Take Me With You (from "The Winter Guest")/ Michael Kamen, Alan Rickman // Alla Kononova

"Take Me With You" is the end-title song for Alan Rickman's film "The Winter Guest", with music composed by Michael Kamen, who wrote the film score, and lyrics by Rickman himself. In the film it is performed by Liz Fraser, whose beautiful ethereal voice gives the song its shape and makes it soar up into the crystal-grey winter sky. Like the film, this song is a beautiful enigmatic creature, elusive and shape-shifting. Every time I sing it I feel like the Yeatsian Aengus who "hooks a berry to a thread" hoping to catch the silver trout. Sometimes he is successful, sometimes not - it is the trout who decides. This song is also a lesson in listening, in being open and honest with yourself and the instrument. Unless you are truly listening to what your harp is saying, unless you are listening into the words, nothing will happen, the trout will not appear. And there is so much intimacy and vulnerability in the lyrics: Your eyes are still closed Are you sleeping? Can I touch you? Would it make you fall? But no impressive accompaniment or vocalizing to hide behind: it would all seem false to the song. It's just you and those words, perfect in their simplicity: Can I touch you? Would it make you fall? #alanrickman #аланрикман #michaelkamen #leverharp #harpcover #lesharpescamac #camacisolde #thewinterguest