Lamento della Ninfa (Claudio Monteverdi) | The Mancunium Consort

Monteverdi’s ’Lamento della Ninfa’ depicts the intense melancholy of a nymph, abandoned in her love. This outpouring of sorrow, sung here by Mezzo-Soprano Camilla Seale, is accompanied by a lower voice trio and continuo, performed by members of The Mancunium Consort and Theorbist Philip Turner. 🔊 - Oscar Farrell oscarfarrellmusic@ 🎥 - Eleanor Ridley Eleanorridley23@ Camilla Seale Mezzo-Soprano - Website - Instagram - Facebook - Twitter - Email - Mancuniumconsort@ Translation: - O Love - she said, Gazing at the sky, as she stood - Where’s the fidelity That the deceiver promised? - Poor her! - Make my love come back As he used to be Or kill me, so that I will not suffer anymore. - Poor her! She cannot bear All this coldness! - I don’t want him to sigh any longer But if he’s far from me. No! He will not make me suffer Anymore, I swear! He’s proud Because I languish for him. Perhaps if I fly away from him He will come to pray to me again. If her eyes are more serene Than mine, O Love, she does not hold in her heart A fidelity so pure as mine. And you will not receive from those lips Kisses as sweet as mine, Nor softer. Oh, don’t speak! Don’t speak! you know better than that! -