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Chi vol veder quantunque pò natura

from Cipriano de Rore: I madrigali a cinque voci by Blue Heron

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Chi vol veder quantunque pò natura
E ’l ciel tra noi, venga a mirar costei,
Ch’è sola un sol, non pur a gli occhi miei,
Ma ’l mondo cieco, che vertù non cura.

Et venga tosto, perché morte fura
Prima i migliori, et lascia star i rei.
Questa aspettata al regno de gli dei,
Cosa bella mortal passa et non dura.

Vedrà, s’arriva a tempo, ogni virtute,
Ogni bellezza, ogni real costume
Giunti in un corpo con mirabil tempre.

Allhor dirà che mie rime son mute,
L’ingegno offeso dal soverchio lume.
Ma se più tarda, havrà da pianger sempre.

Petrarch, Canzoniere 248

Whoever wishes to see all that Nature
and Heaven can do among us, let him come gaze on her,
for she alone is a sun, and not merely for my eyes
but for the blind world, which does not care for virtue;

and let him come soon, for death steals
the best first, and leaves behind the wicked.
Awaited in the kingdom of the gods,
this beautiful mortal thing passes and does not endure.

He will see, if he arrives in time, every virtue,
every beauty, every regal manner
joined in one body, marvelously tempered.

Then he will say that my rhymes are mute,
my wit overcome by excessive light.
But if he waits too long he shall have to weep forever.

Translation by Scott Metcalfe. Cf. translations by Robert Durling and Mark Musa

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from Cipriano de Rore: I madrigali a cinque voci, released October 4, 2019

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Winner of the 2018 Gramophone Classical Music Award for Early Music (the first non-European group to win the award), Blue Heron (Scott Metcalfe, dir.) has been acclaimed by The Boston Globe as “one of the Boston music community’s indispensables” and hailed by Alex Ross in The New Yorker for the “expressive intensity” of its interpretations. ... more

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