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Quanto più m​’​avicino al giorno extremo

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

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Quanto più m’avicino al giorno extremo
Che l’humana miseria suol far breve,
Più veggio il tempo andar veloce et leve,
E ’l mio di lui sperar fallace et scemo.

I’ dico a’ miei pensier, Non molto andremo
D’amor parlando homai, ché ’l duro et greve
Terreno incarco come fresca neve
Si va strugendo, onde noi pace havremo.

Perché con lui cadrà quella speranza,
Che ne fe’ vaneggiar sì lungamente,
E ’l riso, e ’l pianto, et la paura, et l’ira.

Sì vedrem chiaro poi come sovente
Per le cose dubiose altri s’avanza,
Et come spesso indarno si sospira.

Petrarch, Canzoniere 32

The closer I approach that last day
that makes all human misery brief,
the more I see that Time runs swift and light
and that my hope of him is fallacious and empty.

I say to my thoughts, “We won’t go on much further now
speaking of love, for this hard and heavy
earthly burden like fresh snow
is melting, and we shall have peace.

“For with it will fall that hope
that made us rave so long,
and the laughter and the tears and the fear and the rage.

“We shall see clearly then how often
people chase after uncertain things,
and how often they sigh in vain.”

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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