Monteverdi Lamento della Ninfa

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Helen Charlston and Toby Carr perform Claudio Monteverdi’s ‘Lamento della Ninfa’ with members of The Gesualdo Six as part of London Sound Gallery. • Watch the complete concert performance: https://london-sound-gallery.tidze.com. • The London Sound Gallery online series will be broadcast in stunning 4K on Sundays at 5pm from 25 October to 29 November. Ticket holders will be able to watch on-demand from the date of broadcast until 1 January 2021. • The London Sound Gallery festival themes include new beginnings and reconnection: in this spirit, The Gesualdo Six are delighted to be collaborating with each artist as part of their programme. • - - • Monteverdi: Lamento della Ninfa (Lament of the Nymph) • The god Phoebus had still to light • The great fires of the dawn • When the nymph left her dwelling. • • Her face a pale temple in its ruins of grief; • Her cries – a heart, rending. • • Hither and thither she went, • Stumbling through flowers, • Grieving the love she had lost: • Hear me, O Love, she begged the heavens, • – stock still now, rooted to the spot – • What happened to that traitor’s vow,‘ • Togetherness and trust’?'' • I just want him back, • But as he was before. • If you cannot – then kill me; • I cannot bear this agony. • No more will I listen to his sighs, • Unless we are separated by a thousand seas • No! No longer will I martyr myself for this. • I am destroying myself because of him, • And the worse it is, the more gorged, • The more satisfied he seems. • If I were to flee from him, • Perhaps then he might come begging? • That woman’s eyebrows • May be arched more perfectly than mine, • But sealed within my breast, • O Love,Lives a faithfulness still fairer. • And that woman’s mouth will never open • To give such kisses as I can give! • (Hush! Say nothing – you know only too well!) • With these cries she cast • Her anguish to the heavens. • And so it is that in the heart of every lover • Burns, side-by-side, love’s flame and ice. • #LondonSoundGallery #classicalmusic

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