Ecco mormorar l'onde - Madrigal for 5 voices, composed by Claudio Monteverdi (1567 - 1643)

Описание: From the Second Book of Madrigals (Il secondo libro de madrigali a cinque voci), published ca. 1590.

Recorded in October, 2016 at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen - Germany

Interpreters:
Sojeong Im (Soprano I)
Cornelia Fahrion (Soprano II)
Fábio Maciel (Alto/Tenor I)
Jan Van Elsacker (Tenor II)
Saloum Diawara (Bass)

Musical Direction: Jan Van Elsacker
Recording Engineer: Wolfgang Mittermaier

Text (Poem by Torquato Tasso):

Ecco mormorar l’onde
e tremolar le fronde
a l’aura mattutina e gl’arborscelli
E sovra i verdi rami i vaghi augelli
cantar soavemente
e rider l’Oriente

Ecco già l’alba appare
e si specchia nel mare
e rasserena il cielo
e imperla il dolce gelo
e gl’alti monti indora
O bella e vaga aurora
l’aura è tua messaggera
e tu de l’aura
ch’ogn’arso cor ristaura

English translation:
Hear now the murmuring waves
The rustle in the tree tops
As morning breezes stir the swaying branches.
And on the verdant boughs
The birds sing sweetly
Airs that greet the sunrise
The eastern sky is beaming.

See how the dawn arises
Mirror’d deep in the ocean.
She brightens all the heavens.
She turns to pearl drops of dew
And decks the mountains with gold.
O loveliest and gracious Aurora,
The Breezes are your heralds ,
And you are theirs envoy.
Scalded hearts to life restoring