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Reading: Amor, che vedi ogni pensiero aperto

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

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Amor, che vedi ogni pensiero aperto
E i duri passi, onde tu sol mi scorgi,
Nel fondo del mio cor gli occhi tuoi porgi
A te palese, a tutt’altri coverto.

Sai quel che per seguirte ho già sofferto,
Et tu pur via di poggio in poggio sorgi,
Di giorno in giorno, et di me non t’accorgi
Che son sì stanco, e ’l sentier m’è troppo erto.

Ben veggio di lontano il dolce lume
Ove per aspre vie mi sproni et giri,
Ma non ho come tu da volar piume.

Assai contenti lassi i miei desiri,
Pur che ben desiando i’ mi consume,
Né le dispiaccia che per lei sospiri.

Petrarch, Canzoniere 163

Love, you who see plainly my every thought
and the hard steps where you alone guide me,
pierce with your glance the depths of my heart,
which is revealed to you, but hidden from all others.

You know what I have suffered to follow you,
and still you climb from peak to peak,
day after day, and do not notice me,
that I am so weary, and the path is too steep for me.

I do see in the distance the sweet light
toward which you spur and turn me along bitter paths,
but unlike you I have no wings to fly.

You leave my desires enough satisfied
as long as I am consumed with desiring well
and it does not displease her that I sigh for her.

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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