Romantic songs and opera arias

February 13, 2012 · hejigen

Maiden, open your window (Den danske romance – 02 Skøn jomfru, luk dit vindu op)

http://youtu.be/kCjftG5jNC8

Agnes Baltsa Stou Óthona ta hrónia

http://youtu.be/xABXdRDG-k4

Evening at the loggia (Den danske romance – 10 Aften på loggiaen)

http://youtu.be/x95dUaum4yk

Canteloube – Chants’ d’Auvergne: Baïlèro

http://youtu.be/JxspdNcRuWk

I just discovered the next one!

Tonny Landy Renaissance ( P.E. Lange Müller ). ” Serenade ”

http://youtu.be/35_vPqHqmR4

Bizet. The Pearl Fishers Duet. Jussi Bjoerling/Robert Merril

http://youtu.be/nDn_t4tEWiQ

My favorite, another serenade, from ‘Once upon a time’ , unfortunately only a choir version (Graabrødre Kammerkor and Jens Wandt – Natten er svanger)

http://youtu.be/UuYdfRR0n0A

Here’s an approximate translation of the lyrics:

The night is filled with delicate fragrance,
with buzz for you, with incense,
with tribute in pouring toasts:
it flows, where you walked during the day,
every craving you subdued became music,
unified with the night it conceives a life,
that’s carried to the baptism
in the moon’s enchanted rays.

Woman, who closes your heart
to the scent of incense, to the tones’ play,
to the fetus of embracing dreams:
the day will come, when your mind gets hot,
when the eye sinks down in delirium;
then you can’t choose, you have no will,
for supremacy bows the languorous lily,
like the rush to the flowing waters.

The heart obeys the law of love,
as the grain the scythe, as the axe a forest,
as the night the sun god’s rays:
a glance is staring at us from death,
it is conjured only by the music of life;
indulge in the tone your sacrifice with joy,
your lover will reward you with the seat in the big hall,
with the wine of the toasts of bliss.

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