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Très très innocent et très très excitant.

Artist: Watter
Title: Rustic Fog
Album: This World
Release Date: May 27, 2014

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Watter – Rustic Fog

"Django" forma parte del nuevo álbum de Chano Domínguez & Nino Josele, a la venta el próximo 17 de Junio. 

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Django

Chano Dominguez & Nino Josele - "Django"

Arvo Pärt- Spiegel Im Spiegel

Philippe Jaroussky and his Ensemble Artaserse live, Versailles, 2009. You can find the whole concert on YouTube! (I cleaned up the audio a little.) 

The opera "(La) Merope" tells the story of Merope, the widow of King Cresfonte (greek: Kresphontes). Her husband and children were killed by his enemy, with only her son Epitide (greek: Aipytos) escaping this fate. Growing up in exile, Epitide falls in love with Argia. The plot culminates in Act III, when Epitide finds himself completely alone among the two people who he thought knew him best. 

Originally, the role of Epitide was sung by Farinelli. 

In "Sposa, non mi conosci", Epitide addresses his mother Merope and his lover, Argia, alternately, which makes for a slightly confusing text. Later, Vivaldi used the achingly beautiful piece for his pasticcio "Bajazet", but with an altered text: "Sposa, son disprezzata".

*Italian*
Sposa, non mi conosci? 
Madre, tu non mi ascolti. 
(Cieli che feci mai!)
E pur sono il tuo Cor, 
Il tuo figlio, il tuo amor 
La tua speranza.

Parla, ma sei infedel
Credi, ma sei crudel
Morir mi lascerai?
Oh dio! manca il valor
E la costanza.

*English translation*
And am I to my spouse unknown? 
Will not my mother lend an ear? 
Say, oh ye gods, what have I done,
Deserves a torture thus severe! 
I once was object of thy love; 
Thou plac'd thy hopes in me thy son. 

Speak; but thou dost faithless prove. 
Believe; but thou art cruel grown. 
What will ye both, than, let me die, 
Ye gods, I find I can't prevail: 
And now I feel my constancy,
And former courage both do fail. 

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Philippe Jaroussky sings "Sposa, non mi conosci" from Geminiano Giacomelli's opera "La Merope"

"Gelido in ogni vena"
Giovanni Battista Ferrandini, "Siroe"
Libretto: Pietro Metastasio

Countertenor + piano accompagniment: Philippe Jaroussky
Live on France Inter Nov 2023
Cosroes' aria (Act III, scene V)

Gelido in ogni vena
Scorrer mi sento il sangue,
L'ombra del figlio esangue
M'ingombra di terror.

E per maggior mia pena
Vedo che fui crudele
A un'anima innocente,
Al core del mio cor.

**
I feel my blood congealing run 
Thro' ev'ry vein, in ev'ry part, 
And the pale ghost of my dear son,
Strikes dread and terror to my heart. 

And still to add to greater woe,
The loyal innocent I've slain,
Of cruelty at length I know,
I, on myself, have fix'd the stain. 

Gelido in ogni vena" is an aria from a libretto by Pietro Metastasio*. It appears in two distinct operas: "Siroe" and "Farnace". (Farnace: 1927, "Gelido in ogni vena" was set to music by almost every composer in Baroque and beyond. The approaches are very different and interesting to hear. They range from Vinci's approach which is more pleasing than it is gripping to Vivaldi's soul-crushing benchmark of what a baroque aria can be.

The fellow Venetian Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (*1710) has a yet different approach. It's not quite clear when his version was composed, only that it happened before 1758. The dread that befalls Cosroe when he imagines seeing his deceased son whom he (justly) feels he has wronged that makes his blood run cold with fear and guilt, Ferrandini illustrates with fragile diminished jumps and subtle harmonic shifts and chromatics as Cosroe's world is coming apart at the seams, shifting and shaking while he tries to somehow smoothen the cracks and live on. More personal and intimate than Vivaldi's, Ferrandini's interpretation is sublime by its own merit.

*) (this seems more likely even though some sources credit Antonio Maria Lucchini, but it seems that his version didn't contain "Gelido ...")

The full radio podcast is still available here: 
https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/le-grand-atelier/le-grand-atelier-du-dimanche-05-novembre-2023-5102248

Translation Source: Siroe, re di Persia. Drama per musica, etc.
1736, British library
https://www.google.de/books/edition/Siroe_re_di_Persia_Drama_per_musica_etc/NnkCXEdNB4wC?hl=de&gbpv=0

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Philippe Jaroussky sings "Gelido in ogni vena" from Giovanni Battista Ferrandini's "Siroe"

Sì dolce e'l tormento, SV 332
Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)
Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor)
L'Arpeggiata Ensemble
(remastered)

Sì dolce è'l tormento 
Ch'in seno mi sta, 
Ch'io vivo contento 
Per cruda beltà. 
Nel ciel di bellezza 
S'accreschi fierezza 
Et manchi pietà: 
Che sempre qual scoglio  
All'onda d'orgoglio 
Mia fede sarà. 

La speme fallace 
Rivolgam' il piè. 
Diletto ne pace 
Non scendano a me. 
E l'empia ch'adoro 
Mi nieghi ristoro 
Di buona mercè: 
Tra doglia infinita, 
Tra speme tradita 
Vivrà la mia fè. 

[Per foco e per gelo
Riposo non hò.
Nel porto del cielo
Riposo avrò.
Se colpo mortale
Con rigido strale
Il cor m'impiagò,
Cangiando mia sorte
Col dardo di morte
Il cor sanerò.]

Se fiamma d'amore 
Già mai non sentì 
Quel rigido core 
Ch'il cor mi rapì, 
Se nega pietate 
La cruda beltate 
Che l'alma invaghì: 
Ben fia che dolente, 
Pentita e languente 
Sospirimi un dì.
~~

So sweet is the torment 
That lies in my heart,
That I live happily 
In the face of cruel beauty.
In heaven's beauty 
Fierce pride may grow bold
Without pity 
But always my faith 
Will be a rock 
Against that wave of pride.

May false hope 
Turn back from me
May neither delight 
Nor peace descend upon me.
And the cruel woman I adore 
Deny me 
Merciful relief; 
Amidst infinite pain
Amidst broken hope, 
My faith shall survive.

[From fire and ice 
I will find no repose
Only at the gate of heaven 
I shall find repose.
Should the deadly strike 
Of an arrow 
Injure my heart, 
My heart shall heal
By changning my lot 
With that arrow of death]

If that unyielding heart 
That has captured mine
Has never felt 
The flames of love,
If the cruel beauty 
That enthralled my soul
Denies me pity, 
Then let it be that one day,
Languishing in pain and repentance,
She will sigh for me.


The performance is on YouTube: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XsKXV90Yna8&ab_channel=K%C3%AAnh%C3%82mnh%E1%BA%A1cc%E1%BB%95%C4%91i%E1%BB%83n
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Philippe Jaroussky sings "Sì dolce è'l tormento" by Claudio Monteverdi

Giulio Cesare in Egitto (Julius Caesar in Egypt)
Georg Friedrich Händel
Libretto: Fancesco Haym

"Empio, dirò, tu sei"
Philippe Jaroussky
Ensemble Matheus
cond.: Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Casare's aria

Empio, dirò, tu sei
Togliti a gli occhi miei
Sei tutto crudeltà

Non è da re quel cuor
Che donasi al rigor
Che in sen non ha pietà

***
Wicked, I will say, you are
Get out of my sight
You are all cruelty

The heart is not fit for a king
That gives itself to harshness
That knows no pity

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Philippe Jaroussky sings "Empio, dirò tu sei" from George Frideric Handel's "Giulio Cesare"

Polifemo
Nicola Antonio Porpora
Libretto: Paolo Antonio Rolli

"Alto Giove" (Mighty Jove)
Philippe Jaroussky
Ensemble Matheus
cond.: Jean-Christophe Spinosi
Aci's Aria

Alto Giove è tua grazia
E tuo vanto il gran dono
Di vita immortale
Che il tuo cenno
Sovrano mi fa
***
Mighty Jove,
by your grace and your merit,
your sovereign gesture bestows upon me
the gift of immortal life.

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Philippe Jaroussky sings "Alto Giove" from Nicola Porpora's "Polifemo" (2010)

2046. Polonaise. Shigeru Umebayashi

Magnificat; composer Arvo Pärt. Recorded in St Cyprians chapel with a howling Southeaster raging :)

Magnificat - Arvo Part

Alberto Iglesias - Me Voy A Morir De Tanto Amor

Rose's Theme (The Straight Story)

Cum Dederit

Nisi Dominus - Stabat Mater - Cum dederit delectis (Philippe Jaroussky)

Leonard Cohen & Philip Glass - The Book of Longing

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