Hvorostosky - Soupir & Le manoir de Rosemonde (Henri Duparc)

Recital in Moscow, 2005
Fortepiano: Ivari Ilya

Soupir

Ne jamais la voir ni lentendre,
Ne jamais tout haut la nommer,
Mais, fidèle, toujours lattendre,
Toujours laimer!
Ouvrir les bras, et, las dattendre,
Sur la néant les refermer!
Mais encor, toujours les lui tendre
Toujours laimer.
Ah! ne pouvoir que les lui tendre
Et dans les pleurs se consumer,
Mais ces pleurs toujours les répandre,
Toujours laimer
Ne jamais la voir ni lentendre,
Ne jamais tout haut la nommer,
Mais dun amour toujours plus tendre
Toujours laimer. Toujours!

Never to see or hear her,
never to name her aloud,
but faithfully always to wait for her
and love her.

To open my arms and, tired of waiting,
to close them on nothing,
but still always to stretch them out to her
and to love her.

To only be able to stretch them out to her,
and then to be consumed in tears,
but always to shed these tears,
always to love her.

Never to see or hear her,
never to name her aloud,
but with a love that grows ever more tender,
always to love her. Always!

Le manoir de Rosamonde
Language: French


De sa dent soudaine et vorace,
Comme un chien l'amour m'a mordu...
En suivant mon sang répandu,
Va, tu pourras suivre ma trace...

Prends un cheval de bonne race,
Pars, et suis mon chemin ardu,
Fondrière ou sentier perdu,
Si la course ne te harasse!

En passant par où j'ai passé,
Tu verras que seul et blessé
J'ai parcouru ce triste monde.

Et qu'ainsi je m'en fus mourir
Bien loin, bien loin, sans découvrir
Le bleu manoir de Rosamonde.

Love, like a dog, has bitten me
with its sudden, voracious teeth...
Come, the trail of spilt blood
will enable you to follow my tracks.

Take a horse of good pedigree
and set off on the arduous route I took,
through swamps and overgrown paths,
if that's not too exhausting a ride for you!

As you pass where I passed,
you will see that I travelled
alone and wounded through this sad world,

and thus went off to my death
far, far away, without ever finding
Rosemonde's blue manor-house.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Dmitri
• Hvorostovsky
• Soupir
• Le
• manoir
• de
• Rosemonde
• Duparc
• Recital
• Хворостовский

[eurydike]

it is a very beautiful small:-))))) voice. i don´t mind what they say about the volume:-))

why should anybody allow him to sing in the met if he couldnt be heard? audience would boo at him :-)

[frufruJ]

@eurydike I saw him in Il Trovatore with Alagna and Radvanovsky in London, as Rigoletto in Vienna, and two recitals of Russian art songs. He was wonderful every time :-)

[pineapplesontrees]

i actually think its a recording mic. for sound quality on the recording.

[frufruJ]

Sure it is. Rexeterna is convinced that Mr. Hvorostovsky needs a mic hidden in the costume when he performs opera. I must confess that I wasn't aware of what TenoreRobusto suggests, the fashion is either so obscure that even my singing teacher doesn't know it, or hasn't arrived to Central Europe. But here it's certainly for the recording.

[spintotenor83]

This man is incredible! Big voice or not. He has a top notch instrument with top notch skills, and can get the message to the audience. A true artist.

[frufruJ]

Thanks for your comment. I forgot to say that I saw him in Il Trovatore, and his voice was perhaps even a tad bit bigger than Alagna's.

[squishy1403]

Great singer, but after he screwed up the rhythm in Le Manoir, I couldn't help laughing when he fell back on singer technique 101, when you screw up, you meant to do it, and it's the damn accompanists fault for not reading you. For the rest of the piece, he forcefully creates alternate rhythms with lots and lots of emphasis. I couldn't stop laughing! Soupir though, fantastic.

[eurydike]

i like this video very much, these are beatiful songs. My favourite part begins at 4:35 :-)

[eurydike]

i like this video very much, these are beatiful songs.

[eurydike]

@frufruJ i envy and totally believe you :-)

[eurydike]

@frufruJ where and when did you see him ? Can´t you add more information:-)? thank you. I can´t wait to see the Trovatore live in hd from the MET :-)

[po1212Po]

I'm not native french, what a pity!But DH too.What a beauty of music! His voice is from the most beautiful lyric baritones I ever heard, and here he make it reverberating like in gottic cathedral(not just here-- in some of russian songs,too).ADMIRATION!!!