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Tu piangi, e quella per chi fai tal pianto

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

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Tu piangi, et quella per chi fai tal pianto
Ne ride, et ride ’l ciel che l’ha raccolta
Fra l’alme elette, libera e disciolta
Dal fral, caduco et corruptibil manto.

Lei, tutta intenta al lume divo e santo,
Dolc’harmonia per ogni parte ascolta,
Poi volgendosi a se si dice, “O stolta,
Perché se’ in terra dimorata tanto?”

Et quando gli occhi suoi qua giù declina,
Vedendo la pregion d’ond’è partita,
Si duol di tua miseria e trista sorte.

El viver nostr’è un fior colto da spina;
Però piange la tua, non la sua morte,
Che morte è quella che si chiama vita.

Antonio Tebaldeo
Opere (Modena, 1498)

You weep, and she for whom you weep
laughs, and heaven laughs, which has received her
among the elect souls, free and released
from her frail, impermanent, and corruptible mantle.

She, all intent on the divine and holy light,
hears sweet harmony on every side,
then, turning to herself, says: “O foolish one,
why did you linger so long on earth?”

And when she lowers her eyes down here,
seeing the prison from which she escaped
she grieves over your misery and sad fate.

Our life is a flower plucked from amongst thorns;
so weep for your death, not for hers,
for death is that which we call “life.”

Translation by Scott Metcalfe, Cf. Translation by Angela Lloyd

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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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