Cristina Jones (Soprano) & Jessica Cosley (piano, video, and sound) performing “Between Your Sheets” from Jonathan Dove’s (B.1945) 5 Am’rous Sighs with text by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)

The opening piece to this cycle is sensual and delicate, filled with rises and falls, and marked by exquisite tension between the poet and her forbidden desire.

Between your sheets you soundly sleepNor dreams of vigils that we lovers keepWhile all the night, I waking sigh your name,The tender sound does every nerve inflame,Imagination shows me all your charms,The plenteous silken hair, and waxen arms,The well turned neck, and snowy rising breastAnd all the beauties that supinely restBetween your sheets.

Ah Lindamira, could you see my heart,How fond, how true, how free from fraudful art,The warmest glances poorly do explainThe eager wish, the melting throbbing painWhich through my very blood and soul I feel,Which you cannot believe nor I reveal,Which every metaphor must render lessAnd yet (methinks) which I could well expressBetween your sheets.

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To see more of Jessica Cosley's artistic talents, you can find her at:
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www.tuzijess.com

Cristina Jones:
www.theblindsoprano.com

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