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STYLEMSSeptember 2008 Challenge Classics
Che ti çova nasconder - Anonymous - - lyrics
Senti tù d'amor (on lute) - Donato da Firenze
Benchè partito da te - don Paolo da Firenze - - lyrics
Amor, tu solo'l sai - don Paolo da Firenze - - lyrics
Gautier d'Épinal. REMEMBRANCE": Challenge Classics, January 2008
Aymanz fins et verais (instr.)- extract
Quand je voi l erbe menue - extract - - lyrics
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"TOUZ ESFORCIEZ" - Trouvères en Lorraine: Pierre Verany - April 2004
Jacque de CYSOING. Chanson (instrumental)
Jeannot de l'ESCUREL."Bien se peust apercevoir" - lyrics
"RUSSIAN BAROQUE MUSIC": Pierre Verany - April 2002
Songs from the epoch of Peter the Great
1. "Constant, marvellous, infinite,..God" - lyrics
2. "By your great and touching beauty..." - lyrics
3. "Hypocritical world, full of woes!" - lyrics
4. After Ps. 126 (125) - lyrics
Lyrics
live recording
Che ti çova
Why would you wish to hide your lovely face?
No one can tell how much a gem is worth,
o woman, if it is hidden from view;
but when it is on view, it is much praised.
The more you hide, the stronger my desire
goads me: do not, therefore, prolong my suffering,
since love has placed my heart wholly in your service.
Benché partito da te
Although I am bodily parted from you
my heart sighs and weeps night and day.
……………
I don't see with my mind's eye any woman
who was born with such a noble aspect.
Amor tu solo'l sai
O Love, you only know
the one who holds my heart
so that I often weep
all by myself over my endless woes.
Only those who experience it know how
one's sorrow stays inside,
if it's not shared with someone else; like fire
which, burning and not finding a way through,
burns much more than it would
if its power could have a normal outlet.
The fire is such that I
will no longer feel good,
'cause one who bears so much
can do it no longer, and you will see him die.
Quand je voi l'erbe
When I see the fine grass
sprouting at the start of summer,
When every creature changes and grows
into greater beauty,
When my lady
then desires me to sing,
my joy increases,
because it is she who cammands it...
Bien se peust apersevoir
Well can my sweet
and noble lady see
that I love her. She does see
But she will not show it.
Or is it the contrary?
For I dare not speak of my woes,
For fear of vexing her.
1. Constant, marvellous, infinite, praiseworthy and most glorious,
God, thou alone art everlasting, God of yesterday and of today,
Inscrutable, steadifast, more perfect than perfection,..
Who but Thou would have armed me so wondrously?
Who would have taught me to fight using sling rather than bow?...
2. By your great and touching beauty I am beguiled, vanquished;
Love me, I beg you. I love you, my love, I am melting with love...
In your bright eyes, fine words, sweet smile and penetrating gaze
There is neither kindness nor kindliness...
3. Hypocritical world, full of woes!
How inconstant you are, how imperfect!
How evil are your delights, how deplorable your joys and laughter!
How calamitous your honors, your fortunes.
Wind, smoke, nothing, vicissitudes.
The flowers blooms for an instant, then fades;
He who seats enthroned today, tomorrow is deposed.
... We wretched mortals should have but one concern:
the Judge who will come on that terrible day
and he will ask us
why we have waisted our years in such vain activities.
4. When the Lord turned again
The captivity from Zion, we were filled with rejoicing,
Our mouths wass filled with laughter and our lips with singing
And every tong proclaimed:
The Lord God hath done great things for them!
Akira Tachikawa sings