“Lagrime mie” - Barbara Strozzi
Crossley Hawn, soprano
Paula Maust, harpsichord
Recorded with Musica Spira
Translation:
My tears, why do you hold back?
Why do you not let burst forth the fierce pain
that takes my breath and oppresses my heart?
Lidia, whom I so much adore,
Because she looked on me with a pitiable glance
is imprisoned by her strict father.
Between two walls
the beautiful innocent one is confined,
where the sun’s ray can't reach her;
and what grieves me most,
and adds torment and pain to my agony,
is that my beloved
suffers on my account.
And you, sorrowful eyes, you don't cry?
My tears, why do you hold back?
Alas, I yearn for Lidia,
my idol whom I so much adore;
she's captured in hard marble,
she for whom I sigh and yet do not die.
Because I welcome death,
now that I'm deprived of hope;
Ah, take away my life,
I pray to you, my bitter pain.
But well I realize that to torment me
even more
Fate denies me even death.
Since it's true, oh God,
that vicious Destiny
thirsts only for my wailing,
My tears, why do you hold back?
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