Pensieri voi mi tormentate Handel Ann Hallenberg

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Pensieri, voi mi tormentate from the opera Agrippina, HWV 6 • by George Frideric Handel (1685-1759) • Ann Hallenberg, mezzo-soprano • Vinciane Baudhuin, oboe • Il Pomo d'Oro • Riccardo Minasi, conductor • Pensieri, voi mi tormentate! • Ciel, soccorri a miei disegni, • Il mio figlio fa che regni, • E voi Numi il secondate! • Quel ch'oprai è soggeto a gran perglio. • Creduto Claudio estinto • A Narciso e a Pallante • fidai troppo me stessa. • Ottone ha merto, ed ha Poppea coraggio. • S'è scoperto l'inganno • Di riparar l'oltraggio. • Ma fra tanti nemici • A voi, frodi, or è tempo; • Deh, non m'abbandonate! • Pensieri, voi mi tormentate! • TRANSLATION (by Christine Conway-Morris): • Thoughts, you torment me. • Heaven assist my plans! • Let my son reign, • And you gods support him! • What I worked for is in great danger. • Believing Claudio to be dead, • In Narciso and Pallante • I confided too much. • Ottone has integrity and Poppea has courage, • If my ploy is discovered, • To dress the wrong. • But among so many enemies • Your time has come, deceitful strategems; • O do not abandon me! • Thoughts, you torment me! • Available from Deutsche Harmonia Mundi: • https://www.ilpomodoro.org/record/agr... • Art in the video: • [0:42] Messalina by Peder Severin Krøyer (1851–1909) • [2:14] Talma as Nero in Britannicus by Racine by Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) • [2:44] A Grecian Lovely by John William Godward (1861–1922) • [4:00] Charlotte Wolter as ‘Messalina' by Hans Makart (1840–1884) • [4:53] Portrait of a Roman Woman by Anselm Feuerbach (1829–1880) • [5:36] The Remorse of Nero After the Murder of His Mother by John William Waterhouse (1849–1917) • [5:54] Portrait of a Roman Lady by Sir Frederic Leighton (1830–1896)

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