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Far potess​’​io vendetta di colei

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

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Far potess’io vendetta di colei
Che guardando et parlando mi distrugge,
Et per più doglia poi s’asconde et fugge,
Celando gli occhi a me sì dolci et rei.

Così gli afflitti et stanchi pensier mei
A poco a poco consumando sugge,
E ’n sul cor quasi fero leon rugge
La notte all’ hor quand’io posar dovrei.

L’alma, cui morte del suo albergo caccia,
Da me si parte, et di tal nodo sciolta
Vassene pur a lei che la minaccia.

Meravigliomi ben s’alcuna volta,
Mentre le parla, et piange, et poi l’abbraccia,
Non rompe ’l sonno suo, s’ella l’ascolta.

Petrarch, Canzoniere 256

Could I but take vengeance on her
who gazing and speaking destroys me
and then, for more pain, absconds and flees,
hiding from me her eyes so sweet and cruel!

Thus she saps my afflicted and tired thoughts,
consuming them little by little,
and above my heart like a fierce lion roars
at night, when I should be at rest.

My soul, which Death chases from its dwelling,
leaves me, and loosed from that knot
goes off straight to her who menaces it.

I marvel indeed if at some time,
while it speaks to her, and weeps, and then embraces her,
it does not break her sleep, if she is listening.

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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