Barbara Strozzi: Priego ad amore (Pegasus Early Music and NYS Baroque)

Описание: NYS Baroque and Pegasus Early Music present
Venice
Barbara Strozzi: Priego ad amore
Laura Heimes, Shari Alise Wilson, sopranos:
Debi Wong, mezzo-soprano; Andrew Fuchs, tenor; Steven Hrycelak, bass;
Emily Walhout, viola da gamba and lirone; Naomi Gregory, harpsichord;
Michael Leopold, Deborah Fox, theorbos
Recorded live in concert November 4, 2018

Priego ad Amore
Pietosissimo Amore,
tu mai non abbandoni
chi ti consacra riverente il core.
chi cieco ti figura,
chi nudo, chi bendato,
chi di saette armato,
non provò tua dolcissima natura.
Morir, né morir mai,
languir, ma per un poco,
è gloria del tuo foco.
Vieni, deh, vieni a noi,
vieni, gioia dell’alme,
spargi, spargi benigno i doni tuoi,
e d’un cortese affetto
alla Barbara mia feconda il petto.
(Giulio Strozzi)

Prayer to Love
Merciful Love,
you never abandon those
who reverently consecrate their hearts to you.
Those who represent you as blind,
naked, blindfolded,
armed with arrows,
have never known your sweet gentle nature.
To die without ever dying,
to languish but only for a while,
is the glory of your fire.
Come, oh, come to us,
come, joy of the soul,
Bestow, bestow your gifts with benevolence,
and enflame my Barbara's breast
with a loving passion.
~translation Richard Kolb