Peter Lieberson's
Songs of Love and Sorrow
commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra
premiere: March 25, 2010
Gerard Finley, baritone; Boston Symphony Orchestra/Jayce Ogren, conducting
text by Pablo Neruda
from Cien sonetos de amor
(100 Love Sonnets)
Translated by Stephen Tapscott
piano/vocal score copyright © 2010 Associated Music Publishers
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Movement 5
As we close this nocturnal door, my love,
Come with me, through the shadowy places. |
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Close your dreams, Love, enter my eyes with your skies,
spread out through my blood like a wide river.
Good-bye to the cruel... |
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...daylight, which dropped
Good-bye to every ray of watches or of oranges.
O shadow, my intermittent friend, welcome! |
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O shadow, my intermittent friend, welcome!
In this ship,
or water, or death, or new life, we are united again,...
...asleep, resurrected: |
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...in the blood. I don't know who lives or dies, who rests
or wakes, but it is your heart...
...that distributes all the graces...
...of the daybreak (of the daybreak), in my breast.
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we are united again, asleep, resurrected:
we are the night's marriage in the blood. I don't know...
...who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, Good-bye, good-bye,
good-bye. |
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