Alfred Deller canta "Flow my tears"

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Alfred Deller sings "Flow my tears" (by John Dowland).



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Flow my teares fall from your springs,
Exilde for ever: Let me morne
Where nights black bird hir sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorne.

Downe vaine lights shine you no more,
No nights are dark enough for those
That in dispaire their last fortunes deplore,
Light doth but shame disclose.

Never may my woes be relieved,
Since pittie is fled,
And teares, and sighes, and grones
My wearie days of all joyes have deprived.

From the highest spire of contentment,
My fortune is throwne,
And feare, and griefe, and paine
For my deserts, are my hopes since hope is gone.

Hark you shadowes that in darnesse dwell,
Learn to contemne light,
Happy that in hell
Feele not the worlds despite.

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Fluyan mis lágrimas, caigan desde sus manantiales..
Exiliado para siempre, dejadme llorar.
Permitidme que viva olvidado
donde el pájaro negro de la noche canta su tristeza.

¡Apagaos, oh vanas luces, no brilléis más!
No hay noche lo bastante oscura para aquellos
que desesperadamente deploran sus fortunas perdidas.
La luz no revela sino la vergüenza.

Nunca sean mis penas aliviadas,
puesto que la piedad ha huido;
y las lágrimas, suspiros y gemidos han privado
de toda alegría a mis cansados días.

Desde la más alta cúpula del contento
ha sido arrojada mi fortuna,
y el temor, y la pena, y el dolor
por mis pérdidas, son mis esperanzas,
pues la esperanza partió.

¡Oíd!, vosotras, sombras que en la oscuridad moráis,
aprended a despreciar la luz.
Felices, felices, quienes en el infierno
no sienten el desprecio del mundo.

(Muchas gracias a mgg80, mi querido MARCOS,
por tu ayuda en la traducción, ahora ya perfecta.
Y por descubrir y traducir ese cuarto verso.)

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Category:

Music

Tags:

• Alfred
• Deller
• Countertenor
• Contratenor
• Flow
• My
• Tears
• Dowland

[gifu1960]

I had always preferred Andreas Scholl's performance of this piece, but now this is my favorite interpretation. I like the speed of this piece and how lightly he phrases each line. Effortlessly. When he sings "And teares, and sighes, and grones" - it's magnificent beyonde wordes.

[lasultanica]

my favorite is also Alfred's interpretation.

HE IS SO GREAT !!

thank you : )

[mrparts]

en el tercer verso, la traduccion que colocaste no refleja exactamente el significado de la frase. "light doth but shame disclose". la luz solo revelar nuestra verguenza/humillaciones a otros ( que es el sentido del verso), no que la nuestra verguenza es la luz.

[lasultanica]

gracias : )

[beteltree]

Marvelous! Best rendition I've come across so far. Alfred Deller is the patron god of countertenors as far as I'm concerned. Does anyone know who the lutenist is?

[skubdeliou]

Excellent and thank you for the lyrics Lasultanica

[purcell30x]

Deller's voice is heavenly, pure and unforced, so many counter tenors when singing renaisance period songs sing too loudly, almost sounding operatic.

when these songs would have been performed for very small gatherings. ken

[rubicita8815]

frasea la notas y los matices con la interpretacion correcta , alfred deller el mejor para interpretar musica renacentista

[NikPPD]

Stunning!!!

[theirritatedferret]

i love the ornaments he puts in in the last repeat!

[TottyHensh61]

Alfred Deller recorded this song three times, to my knowledge. First, in 1953 with Desmond Dupre, lute. Then, 1969/70, again with Dupre. This version is the final one from 1977, with Robert Spenser, lute. In some ways it's the best.

[angietihi]

@DRWRBF I was always a Deller fan but I agree with you, the Scholl version is superb. It's not that Deller was bad, he was wonderful but for this song.... All are beautiful and I have never particularly liked Dowland

[studdingsails]

Sublime.

[bateriadepetaluma]

thank you for posting this. exquisite.

[Almuric7]

I think Alfred Deller was the greatest, I think him very, very rare an artist.