Hvorostovsky in 1990 - Fenesta che lucive 2

Moscow 1990
Mikhail Arkadiev - piano

A hauntingly beautiful and devastatingly sad song. The audience demanded a bis, which I've never seen in a recital.

Fenesta che lucive e mo nun luce...
sign'è ca nénna mia stace malata...
S'affaccia la surella e mme lu dice:
Nennélla toja è morta e s'è atterrata...

Chiagneva sempe ca durmeva sola,
mo dorme co' li muorte accompagnata...

Va' dint''a cchiesa, e scuopre lu tavuto:
vide nennélla toja comm'è tornata...
Da chella vocca ca n'ascéano sciure,
mo n'esceno li vierme...Oh! che piatate!

Zi' parrocchiano mio, ábbece cura:
na lampa sempe tienece allummata...

The once-lit window, now dark
means that my sweetheart is ill
Her sister looks out and tells me:
Your sweetheart is dead and buried

She always used to cry that she slept alone,
Now she sleeps in the company of the dead

Go to the church, and look into her coffin
See how your sweetheart is now
From the mouth that once came words of love,
But now only wormsOh! What sadness!

Priest: take care of my little one:
always keep a lamp lit by her

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