Claudio Monteverdi, Lamento della Ninfa, Vox Luminis, Kristen Witmer

Claudio Monteverdi
1567 - 1643

Lamento della Ninfa
from the 8th book of Madrigals (1623)

Vox Luminis

Kristen Witmer (www.kristenwitmer.com) - Ninfa

Olivier Berten
Robert Buckland
Bertrand Delvaux

David van Bouwel (organ)
Benoit Vanden Bemden (Violone)
Sara Louise Ridy (harp)
Cristian Gutierrez (Theorbo)
Masato Suzuki (Harpsichord)

more information about the piece:
http://imslp.org/wiki/Madrigals,_Book_8,_SV_146%E2%80%93167_%28Monteverdi,_Claudio%29

english translation:

The Sun had not brought
The day to the world yet,
When a maiden
Went out of her dwelling.

On her pale face
Grief could be seen,
Often from her heart
A deep sigh was drawn.

Thus, treading upon flowers,
She wandered, now here, now there,
And lamented her lost loves
Like this:
- O Love - she said,
Gazing at the sky, as she stood -
Where's the fidelity
That the deceiver promised? -
Poor her!

- Make my love come back
As he used to be
Or kill me, so that
I will not suffer anymore. -

Poor her! She cannot bear
All this coldness!

- I don't want him to sigh any longer
But if he's far from me.
No! He will not make me suffer
Anymore, I swear!

He's proud
Because I languish for him.
Perhaps if I fly away from him
He will come to pray to me again.

If her eyes are more serene
Than mine,
O Love, she does not hold in her heart
A fidelity so pure as mine.

And you will not receive from those lips
Kisses as sweet as mine,
Nor softer. Oh, don't speak!
Don't speak! you know better than that! -

So amidst disdainful tears,
She spread her crying to the sky;
Thus, in the lovers' hearts
Love mixes fire and ice.
Auxi-le-Chateau
6-10-2013
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