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Reading: Strane rupi, aspri monti, alte tremanti

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

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Strane rupi, aspri monti, alte tremanti
Ruine e sassi al ciel nudi e scoperti,
Ove a gran pena pon salir tant’erti
Nuvoli in questo fosco aer fumanti;

Superbo horror, tacite selve e tanti
Negr’antr’herbosi in rotte pietre aperti,
Abbandonati, sterili deserti
Ove han paura andar le belve erranti:

A guisa d’hom che da soverchia pena
Il cor trist’ange, fuor di senn’uscito
Se n’ va piangendo ove la furia il mena,

Vo piangend’io tra voi, e se partito
Non cangia il ciel, con voce assai più piena
Sarò di là tra le mest’ombre udito.

Niccolò Amanio
in Delle rime di diversi nobili huomini et eccellenti poeti…libro secondo (Venice, 1547)

Strange cliffs, harsh mountains, high shaking
ruins, and rocks naked and exposed to Heaven,
where with great effort such steep clouds
of smoke rise in the gloomy, fuming air;

awesome horror, silent woods, and so many
black grass-grown caves opened into broken stones;
abandoned, barren deserts
where wandering beasts go in fear:

Like a man whose sad heart is torn
with excessive pain, out of his mind,
who goes weeping wherever madness leads him,

I go weeping among you: and if Heaven does not
take my side, with much fuller voice
will I be heard from among the sad shades.

Translation by Scott Metcalfe, Cf. Translation by Martha Feldman

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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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