• Graham Ross
  • Come to me in the silence of the night (2006)

  • Novello & Co Ltd (World)
  • SSAATTBB
  • 3 min
  • Christina Rossetti

Programme Note

Come to me in the silence of the night was the winner of the National Youth Choir of Great Britain’s 2006 Composition Prize. The first performance was conducted by Michael Brewer at the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester on Easter Saturday, 15 April 2006, and later broadcast on BBC Radio 3.


Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream;
Come with soft rounded cheeks and eyes as bright
As sunlight on a stream;
Come back in tears,
O memory, hope, love of finished years.

Christina Rossetti (1830–94)