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Tintarella di luna: cold songs for countertenor and piano

Song Cycle by Olga Neuwirth (b. 1968)

1. Mitte der Nächte, vergeht die Stunde Sung Text

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Mitte der Nächte, vergeht die Stunde
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  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, copyright ©

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  • a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE), no title
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Dir gegenübersitzen darf
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  • by Anonymous / Unidentified Author, copyright ©

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  • a text in Aeolic Greek by Sappho (flourished c610-c580 BCE)
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2. Qual meraviglia è, se prossim’al foco Sung Text

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  Qual meraviglia è, se prossim’al foco
mi strussi e arsi, se or ch’egli è spento
di fuor, m’affligge e mi consuma drento,
e ’n cener mi riduce a poco a poco?
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Text Authorship:

  • by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), appears in Rime, no. 266

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Che gli occhi al suol tuttora intenti e fissi
Io mirava colei ch'a questo core
Primiera il varco ed innocente aprissi.

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Al cielo, a voi, gentili anime, io giuro
Che voglia non m'entrò bassa nel petto,
Ch'arsi di foco intaminato e puro.
ma la speme io certo dirò, la speme...

Text Authorship:

  • by Giacomo Leopardi (1798 - 1837), "Il primo amore"

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3. Fuggite, amanti Amor
 (Sung text)

Language: Italian (Italiano) 
  Fuggite, amanti, Amor, fuggite ’l foco;
l’incendio è aspro e la piaga è mortale,
c’oltr’a l’impeto primo più non vale
né forza né ragion né mutar loco.
  Fuggite, or che l’esemplo non è poco
d’un fiero braccio e d’un acuto strale;
leggete in me, qual sarà ’l vostro male,
qual sarà l’impio e dispietato gioco.
 ... 

Text Authorship:

  • by Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564), no title, appears in Rime, no. 27

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Total word count: 217
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