Video Information

• Choir: dwsChorale
• Piece: Il bianco e dolce cigno
• Composer:  Jacques Arcadelt
• Voices:  ATTB
• Genres: A cappella, Classical, Renaissance
• Audio downloadable at
  https://davidwarinsolomons.bandcamp.com/track/il-bianco-e-dolce-cigno
  Madrigal composed by Jacques Arcad...  moreAudio downloadable at
  https://davidwarinsolomons.bandcamp.com/track/il-bianco-e-dolce-cigno
  Madrigal composed by Jacques Arcadelt
  (this may have been the inspiration for Orlando Gibbons' The Silver Swan)
  Performed by the dwsChorale
  
  Il bianco e dolce cigno
  cantando more, ed io
  piangendo giung' al fin del viver mio.
  
  The white and sweet swan
  dies singing, and I,
  weeping, reach the end of my life.
  
  
  Stran' e diversa sorte,
  ch'ei more sconsolato
  ed io moro beato.
  
  Strange and different fate,
  that he dies disconsolate
  and I die a blessed death,
  
  
  Morte che nel morire
  m'empie di gioia tutto e di desire.
  Se nel morir, altro dolor non sento,
  di mille mort' il di sarei contento.
  
  which in dying fills me
  full of joy and desire.
  If in dying, were I to feel no other pain,
  I would be content to die a thousand deaths a day.
  
  Videos taken along the Black Brook in Loughborough  less