Vorrei baciarti (Monteverdi) Sara Mingardo & Monica Bacelli

Vorrei baciarti, o Fill, madrigal for 2 voices (from Book 7), SV 123
by Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)
 
Sara Mingardo, contralto
Monica Bacelli, mezzo-soprano
Concerto Italiano under Rinaldo Alessandrini
 
Vorrei baciarti, o Filli,
ma non so prima ove
il mio bacio scocchi,
ne la bocca o ne gl’occhi.
Cedan le labbra a voi, lumi divini,
fidi specchi del core,
vive stelle d’amore.
Ah, pur mi volgo a voi, perle e rubini,
tesoro di bellezza,
fontana di dolcezza,
bocca, onor del viso:
nasce il pianto da lor, tu m’apri il riso.
- Giambattista Marino (1569-1625)

I should like to kiss you, Phyllis,
but I do not know
where my kiss should first touch,
on your lips or your eyes.
Let your lips defer to you, heavenly eyes,
faithful mirrors of your heart,
bright stars of love.
Ah, yet I turn to you, pearls and rubies,
jewel of beauty, fountain of sweetness,
lips, the glory of your face,
while tears are born from them,
you open your smile to me.
- Translation by Kenneth Chalmers

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Art in the video:
[0:26] Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)
[0:44] Jules Salles-Wagner (1814–1900)
[1:03] August Spiess (1841-1923)
[1:44] Karl Ferdinand Sohn (1805-1867)
[2:35] Cesare Auguste Detti (1847-1914)
[2:56] Federico Andreotti (1847-1930)
[3:35] Joseph Noel Paton (1821–1901)
[3:49] François Boucher (1703-1770)
[4:25] Frank Dicksee (1853–1928)
[5:03] Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828–1882)

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