HolmesBaritone

Brahms Liebeslieder thirteenth and fourteenth movements: Vögelein durchrauscht die Luft & Sieh, wie ist die Welle klar. Lyrics: 13. Vögelein durchrauscht die Luft sucht nach einem Aste, und das Herz, das Herz begehrts, wo es selig raste. 14. Sieh', wie ist die Welle klar, blickt der Mond hernieder! Die du meine Liebe bist, liebe du mich wieder! English translation: 13. A little bird rushes through the air looking for a branch; and the heart—it yearns for a heart where it may blissfully rest. 14. See how clear are the waves when the moon gazes down! You who are my love, love me again! Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

The clock of the years from Finzi's song cycle 'Earth and air and rain. Lyrics: And the Spirit said, "I can make the clock of the years go backward, But am loth to stop it where you will." And I cried, "Agreed To that. Proceed: It's better than dead!" He answered, "Peace;" And called her up - as last before me; Then younger, younger she grew, to the year I first had known Her woman-grown, And I cried, "Cease! - "Thus far is good - It is enough - let her stay thus always!" But alas for me - He shook his head: No stop was there; And she waned child-fair, And to babyhood. Still less in mien To my great sorrow became she slowly, And smalled till she was nought at all In his checkless griff; And it was as if She had never been. "Better", I plained, "She were dead as before! The memory of her Had lived in me; but it cannot now!" And coldly his voice: "It was your choice To mar the ordained." Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

To Lizbie Browne form Finzi's song cycle 'Earth and Air and Rain' Lyrics: Dear Lizbie Browne Where are you now? In sun, in rain? - Or is your brow Past joy, past pain Dear Lizbie Browne? Sweet Lizbie Browne How you could smile How you could sing! - How archly wile In glance-giving Sweet Lizbie Browne! And, Lizbie Browne Who else had hair Bay-red as yours Or flesh so fair Bred out of doors Sweet Lizbie Browne? When, Lizbie Browne You had just begun To be endeared By stealth to one You disappeared My Lizbie Browne! Ay, Lizbie Browne So swift your life And mine so slow You were a wife Ere I could show Love, Lizbie Browne Still, Lizbie Browne You won, they said The best of men When you were wed Where went you then O Lizbie Browne? Dear Lizbie Browne I should have thought "Girls ripen fast," And coaxed and caught You ere you passed Dear Lizbie Browne! But, Lizbie Browne I let you slip; Shaped not a sign; Touched never your lip With lip of mine Lost Lizbie Browne! So, Lizbie Browne When on a day Men speak of me As not, you'll say "And who was he?" - Yes, Lizbie Browne Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

One man sings Handel's Messiah part 40: Why so the nations so furiously rage together? Lyrics: Why do the nations so furiously rage together, and why do the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against His anointed. (Psalm 2: 1-2) Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

Check it out as this one-man quartet beautifully covers Handel's Messiah Part 39. Enjoy!

Rollicum-Rorum from Finzi's song cycle 'Earth and air and rain'. Lyrics: When Lawyers strive to heal a breach And Parsons practise what they preach: Then little Boney he'll pounce down, And march his men on London town! Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lorum, Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lay! When Justices hold equal scales, And Rogues are only found in jails; Then little Boney he'll pounce down, And march his men on London town! Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lorum, Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lay! When Rich Men find their wealth a curse, And fill therewith the Poor Man's purse; Then little Boney he'll pounce down, And march his men on London town! Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lorum, Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lay! When Husbands with their Wives agree, And Maids won't wed from modesty; Then little Boney he'll pounce down, And march his men on London town! Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lorum, Rollicum-rorum, tol-lol-lay! Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

Brahms Liebeslieder twelfth movement: Schlosser auf, und mache Schlösser. Lyrics: Schlosser auf, und mache Schlösser ohne Zahl, denn die bösen Mäuler will ich schliessen allzumal! English translation: Locksmith, come and make locks, innumerable locks, because I want to close their evil mouths once and for all! Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

So I have fared from Finzi's song cycle 'Earth and air and rain'. Lyrics: Simple was I and was young; Kept no gallant tryst, I; Even from good words held my tongue, Quoniam Tu fecisti! Through my youth I stirred me not, High adventure missed I, Left the shining shrines unsought; Yet - me deduxisti! At my start by Helicon Love-lore little wist I, Worldly less; but footed on; Why? Me suscepisti! When I failed at fervid rhymes, "Shall", I said, "persist I?" "Dies" (I would add at times) "Meos posuisti!" So I have fared through many suns; Sadly little grist I Bring my mill, or any one's, Domine, Tu scisti! And at dead of night I call; "Though to prophets list I, Which hath understood at all? Yea: Quem elegisti?" Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

The Phantom from Finzi's song cycle 'Earth and air and rain' Lyrics: Queer are the ways of a man I know: He comes and stands In a careworn craze, And looks at the sands And the seaward haze With moveless hands And face and gaze, Then turns to go... And what does he see when he gazes so? They say he sees as an instant thing More clear than to-day, A sweet soft scene That once was in play By that briny green; Yes, notes alway Warm, real, and keen, What his back years bring - A phantom of his own figuring. Of this vision of his they might say more: Not only there Does he see this sight, But everywhere In his brain - day, night, As if on the air It were drawn rose bright - Yea, far from that shore Does he carry this vision of heretofore: A ghost-girl-rider. And though, toil-tried, He withers daily, Time touches her not, But she still rides gaily In his rapt thought On that shagged and shaly Atlantic spot, And as when first eyed Draws rein and sings to the swing of the tide. Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

One man sings Handel's Messiah part 38: How beautiful are the feet. Lyrics: How beautiful are the feet of them that preach the gospel of peace, and bring glad tidings of good things. (Isaiah 52: 7; Romans 10: 15) Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

One man sings Handel's Messiah part 37: The Lord gave the word. Lyrics: The Lord gave the word; great was the company of the preachers. (Psalm 68: 11) Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

Brahms Liebeslieder eleventh movement: Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen. Lyrics: Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen mit den Leuten; alles wissen sie so giftig auszudeuten. Bin ich heiter, hegen soll ich lose Triebe, bin ich still, so heissts ich wäre irr aus Liebe. Nein, es ist nicht auszukommen mit den Leuten; alles wissen sie so giftig auszudeuten. English translation: No, it is impossible to get along with such people; they know how to interpret everything so maliciously! If I’m merry, I’m said to have frivolous desires; if I’m silent, then it means I’m mad with love. No, it is impossible to get along with such people; they know how to interpret everything so maliciously! Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

Waiting Both from Finzi's song cycle 'Earth and air and rain'. Lyrics: A star looks down at me, And says: "Here I and you Stand, each in our degree: What do you mean to do, - Mean to do?" I say: "For all I know, Wait, and let Time go by, Till my change come." - "Just so," The star says: "So mean I: - So mean I." Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

When I set out for Lyonnesse from Finzi's song cycle 'Earth and air and rain' Lyrics: When I set out for Lyonnesse, A hundred miles away, The rime was on the spray, And starlight lit my lonesomeness When I set out for Lyonnesse A hundred miles away. What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there No prophet durst declare, Nor did the wisest wizard guess What would bechance at Lyonnesse While I should sojourn there. When I came back from Lyonnesse With magic in my eyes, None managed to surmise What meant my godlike gloriousness, When I came back from Lyonnesse With magic in my eyes! Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

Deh, vieni alla finestra from Don Giovanni by Mozart. Lyrics: Deh, vieni alla finestra, o mio tesoro, Deh, vieni a consolar il pianto mio. Se neghi a me di dar qualche ristoro, Davanti agli occhi tuoi morir vogl'io! Tu ch'hai la bocca dolce più del miele, Tu che il zucchero porti in mezzo al core! Non esser, gioia mia, con me crudele! Lasciati almen veder, mio bell'amore! English translation: Come to the window, my treasure, come to console my lament. If you deny me some relief, I want to die before your eyes! You whose mouth is sweeter than honey, you whose heart cradles sweet desires! Do not, my beloved, be cruel to me! At least let me see you, my loved one! Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

Summer Schemes from Finzi's song cycle 'Earth and air and rain'. Lyrics: When friendly summer calls again Calls again Her little fifers to these hills We'll go - we two - to that arched fane Of leafage where they prime their bills Before they start to flood the plain With quavers,, minims, shakes, and trills '- We'll go', I sing; but who shall say What may not chance before that day! And we shall see the waters spring Waters spring From chinks the scrubby copses crown; And we shall trace their oncreeping To where the cascade tumbles down And sends the bobbing growths aswing And ferns not quite but almost drown '- We shall', I say; but who may sing Of what another moon will bring! Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

A one-man opera singer covers Handel's 'Messiah' Part 34 and 35. So awesome!

One man sings Handel's Messiah part 36: Thou art gone up on high. Lyrics: Thou art gone up on high; Thou hast led captivity captive, and received gifts for men; yea, even from Thine enemies, that the Lord God might dwell among them. (Psalm 68: 18) Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

Brahms Liebeslieder tenth movement: O wie sanft die Quelle. Lyrics: O wie sanft die Quelle sich durch die Wiese windet O wie schön wenn Liebe sich zu der Liebe findet! English translation: Oh how gently the stream winds through the meadow! Oh how beautiful when one love finds itself another! Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

This opera singer only needs himself to sing the classic 'Messiah' by Handel in this amazing music video. Enjoy!

I said to love from Finzi's song cycle 'I said to love'. Lyrics: I said to Love, "It is not now as in old days When men adored thee and thy ways All else above; Named thee the Boy, the Bright, the One Who spread a heaven beneath the sun," I said to Love. I said to him, "We now know more of thee than then; We were but weak in judgment when, With hearts abrim, We clamoured thee that thou would'st please Inflict on us thine agonies," I said to him. I said to Love, "Thou art not young, thou art not fair, No elfin darts, no cherub air, Nor swan, nor dove Are thine; but features pitiless, And iron daggers of distress," I said to Love. "Depart then, Love! Man's race shall perish, threatenest thou, Without thy kindling coupling-vow? The age to come the man of now Know nothing of? We fear not such a threat from thee; We are too old in apathy! Mankind shall cease.. - So let it be," I said to Love. Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

For life I had never cared greatly from Finzi's song cycle 'I said to love'. Lyrics: For Life I have never cared greatly, As worth a man's while; Per-adventures unsought, Per-adventures that finished in nought, Had kept me from youth and through manhood till lately Unwon by its style. In earliest years -- why I know not -- I viewed it askance; Conditions of doubt, Conditions that leaked slowly out, May haply have bent me to stand and to show not Much zest for its dance. With symphonies soft and sweet colour It courted me then, Till evasions seemed wrong, Till evasions gave in to its song, And I warmed, until living aloofly loomed duller Than life among men. Anew I found nought to set eyes on, When, lifting its hand, It uncloaked a star, Uncloaked it from fog-damps afar, And showed its beams burning from pole to horizon As bright as a brand. And so, the rough highway forgetting, I pace hill and dale Regarding the sky, Regarding the vision on high, And thus re-illumed have no humour for letting My pilgrimage fail. Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

In five-score summers from Finzi's song cycle 'I said to love'. Lyrics: In five-score summers! All new eyes, New minds, new modes, new fools, new wise; New woes to weep, new joys to prize; With nothing left of me and you In that live century's vivid view Beyond a pinch of dust or two; A century which, if not sublime, Will show, I doubt not, at its prime, A scope above this blinkered time. - Yet what to me how far above? For I would only ask thereof That thy worm should be my worm, Love! Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

Two lips from Finzi's song cycle 'I said to love'. Lyrics: I kissed them in fancy as I came Away in the morning glow: I kissed them through the glass of her picture-frame: She did not know. I kissed them in love, in troth, in laughter, When she knew all; long so! That I should kiss them in a shroud thereafter She did not know. Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/

At middle-field gate in February from Finzi's song cycle 'I said to love'. Lyrics: The bars are thick with drops that show As they gather themselves from the fog Like silver buttons ranged in a row, And as evenly spaced as if measured, although They fall at the feeblest jog. They load the leafless hedge hard by, And the blades of last year's grass, While the fallow ploughland turned up nigh In raw rolls, clammy and clogging lie - Too clogging for feet to pass. How dry it was on a far-back day When straws hung the hedge and around, When amid the sheaves in amorous play In curtained bonnets and light array Bloomed a bevy now underground! Check out my Website - https://aaronholmesopera.com/