Arcadelt - Il bianco e dolce cigno

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Uploaded by on Aug 18, 2008

Jacques Arcadelt (?1505-1568)
Primo libro dei madrigali (1538/39)

Il bianco e dolce cigno 4 v.

Il bianco e dolce cigno
cantando more, ed io
piangendo giung' al fin del viver mio.
Stran' e diversa sorte,
ch'ei more sconsolato
ed io moro beato.
Morte che nel morire
m'empie di gioia tutto e di desire.
Se nel morir, altro dolor non sento,
di mille mort' il di sarei contento.


The Consort of Musicke

Emma Kirkby soprano
Evelyn Tubb soprano
Mary Nichols alto
Angus Smith tenor
Rufus Muller tenor
Alan Ewing bass

Dir. Anthony Rooley


Recording:
September 1987


Picture:
Bernardino Palazzi (1907-1986)
Riposo estivo, 1961

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  • Much more elegant than today's songs about sex!

  • Peccato per lorripilante pronunzia.

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  • @BigJonBone yes, although this is making light of death. Pretty much saying, if it feels this good to die, then I want to die this way a thousand times a day

  • @BigJonBone

    maybe if your over the age of 60, gramps.

  • Amazing Arcadelt!

  • @BigJonBone 'I wanna take a ride on your disco stick' Thank you, Lady Gaga!

  • @BigJonBone You are aware that the text is actually about sex right? The little death - sexual climax.

  • yeah this song is a madrigal genre from the renaissance. most madrigals...including this one...have major sexual connotation! who would've guessed..

  • Translation for song: The white and sweet swan dies singing. And I, weeping, come to the end of my life. Strange and different fate, that it dies disconsolate, and I die Happy- a death that in dying fills me fully with joy and desire. If when i die no other pain i feel, with a thousand deaths a day i would be content. Yep pretty sexy lyrics hahaha
  • My choir is singing this song :)

  • @As1anBeasTagE If you were to translate this song, you would find that it is about sex.

  • Pleased to die a thousand times a- OH! NOW I get it!

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