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The Lover in Winter — Thomas Ad​è​s (1989)

from Flos Florum by Cantata Profana

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Latin:

2. Iam nocet frigus teneris,
et avis bruma laeditur,
et philomena ceteris
conqueritur,
quod illis ignis aetheris
adimitur.
3. Nunc lympha caret alveus,
nec prata virent herbida;
sol nostra fugit aureus
confinia;
est inde dies niveus,
nox frigida.
4. Modo frigescit quicquid est,
sed solus ego caleo;
immo sic mihi cordi est
quod ardeo;
hic ignis tamen virgo est,
qua langueo.
5. Nutritur ignis osculo
et leni tactu virginis;
in suo lucet oculo
lux luminis,
nec est in toto saeculo
plus numinis.


English translation:

Now the cold harms tender things, the bird is stricken by the winter, while the nightingale complains to the othersthat the warmth of heaven is taken away from them.

Now the river-bed lacks water, and no grasses are growing strongly in the meadows, for the sun has fled our boundaries of the summer sky, this is the time of snowy days, and icy nights.

Now everything which is, freezes, and only I am hot, or rather it is my heart which burns, this fire of which I sicken, is a girl.

The source of this fire was a kiss, and the soft touch of this girl, in her eyes shines a bright light,[1] nothing in the whole world could be more divine.

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from Flos Florum, released June 1, 2020

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A “crack ensemble” (New Yorker) with “a taste for the dramatic” (New York Times), breathing life into classical music by carefully and lovingly curating rarely-heard works from every chapter of music history and reveling in how it all fits together.

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