Heavenly music. And so appropriate that it be sung by -- it would seem -- high school students hanging out together. That's the age when you feel joy and pain so clearly because it's all new and also try to hide your sentiments lest your classmates make fun of you.
Amazing how music and lyrics from centuries ago can find their way to my 21th century heart. I love this seemingly laid back performance. Very well done.
This is so beautiful. More beautiful than I can put into words. Thank you so much! I love the staging as well as the gorgeous singing and accompaniment. As a teacher I will show it to my secondary school English students of poetry. I have no doubt it will touch a chord and open doors to a wonderful new world for them. Again, thank you!
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@Bjorn Wilder I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and Im in the hacking process atm. Takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
The finest interpetation of this beautiful song I've heard was in a BBC broadcast recital by Britten and Pears. Feeling with restraint. Discretion, and above all, decorum, that hallmark of 17thC art. A performance never equalled.
Thanks Josef! it is a very moving piece! This was back in days, 2007, when we were all young(er). This was also my bachelor exam and the birth of OPERA2DAY. So, it is a performance that is still very dear to me. In that context, I really appreciate your comment. Stay well!
This is the best performance of this song on the web. Pity the recording quality is not the best. Even so, the combination of passion and restraint is memorable.
1 If love's a sweet passion why does it torment? If a bitter, oh tell me, whence comes my content? Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain, or grieve at my fate, when I know it's in vain? Yet so pleasing the pain is so soft as the dart, That at once it both wounds me and tickles my heart 2 I press her hand gently, look languishing down, and by passionate silence I make my love known. But oh! How I'm blest when so kind she does prove, by some willing mistake to discover her love. When in striving to hide, she reveals her flame, and in our eyes tell each other what neither dares name.
oh this is wonderful! I shall use this when I teach Gay's Beggar's Opera--the film version--and play the two pieces side by side, Purcell's and then Gay's take-off with Polly's lament a not-really parody of this! what fun--
Where can I listen to the 2nd part? And the others? I'd like to have the whole entertainment. This is a great interpretation and adaptation, Purcell would have been satisfied.
I don't like very much this theatral version, but the song is Wonderful, with a text quite modern at all. It is strange: the various version I've listened to, always differs in the repetition of the verses shared by 'solos' and 'tutti'. The one that I prefere, complete, is the long, everlasting, of sir Elliot Gardiner.
"Passion" in the 17th Century always needs to be enhanced by restraint. Giving it all right from the start is bad taste. Showing some shyness reinforces the effect.
Amazing how music and lyrics from centuries ago can find their way to my 21th century heart. I love this seemingly laid back performance. Very well done.
Sheer beauty. This music makes me suffer from old loves, but "I suffer with pleasure".
Heavenly music. And so appropriate that it be sung by -- it would seem -- high school students hanging out together. That's the age when you feel joy and pain so clearly because it's all new and also try to hide your sentiments lest your classmates make fun of you.
Amazing how music and lyrics from centuries ago can find their way to my 21th century heart. I love this seemingly laid back performance. Very well done.
The soloist is Zsuzsi Tóth, of Hungarian origin.
This is so beautiful. More beautiful than I can put into words. Thank you so much! I love the staging as well as the gorgeous singing and accompaniment. As a teacher I will show it to my secondary school English students of poetry. I have no doubt it will touch a chord and open doors to a wonderful new world for them. Again, thank you!
you probably dont care at all but does someone know of a trick to log back into an Instagram account??
I somehow forgot my password. I appreciate any help you can offer me!
@Reid Cain instablaster :)
@Bjorn Wilder I really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and Im in the hacking process atm.
Takes quite some time so I will reply here later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@Bjorn Wilder It did the trick and I now got access to my account again. I am so happy:D
Thank you so much, you saved my account !
@Reid Cain You are welcome :)
Innovative performance!
This looks like a wonderful production. I wish I'd been able to see it, but thanks for posting it here.
Good performance of great music.
The finest interpetation of this beautiful song I've heard was in a BBC broadcast recital by Britten and Pears. Feeling with restraint. Discretion, and above all, decorum, that hallmark of 17thC art. A performance never equalled.
Superb! And very enjoyable to watch and listen THank you!
nous avons joué "The Fairy Queen" .
c'est un de mes passages préférés !
And young opera star Krsitina Bitenc
I really love this version Hernan. Wish I could have seen it live. Josef x
Thanks Josef! it is a very moving piece! This was back in days, 2007, when we were all young(er). This was also my bachelor exam and the birth of OPERA2DAY. So, it is a performance that is still very dear to me. In that context, I really appreciate your comment. Stay well!
che musica bella ...semplicemente..
This is the best performance of this song on the web. Pity the recording quality is not the best. Even so, the combination of passion and restraint is memorable.
1 If love's a sweet passion why does it torment?
If a bitter, oh tell me, whence comes my content?
Since I suffer with pleasure, why should I complain,
or grieve at my fate, when I know it's in vain?
Yet so pleasing the pain is so soft as the dart,
That at once it both wounds me and tickles my heart
2 I press her hand gently, look languishing down,
and by passionate silence I make my love known.
But oh! How I'm blest when so kind she does prove,
by some willing mistake to discover her love.
When in striving to hide, she reveals her flame,
and in our eyes tell each other what neither dares name.
Amazing!!!
molto ben suonato..
oh this is wonderful! I shall use this when I teach Gay's Beggar's Opera--the film version--and play the two pieces side by side, Purcell's and then Gay's take-off with Polly's lament a not-really parody of this! what fun--
Where can I listen to the 2nd part? And the others? I'd like to have the whole entertainment. This is a great interpretation and adaptation, Purcell would have been satisfied.
Классно поют и играют.
Is there anyone one can get the whole DVD?
Is there someplace one ben find the complete performance?
Dear @BethDiane, thanks for your comment, please write an e-mail to info@opera2day.nl and I am sure we can send a link or a hard copy of the DVD.
@manrico58 "fat and homely"? Do you live inside a tabloid?
@prionse they still have another brother he became very famous. as a tenor.
Pleasant... Listen the song Love hurt by Emmylou Harris.. Same thing 300 years after...
Who Jussi Lehtipuu for Topi Lehtipuu?
MrAlex84006 A brother, I believe.
@manrico58 She may be a bit plump, but she's not fat -- and she's not homely.
I don't like very much this theatral version, but the song is Wonderful, with a text quite modern at all. It is strange: the various version I've listened to, always differs in the repetition of the verses shared by 'solos' and 'tutti'. The one that I prefere, complete, is the long, everlasting, of sir Elliot Gardiner.
"Passion" in the 17th Century always needs to be enhanced by restraint. Giving it all right from the start is bad taste. Showing some shyness reinforces the effect.
El aria, bien. El conjunto del montaje, lamentable...
Amazing how music and lyrics from centuries ago can find their way to my 21th century heart. I love this seemingly laid back performance. Very well done.