Alphabet Associations - III

[AuntDaisy]

Could you be a bit more pellucid, Aunty?

Sorry, my favourite bit of the Messiah. All join in...
"All we like sheep have gone astray"

[french frank]

Sorry, my favourite bit of the Messiah. All join in...
"All we like sheep have gone astray"

Oh, dear. My bad again Unintentional, I assure you. As compensation I'll offer another clue: the piece in question is not as widely known as an aria, but in various forms of instrumental arrangements. There! ('There!' isn't a clue btw).

PS The words of Messiah were written by Charles Jennens who was English

[hmvman]

Sheep May Safely Graze - Bach setting Franck?

[LMcD]

Oh, dear. My bad again Unintentional, I assure you. As compensation I'll offer another clue: the piece in question is not as widely known as an aria, but in various forms of instrumental arrangements. There! ('There!' isn't a clue btw).

I'm trying really hard to follow what's going on, but as I have only a 'Desmond' from a fairly average redbrick university perhaps I'm being a bit over-ambitious.
(Just out of interest - is there a limit to the number of additional clues that can be requested or offered?)

[french frank]

Sheep May Safely Graze - Bach setting Franck?

Correct, hmvman.

We have Rejoice in the Lamb, and Sheep may safely graze, so need a song by an Austrian composer with words by a German poet.

[cloughie]

Correct, hmvman.

We have Rejoice in the Lamb, and Sheep may safely graze, so need a song by an Austrian composer with words by a German poet.

Schubert Shepherd on the Rock

composer Richard Shepherd

[AuntDaisy]

Correct, hmvman.
We have Rejoice in the Lamb, and Sheep may safely graze, so need a song by an Austrian composer with words by a German poet.

Schubert's "Schäfers Klagelied" with Goethe?

(I'll come clean, my Messiah reference was supposed to be a joke )

[LMcD]

Schubert's "Schäfers Klagelied" with Goethe?

(I'll come clean my Messiah reference was supposed to be a joke )

Well, I've really no idea who, if anybody, has come up with the correct answer, but it's quite enjoyable watching people tie themselves in knots!

[AuntDaisy]

Well, I've really no idea who, if anybody, has come up with the correct answer, but it's quite enjoyable watching people tie themselves in knots!

In the land of the blind, the one eyed sheep is king.

[cloughie]

Well, I've really no idea who, if anybody, has come up with the correct answer, but it's quite enjoyable watching people tie themselves in knots!

Sheepshank no doubt!

[Tapiola]

Ewe might think that, cloughie, but I'm not going to ram the point home.

I'll get me suede...

[french frank]

Schubert Shepherd on the Rock

composer Richard Shepherd

I'll come back to you on that one, Cloughie. I expected AD to leap in with the answer which was not Richard Shepherd [recte Shephard, I perceive]. The 'song' (or as some would say 'das Lied' ) is indeed Der Hirt auf dem Felsen by Schubert, the name of the poet being the missing piece there. (I nearly added "It's not Winterreise"!).

So, I'll accept Richard Shephard who, begging his pardon, was unknown to me and since you supplied two pieces, a composition and an S composer, it's T for You. But with all this info, can anyone come up with another S composer to fit the bill?

[hmvman]

I'd been wondering about John Sheppard, which I see from Wikipedia can also be spelt Shepherd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sheppard_(composer)

[french frank]

I'd been wondering about John Sheppard, which I see from Wikipedia can also be spelt Shepherd. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sheppard_(composer)

Funnily enough, I wondered about the self same man, which means in dribs but definitely not drabs we have the dénouement:

The S composer is John Sheppard (or Shepherd) c. 1515 – December 1558

Sheep may safely graze, widely known as an instrumental piece for piano/strings &c., is an aria from Bach's cantata BWV 208, text by Salomon Franck.

Der Hirt auf dem Felsen D965 (The Shepherd on the Rock) was by Schubert, words by Wilhelm Müller.

Rejoice in the Lamb (op 30) by Benjamin Britten had words by Christopher Smart (1722-1771), detained and imprisoned sometimes for "lunacy", sometimes for debt.

It's just like the internet: whatever you want to look up there are always several possibilities (Hence I accepted Robert Shephard).

But if cloughie will take T with us, I'm sure everyone will be pleased.

PS Or hmvman who also got two parts right, albeit in separate goes.

[Tapiola]

Lovely lucid coleslaw french frank. All flavours distinct yet blended.

I await T with Trepidation.