Le colibri - Ernest Chausson - Patricia Nesci

Le colibri (The Hummingbird) performed in October 2009. "Chausson perfectly captures a dreamy and sensuous garden in which a hummingbird floats in midair. He creates a delicate line, notes that simply float away, and arpeggios that seem to perfectly capture a hummingbirds movement. The poems sense of longing for love are also not lost."

Le colibri (French)

Le vert colibri,
le roi des collines,
Voyant la rosée et le soleil clair,
Luire dans son nid tissé d'herbes fines,
Comme un frais rayon s'échappe dans l'air.
Il se hâte et vole aux sources voisines,
Où les bambous font le bruit de la mer,
Où l'açoka rouge aux odeurs divines
S'ouvre et porte au coeur un humide éclair.
Vers la fleur dorée, il descend, se pose,
Et boit tant d'amour dans la coupe rose,

Qu'il meurt, ne sachant s'il l'a pu tarir!
Sur ta lèvre pure, ô ma bien-aimée,
Telle aussi mon âme eut voulu mourir,
Du premier baiser qui l'a parfumée.

The Hummingbird (English)

The green hummingbird,
the prince of the heights,
feeling the dew and seeing the sun's clear light
shining into his nest of woven grass,
shoots up in the air like a gleaming dart.
Hurriedly he flies to the nearby marsh
where the waves of bamboo rustle and bend,
and the red hibiscus with the heavenly scent
opens to show its moist and glistening heart.
Down to the flower he flies, alights from above,
and from the rosy cup drinks so much love

that he dies, not knowing if he could drink it dry.
Even so, my darling, on your pure lips
my soul and senses would have wished to die on contact with that first full-fragrant kiss.

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[AngelxDevilxlove]

Oh god! Her voice is amazing! *_*