Christina Pluhar/Pozzi L'Arpeggiata - Cantata sopra il Passacaglio

Song: Cantata sopra il Passacaglio - Pozzi/Improvisation
Album: All'Improvviso

English Translation:
Thus, with blood streaming from my eyes, my strength abandons me
Mine is infinite suffering: I feel in the terror of my soul
that my first sigh will also be the last
So I beg for mercy, I confess to the amorous ardour
that my heart, alas, has felt too often.
My first sin was to worship a proud idol,
not a woman, but a hard, cruel stone.
I confess that persistently I fed that flame
and called the terrible suffering of its unrequitedness bliss.
And I turned to a face that was indeed sweet, but I hid my thoughts.
I confess that I took to despising life
and envied him who lived from day to day.
My eyes, ardent and too intent, stole the gold
of her hair and the brightness of that fair countenance. I thought her serpent's face was like the flowers of Paradise
Often fervently I desired her body, her unsilled breasts, her hands as white as milk.
Now, (Love,) I beg you piteously, that you may plead with her beloved eyes: for if she listened to you once, I could leave the purgatory of my tears, and rise to the heaven of the most blissful lovers.

The artwork in the video is mostly Oaxaca and Zapatista art and images, among others (Dewey, Hopper, etc.)

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• Cantata
• sopra
• il
• passacaglio

[Monroeville693]

I'll be posting the lyrics in parts, they don't fit. A million thanks to rv580!

[novan888]

@Monroeville693 You found them!! thank you thank you thank you for posting!

[Monroeville693]

Could you also post the original Italian lyrics please? Thank you! ^_^

[novan888]

@Monroeville693 Will certainly do..might take a little while though. I just moved and some of my things are still en route :)

[rv580]

@Monroeville693 The lyrics are on the booklet of this album.

Search "Così dal lungo sangue sparso per gli occhi fuor" (with the quotes) on google and pick one of the pdf files.

[novan888]

@rv580 thanks for the tip. I've lost my album cover actually! Maybe someone else has it and is willing to post. I just tried your suggested google search, but nothing's coming up for me...

[esiodus]

Grazie per averla pubblicata.

[Monroeville693]

Bramai sovente e ingordamente d’un sen le forme intatte

d’un petto i pomi e di una mano il latte.

Hor ti prego à pietate, che preghi con fervor le luci amate:

che s’una volta ella t’ascolta, già purgato ne’ pianti,

mi leva al ciel de’ più beati amanti.

[Monroeville693]

Confesso che ostinato nutrii nel sen l’ardore

e ‘l suo infernal dolore chiamai beato.

E à un dolce volto, solo rivolto dietro sue false scorte,

di mio proprio voler corsi alla morte.

Confesso che la vita io presi à sdegno ancor

e invidiai tal hor chi la compita.

Con gli occhi ardenti e troppo intenti ladro accorto furai

l’oro d’un crin e d’un bel volto i rai.

Credei che fusse in viso qual serpente trà fior il Paradiso.

[Monroeville693]

Così dal lungo sangue sparso per gli occhi fuor,

in lagrimoso umor son fatto esangue.

E’ ’l mio tormento sì grave: hor sento che teme l’alma mia

ch’il mio primo suspir, l’ultimo sia.

Pietà dunque, confesso quell’amoroso ardor

che commise il mio cor, ah! troppo spesso!

Prima peccai perché adorai un’idolo d’orgoglio

una donna non già, ma un crudo scoglio.

[rv580]

@novan888 ok... search ArpeggiataImprovviso.pdf on google.com

[Monroeville693]

@novan888 Ah, I see, take you time. :D

[kekkessia]

bella bella,un brodo di giuggiole sic!