Carmina Burana (13th century) - Axe Phebus aureo

Carmina Burana (13th century) - Axe Phebus aureo

Clemencic Consort, dir. René Clemencic

Yves Rouquette, récitant
René Zosso, chant
Pilar Figueras, soprano
Zeger Vandersteene, Hans Breitschopf, contre-ténors
Pedro Liendo, baryton

Phoebus in his golden car
Lights the firmament,
And with rosy glows imparts
His shaftings down to men.
Cybele in elegance arrayed
With her flowering face
To Bacchus gives a fresh bouquet,
While Phoebus beams with grace.

With the help of winds that blend
All throughout the grove,
Little birds their beauties lend
As they chant of love.
Philomel now renews her blame
Of Tereus for wrongs,
Joining the blackbird in refrains
Adapted for their songs.

Now Dione's
Chorus joyously
Zealously answers
Their various chants.
And now Dione
In jest and in agony
Lightens, then tightens
Her worshipers' hearts.

Me too she pulls
Away from my sleep.
Me too she rules:
"Now vigil keep!"
Cupid's golden shaft
I'm forced to bear;
Ire-filled fires
Through my body tear!

Whatever I'm plied
I recant.
For what I'm denied
I will pant
In a mind severely swayed.
When a thing is ceded me,
I waver;
Yet whoever won't heed me
I favor;
About me you can truly say:

I'm faithful; I'll go to my grave
For her, or else for her I'm saved.
If she wants me, I'm all through.
If she taunts me, I pursue.
The more I rejected the lawful,
The more I deflect toward the awful.
The more the unspiced one's allowed me,
The more the unlicensed one cows me.

O Dione's baleful decrees!
Poison to flee working inwardly,
Fearsome lechery, full of treachery.
Mistress of might, whose torture's a fright.
Your serfs you requite with bitterness' bite.
Full of all slights and fiery spite!

And so in me a fear is swelling,
and down my cheeks the tears come welling.
And so my face looks frayed and pale;
It is: in love I've been betrayed, I fail

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Carmina
• Burana
• (13th
• century)
• Axe
• Phebus
• aureo
• Clemencic
• Consort
• Rouquette
• Zosso
• Figueras
• Vandersteene
• Breitschopf
• Liendo