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Da quei bei lumi ond​’​io sempre sospiro

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

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Da quei bei lumi ond’io sempre sospiro,
Piove dentro al mio cor una tal fiamma,
Ch’io sento consumarmi a dramma a dramma,
Et l’amaro m’è dolce empio martiro.

Luci soavi ov’ha riposto amore
Ogni sua gioia et ogni mio diletto,
Caro de l’alma mia fidato albergo:
Se per soccorso del afflitto core
Al desiato loro almo ricetto
Gli occhi d’humiltà pieni volgo et ergo,
Non sia loro disdetto
Il lume di quel sol che ’l mondo honora,
Cagion ch’amando e ardendo i’ viva et mora.

Giovanni Brevio
Rime et prose volgari (Rome, 1545)

From those fair eyes for which I am always sighing
there rains within my heart such a flame
that I feel myself consumed bit by bit,
and for me the bitterness is sweet, sinful suffering.

Gentle eyes, in which Love has stored
his every joy and my every delight,
trusted dwelling dear to my soul:
if to succor my afflicted heart
I turn and raise my eyes, full of humility,
to their desired divine refuge,
may the light of that sun
that the world honors not be denied them:
the reason that I, loving and burning, live and die.

Translation by Scott Metcalfe. Cf. translation by Angela Lloyd.

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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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