Philippe Jaroussky - Ch'io parta

Aria Ch'io parta (Johann Christian Bach, Temistocle)
Festival Ars Cameralis - Katowice 30.11.2009
Philippe Jaroussky & Concerto Köln
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Italian:
Chio parta?
Il commando tacendo rispetto.

Ma pensa che quando
ristretto è il torrente,
se inonda la sponda
spumoso e fremente
di mille bifolchi
la speme fra i solchi
portando sen va.
La pace se sdegni,
se guerra ti piace,
vedrai ne tuoi regni
chi adesso qui tace
tornar qual torrente
che altero e fremente
di mille bifolchi
la speme fra i solchi
portando sen va.
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P.Metastasio
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English:
I must take my leave?
Silently I obey the command.

Yet reflect, when
a torrent is held back,
once its banks burst,
foaming and frothing
it floods the furrows
dug by a thousand ploughmen,
carrying hope away with it.
If peace you scorn,
if war pleases you,
you will see the man
who now keeps silent
return to your realm
like the raging torrent
that floods the furrows
dug by a thousand ploughmen,
carrying hope away with it.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Jaroussky
• Ch'io
• parta
• bach
• Johann
• Christian
• Concerto
• Köln

[Megacle87]

The text of the aria is not by Metastasio, but by Mattia Verazi (Metastasio didn't use bad words like "bifolchi")

[Megacle87]

E parti! ma vai lontano che non ti si può sentire!!!!