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Six Madrigals     I.  II.  III.  IV.  V.  VI.
(total duration 12')
  IV. Siepe che gli orti vaghi

for SATB Voices        duration 2'

Publisher: Hinshaw

Recordings/Video

Composed for: Chanticleer
World Premiere: 1986, Herbst Theater, San Francisco

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 The Woodley Ensemble,
Frank Albinder, Conductor (377k mp3)

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Text and Translation:
 
 


Siepe, che gli orti vaghi
E me da me dividi,
Sì bella rosa in te giammai non vidi
Com'è la donna mia
Bella, amorosa e pia;
E mentr'io stendo sovra te la mano
La mi stringe pian piano.

                      Torquato Tasso (1544-1595)


0 hedge, which the lovely orchards
And me from myself divide,
I've never seen so beautiful a rose in you
As my lady is--
Beautiful, loving, and holy;
And while I extend over you my hand
She presses it, soft, softly.

                     (English translation by William Hawley)
Translation Copyright ©1986 William Hawley
All rights reserved.
 


 

  		 
   
     
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 The Woodley Ensemble,
Frank Albinder, Conductor (377k mp3)

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