Gluck Orfeo ed Euridice Che fiero Momento

Veronica Cangemi
Rene Jacobs

EURYDICE
What life is this now
which I am about to lead?
And what fatal,
terrible secret
does Orpheus hide from me?
Why does he weep and grieve?
Ah, I am as yet unaccustomed
to the sorrows
suffered by the living!
Beneath so great a blow
my constancy fails,
the light fades
before my eyes;
my breath, locked in my bosom,
becomes laboured.
I tremble, I sway
and feel my heart wildly beating
with anguish and terror.

Aria

EURYDICE
Oh bitter moment!
Oh cruel fate!
To pass from death
to such sorrow!

I was used to the peace
of a tranquil oblivion;
but in these tempests
my heart is shattered.

EURIDICE
Qual vita è questa mai,
Che a vivere incomincio! E qual arcano
M'asconde Orfeo?
Tratto m'avria dal recesso ferale
Per farsi reo del perfido abbandono?
Agli occhi miei
Si smentisce la luce. Oppresso in seno
Mi diventa affannoso
Il respirar. Tremo... vacillo... e sento
Fra l'angoscia e il terrore,
Quando all'ebbrezza, rediviva, aspiro
Da un palpito crudel vibrarmi il core.

Aria

EURIDICE
Che fiero momento!
Che barbara sorte!
Passar dalla morte
A tanto dolor!

Avvezza al contento
D'un placido oblio,
Fra queste tempeste
Si perde il mio cor.

Category:

Music

Tags:

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• fiero
• momento
• VERONICA
• CANGEMI
• Gluck
• Orfeo
• ed
• Euridice
• Rene
• Jacobs

[4everbluegirl]

Beautiful!..although the conductor made some changes I don't agree with...even so she's great

[elias12186]

Rene Jacobs is a terrible conductor!

[ua1907]

the singer is really excellent, but i don't like the conductor's work, it sounds too much like baroque music, although composer was contemporary of Mozart.

[elias12186]

The one conducted by Gardiner is my favorite. But I like this singer :)

[DidierBorzeix]

Mozart was 6 years old when orfeo ed Euridice was performed. The baroque style was at his end but the classic period arrives only twenty years after. R.Jacobs is in the right way of interpretation.

[whistlenotelover]

ABSOLUTELY! having studied extensively, it should be noted that even though Gluck was a reformist he could not completely have abated with the influence of the Baroque, if anything he was what Pergolesi was the 'end' of the Baroque, and the beginning of the Galante, Gluck could be seen to be the end at the borderline of that Rococo/Galante styled influenced approach leading into the true Classical format of Haydn, Boccherini, Mozart, etc.

[cinnabarina]

@ua1907 I like the baroque feeling in this

[Heartlessiceboy]

@ua1907 Mozart was still a little kid when Gluck performed Orfeo for first time. Baroque was still en vogue.

[tofini331]

che brava!!! 

[saturne46]

Quelle belle voix, sensible et expressive, que celle de Veronica Cangemi. Je trouve cette interprétation très réussie.