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* lamento della ninfa - claudio monteverdi 

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Phoebus had not yet brought daylight to the world when a damsel came out of her dwelling. Her suffering was plain on her face, and frequently she let great sighs loose from her heart. Thus trampling the flowers, she wandered here and there, and her lost love she thus wept: "Love," she said, stopping to look at the heavens, "where, where is the faith that the traitor swore to me? Let my love return as he was, or else kill me, so that I may no longer torment myself." Poor wretch, alas, nol longer can she suffer such scorn. "I don't want him to sigh except away from me, I no longer want him to confide his sufferings in me. Because I suffer for him, he is proud; will he beseech me if I flee from him? She may have a more serene brow than mine, but even Love's breast does not harbor such beautiful constancy. Never will he have such sweet kisses from that mouth, nor softer - be still, be still, that he knows all too well. Thus among scornful weeping she scattered her laments to the sky; thus in lovers' hearts Love mixes flame and ice.

 

 

 

 

* l'orfeo -claudio monteverdi

 

 

 

music director: René Jacobs,

Orfeo: Simon Keenlyside,

choreography: Trisha Brown

 

 

ORPHEUS:
See now, I return to you,
dear woods and beloved hills,
made blessed by that sun
through whom alone my darkness is lightened.

FIRST SHEPHERD:
Look, Orpheus, how the shade
of those beech trees invites us,
now that Phoebus darts
burning rays from heaven.

On these grassy banks
let us rest, and let each
in his own way let loose his voice
to the murmur of the waters.

FIRST & SECOND SHEPHERDS:
In this flowery meadow
every sylvan deity
is often wont
to linger for his pleasure.

Here Pan, the shepherds' god,
has sometimes been heard lamenting,
sweetly recalling
his unrequited loves.

CHORUS of NYMPHS & SHEPHERDS:
Here the charming dryads,
a company always decked with flowers,
have been seen gathering roses
with white fingers.

Therefore, Orpheus, make worthy
of the sound of your lyre
these fields, where there blows
a breeze with the perfumes of Araby.

ORPHEUS:
Do you recall, O shady woods,
my long, bitter torments,
when the rocks, their hearts softened,
replied to my laments?

Say, did I not then seem to you
more wretched than any other?
Now Fortune has changed her tune
and turned my woes into rejoicing.

Once I lived in sadness and sorrow;
now I rejoice, and those anxieties
that I have suffered for so many years
make my present happy state more dear.

Through you alone, lovely Eurydice,
I bless my torments;
after sorrow, one is all the more content,
after woe, one is all the happier.

FIRST SHEPHERD:
See, O see, Orpheus, how all around
the woods and the meadow smile.
Then continue, with your golden plectrum,
to sweeten the air on so blessed a day.

 

 

 

*  12 Fantasias for Solo Violin, Fantasia I in B flat Major TWV 40:14

- Georg Philipp Telemann

 

 

 

Largo - Allegro ( 2:42 )

Grave ( 4:36 )

Si replica l'allegro ( 6:16 )

baroque violin, Rachel Podger
violin: Pesarinius 1739

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Fennesz + Sakamoto 坂本龍一 - Flumina 0322 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* Alva Noto + Ryuichi Sakamoto with Ensemble Modern - UTP

 

 

 

 

 

* A Fire In The Forest - David Sylvian [live, 2004]
- at the Woman's University, Hitoini Memorial Hall, Tokyo, Japan.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*  starless - king crimson [red, 1975]

 

Robert Fripp: guitar, mellotron
John Wetton: bass guitar, vocals
Bill Bruford: drums, percussion
David Cross: violin
Mel Collins: soprano saxophone
Ian McDonald: alto saxophone

 

 

 

Sundown dazzling day
Gold through my eyes
But my eyes turned within
Only see
Starless and bible black

Old friend charity
Cruel twisted smile
And the smile signals emptiness
For me
Starless and bible black

Ice blue silver sky
Fades into grey
To a grey hope that oh yearns to be
Starless and bible black

 

 

* Oblivion - Al Di Meola
Album: Plays Piazzolla (1990)

* Tango Suite, Part 1
- in Al Di Meola played Astor Piazzolla [1991]