Lamento di Tristano - Hesperion XXI

[lukaniksa]

I can almost smell the middle age! Thank you, dear Savall!

[pitsinokaki]

Thank you very much for uploading it.

[Oszych2]

That was amazing. Thank you so much for posting it.

[OstrogothRome]

An empty town, deep in the Arabian Desert dust,

Its sand filled streets once full of love and hate, of deep romance and shallow greed,

Streets once full of sound, now mute witness to what might have been,

The money changers now all are gone, but time’s changes carry on regardless,

Love’s serenades no longer fill its lanes, but the desert sands whistle on forever

[punkblonde007]

@OstrogothRome That was a lovely scripture. Thanks so much for sharing this... :)

[OstrogothRome]

Years pass, and people come once more, but not to sell and not to buy,

Not to give but only take, to take from empty streets and fallen houses,

Travellers come to stare at empty places, their uses long forgotten,

But as you pass and stare as well, so ponder this,

Will those travellers come again one day,

And gaze this way upon your city too?

[Eternhall]

Love it. On which Hesperion XX cd can i find it ?

[DiogenesTheCynical]

@Eternhall on "Orient-Occident"

[OstrogothRome]

Legend has it that many hundred years ago,men wrote not upon paper but upon glowing boxes, and travelled many leagues in a day upon chariots driven by essence from the earth itself - they be the ones who made those old tracks of black rock the ruins of which still cross our land. This magic race could even fly many miles high in tubes of iron that flew over thesea itself. But all that of course is mere legend and witchcraft, he who says otherwise shall be burned at the stake.

[Davccelion]

@OstrogothRome, interesting idea though! A superior civilization, of course...

[caroleabumoussa]

@OstrogothRome Where is this legend from? What region & what beliefs?

[OstrogothRome]

@caroleabumoussa Perhaps the same legends that tell of a lost land west of Wales, or the race of giants that put in place the huge stones of the Temple of Ballbek; the same garbled legends that gave us the scrying glass where once was an earlier Internet, or that which gave us the flying broomstick, simple folk-copy of a rocket exhaiust. In 1,000 years our technology will have left such similar fantastic tales to our agrarian descendants.

[Chipchik]

Superb

[Death2Green]

Excellent.

[PalvoChekov]

Neat!