes