Arnold Schönberg Chor feat. Barbara Bonney, Concentus Musicus Wien & Nikolaus Harnoncourt -
Purcell : The Fairy Queen
The Fairy Queen : Act 3 "If Love's a Sweet Passion" [Dryad, Chorus]
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
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.
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
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.
Credits
Writer(s): Henry Purcell
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Other Album Tracks
- The Fairy Queen : Prelude to Act 1
- The Fairy Queen : Air
- The Fairy Queen : Overture to Act 1
- The Fairy Queen : Act 1 "Come, Let Us Leave the Town" [Soprano, Bass]
- The Fairy Queen : Act 1 "Scene of the Drunken Poet" [First Fairy, Second Fairy,
- The Fairy Queen : Act 1 First Act Tune – Jig
- The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Come All Ye Songsters of the Sky" [Tenor]
- The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "May the God of Wit Inspire" [Counter-Tenor, Tenor, Bass]
- The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Now Join Your Warbling Voices All" [Chorus]
- The Fairy Queen : Act 2 "Now Join Your Warbling Voices All" [Chorus]
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