miércoles, 21 de noviembre de 2012

Hail, Bright Cecilia!


Santa Cecilia, por Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Basílica de Santa Cecilia in Trastevere, Roma
 En el día de Santa Cecilia, mi saludo a todos los músicos y los melómanos.


Henry Purcell
1659-1695
Compositor

De Henry Purcell, uno de mis autores favoritos:

Oda por el día de Santa Cecilia, Z 328.
Interpretación de Gabrielli Consort & Players,
bajo la dirección de Paul McCreesh



Texto de Nicholas Brady
 
1.
Hail! Bright Cecilia, Hail! fill ev'ry Heart!
With Love of thee and thy Celestial Art;
That thine and Musick's Sacred Love
May make the British Forest prove
As Famous as Dodona's Vocal Grove.

2.
Hark! hark! each Tree its silence breaks,
The Box and Fir to talk begin!
This is the sprightly Violin
That in the Flute distinctly speaks!
'Twas Sympathy their list'ning Brethren drew,
When to the Thracian Lyre with leafy Wings they flew.

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