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Perseguendomi Amor al luogo usato

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

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Perseguendomi Amor al luogo usato,
Ristretto in guisa d’huom ch’aspetta guerra,
Che si provede, e i passi intorno serra,
Di miei antichi pensier’ mi stava armato.

Volsimi, et vidi un’ombra che da lato
Stampava il sole, et riconobbi in terra
Quella che, se ’l giudicio mio non erra,
Era piu degna d’immortale stato.

Io dicea fra mio cor: Perche paventi?
Ma non fu prima dentro il pensier giunto
Che i raggi, ov’io mi struggo, eran presenti.

Come col balenar tona in un punto,
Così fu’ io de’ begli occhi lucenti
Et d’un dolce saluto insieme aggiunto.

Petrarch, Canzoniere 110

Since Love was pursuing me to the usual place,
I, drawn up like a man who expects war,
who provisions himself and closes the passes all around,
was armed with my old thoughts.

I turned and saw a shadow to one side,
cast by the sun, and on the ground I recognized
her who, if my judgment does not err,
was more worthy of immortal state.

I was saying within my heart: “Why are you afraid?”
but the thought had no sooner entered within
than the rays that melt me were present;

as with lightning the thunder comes at the same instant,
so I was overtaken by those beautiful shining eyes
and a sweet greeting all at once.

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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