Gerald Finzi Who is Silvia from Let Us Garlands Bring(1942) ( Words by William Shakespeare)

Павел Napalkovbaritone. Ирина Grigorievapiano. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE (from Two Gentlemen of Verona ) Who is Silvia what is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair and wise is she; The heavens such grace did lend her, That she might admirèd be. Is she kind as she is fair For beauty lives with kindness. Love doth to her eyes repair, To help him of his blindness, And, being helped, inhabits there. Then to Silvia, let us sing, That Silvia is excelling; She excels each mortal thing Upon the dull earth dwelling; To her let us garlands bring. 1594