Clarke’s Daybreak, for voice and string quartet, originally published in 2012, has just been reissued—freshly engraved, with an updated introduction and a cover-design that captures something of the piece’s overwhelming sensuality—by our friends at Sleepy Puppy Press. Details on our Shop page, and on Sleepy Puppy’s website (here for the print edition, here for the digital).

The text is John Donne’s aubade “Stay O sweet, and do not rise!”—which, in case you’ve forgotten, is not just a morning-song but a morning-after song, in which two lovers are not only still in bed, but wound very tightly in one another’s embrace.

Little else needs to be said, except that you should immediately knock yourself out with the glorious performance by Nicholas Phan and Brooklyn Rider, here or at either of the Sleepy Puppy links above.