Sappho: Poetic Fragments I
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- Remarkably haunting rendition of DW Myatt's translation. The gentle aura, measured pace transports you to Old Greece and the oracular Mysteries. Sound effects and music (including piano and strings) are subtle, tantalising. The voice, clear, sonorous, beautiful, yearning. Sublimely evocative of female love and unadorned beauty of Sappho's Greek.
Composed and performed by Richard moult, Sister Lianna, and Wulfran Hall.
Translated by David Myatt
Artwork by Richard Moult
Fragment 41
Beautiful girls, towards you
My thoughts will never change ....
Fragment 1
Deathless Aphrodite -- Daughter of Zeus and maker of snares -
On your florid throne, hear me!
My lady, do not subdue my heart by anguish and pain
But come to me as when before
You heard my distant cry, and listened:
Leaving, with your golden chariot yoked, your father's house
To move beautiful sparrows swift with a whirling of wings
As from heaven you came to this dark earth through middle air
And so swiftly arrived.
Then you my goddess with your immortal lips smiling
Would ask what now afflicts me, why again
I am calling and what now I with my restive heart
Desired:
Whom now shall I beguile
To bring you to her love?
Who now injures you, Sappho?
For if she flees, soon shall she chase
And, rejecting gifts, soon shall she give.
If she does not love you, she shall do so soon
Whatsoever is her will.
Come to me now to end this consuming pain
Bringing what my heart desires to be brought:
Be yourself my ally in this fight.
Fragment 96
She honoured you like a goddess
And delighted in your choral dance.
Now she is pre-eminent among the ladies of Lydia
As the rose-rayed moon after the sinking of the Sun
Surpasses all the stars and spreads it's light upon the sea
And the flowers of the fields
To beautify the spreading dew, freshen roses
Soft chervil and the flowering melilot .....
Restless, she remembers gentle Atthis -
Perhaps her subtle judgement is burdened
By your [ fate ] .....
For us, it is not easy to approach
Goddesses in the beauty of their form
But you ....
D. W. Myatt translation:
classicpersuasion.org/pw/sapph...
MP3 Format: www.mediafire.com/?e1hljm0wl4h - เพลง
copy paste this 'I Beseech you Γογγυλα - Κέλομαί σε Γογγύλα'' its a poem of Sappho in the aeolic dialect of the nothern aegean islands & Lesbos of course, where she was from! The greek spoken in Athens was the attic one, which is the clasical greek language. The aeolic idioms were more archaic and they were also influenced by the east, Asia Minor & Persia. The aeolic dialect was different and more simple than the attic one, greeks understood each other they were greek, but they werent the same.
Great to find this online. I haven't heard this in a very...long... time :-) Funny how TH-cam digitally resurrects things you thought were long gone, lost to analogue. We recorded this in Newport, Wales in 1992 and I think the atmosphere is pretty good. A lot of it was completely spontaneous in terms of the sounds and accompanying music. What I would have given then for the digital tools that we've got now! Fostex 8 track, Roland D50 synth, R8 drum machine, taped sound effects. Wulfrun Hall
Hi Sam,
It's been 9 years since you left this comment, are you still around?
@@nicolasriou8718 Are you?
@@jo18533 Am I still around?
@@nicolasriou8718 Yes.
@@jo18533 well, obviously?
I have a very literal translation of Sappho's work called If Not Winter: Fragments of Winter. I find her really fascinating because in a time when her contemporaries, the learned men were all about logic and rhetoric, she was carried on a fiery passion and such immediate feeling to her work. I think that is what makes her accessible and relatable. She was celebrated and still is. :)
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Amar o locamente practicar cada beso que se guarda..
I Love this, discovering this on TH-cam coincided with my discovering her writings.
in Homero's version, Aphrodite is a daughter of Zeus and Dione. Nice music and translation! I love the pictures from ONA.
could you write english subtitles to this poem ?
@Karnamagos Lovely anyway...!
Love the singing/music in this...But am puzzeled/trnaslation by some of the words...Fragment 1...is this translated from Sappho..? as Aphrodite was not the daughter of Zeus... ancients such as her...preceded the later mythological period...as I always understood it...Lovely singing tho as i said...
This is a beautiful video...but I'm a bit unnerved by the connection between the composers and (according to Google) the Order of the Nine Angles. What's up with that?
What would you like to know?
Yes, they were all followers of the pathways of the O9A, that is correct.
@@jo18533 What do you know?
@@z0ttel89 well not strictly true. I wasn’t but was invited to collaborate on the soundscapes for this and before that a longer piece called ‘The Self Immolation Rite’. The creative person at the heart of both was someone known then as Christos Beest who was connected with ONA.
@@SamDeeksRelovedGuitars Would you mind sharing how you knew Christos Beest/Richard Moult? This is a topic I'm quite interested in :^)
Can I use this music for my project? I will give you the credits ❤️
What project?
Its in arabic
In addition, this music is horrible, it doesnt sound ancient sapphic. Its like a mixture between Iraqi and Tunisian music with modern sounds and complexes.