HandelCantatas's video: H ndel: Delirio amoroso HWV 99 - 4 5 - Dessay Haim

Delirio amoroso, HWV 99 (also known as Da quel giorno fatale) Italian cantata for soprano with instruments and basso continuo Text: Cardinal Benedetto Pamphilj Music: Georg Friedrich Händel Completed score: Rome, on or before January 14, 1707 First performance: at the Pamphilj palace in May 1707 ___ Video part 1: - Introduzione Video part 2: - Recitativo: Da quel giorno fatale - Aria: Un pensiero voli in ciel Video part 3: - Recitativo: Ma fermati, pensier - Aria: Per te lasciai la luce Video part 4: - Recitativo: Non ti bastava, ingrato - Aria: Lascia omai le brune vele - Recitativo: Ma siamo giunti in Lete - Entrée Video part 5: - Minuet - Aria: In queste amene piagge serene - Recitativo: Sì, disse Clori - Minuet (reprise) ___ In this video: Natalie Dessay, soprano Héloïse Gaillard, recorder Le Concert d'Astrée, conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm Recorded in 2005 ___ Delirio amoroso was composed in 1707 for Handel's patron Benedetto Pamphilj, who also wrote the libretto texts. This extensive cantata is an evocation of hallucinatory madness in which Clori imagines she enters the realm of the dead to conduct her disdaining lover to the Elysian fields. ___ Recitativo Non ti bastava, ingrato, d'avermi in vita lacerato il core? Dopo l'ultimo fato, siegui ad esser per me furia d'amore; anzi ti prendi a scherno, ch'io venga teco ad abitar l'inferno. Ma pietà per rigore ti renderò. Su vieni al dolce oblio di Lete; indi daranno pace gli Elisi, al già sofferto affanno. Aria Lascia omai le brune vele, negro pin di Flegetonte. Io farò che un zeffiretto, per diletto, spiri intorno a te fedele; e che mova i bianchi lini, pellegrini, in Acheronte. Recitativo Ma siamo giunti in Lete. Odi il suono soave degli Elisi beati. ___ Translation (by Gwyn Morris): Recitativo Wasn't it enough for you, ungrateful one, to break my heart while you lived? After your death, you still inflict a frenzy of love on me; rather, you treat with scorn the fact that I've come to live with you in Hell. But I'll reward your cruelty with compassion. Come now to the sweet forgetfulness of Lethe; Then the Elysian fields will give respite to our past suffering. Aria Leave now the dark brown sails, black boat of the fiery river of Hades, Phlegethon. I will see that a light breeze, for your delight, breathes constantly around you; and that it moves the white canvas, on its way, along the river Acheron. Recitativo But we have reached the river Lethe. Hear the sweet sound of the blessed in Elysium. ___ Eser.