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Reading: Hor che 'l ciel et la terra e ’l vento tace

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

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Hor che ’l ciel et la terra e ’l vento tace,
Et le fere e gli augelli il sono affrena,
Notte ’l carro stellato in giro mena,
Et nel suo letto il mar senz’onda giace,

Veggio, penso, ardo, piango, e chi mi sface
Sempre m’è inanzi per mia dolce pena.
Guerra è ’l mio stato, d’ira e di duol piena,
Et sol di lei pensando ho qualche pace.

Così sol d’una chiara fonte viva
Move ’l dolce e l’amaro ond’io mi pasco:
Una man sola mi risana e punge,

Et perche ’l mio martir non giunga a riva,
Mille volte il dì moro, e mille nasco,
Tanto da la salute mia son lunge.

Francesco Petrarca, Canzoniere 164

Now that the heavens and the earth and the wind are silent
and sleep reins in the beasts and the birds,
Night drives her starry car about,
and in his bed the sea lies without a wave,

I wake, I think, I burn, I weep; and she who destroys me
is always before me, to my sweet pain.
War is my state, full of wrath and suffering,
and only thinking of her do I have any peace.

Thus from one clear living fountain alone
springs the sweet and the bitter on which I feed:
one hand alone heals me and pierces me,

and so that my suffering may not reach its end,
a thousand times a day I die and a thousand am born,
so far am I from my health.

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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