Per 2 soprani, mezzosoprano e contralto
Testo: “The Tempest” di William Shakespeare
Movimenti:
- “All hail, great master hail”
- “Come unto these yellow sands”
- “Before you can say”
- “Where the bee sucks”
Durata: 15′ circa
Anno: 2002-2003
Edizione: Rai Com (RTC 1081)
Prima esecuzione: Wiesbaden, novembre 2003
Esecutori: Belcanto Ensemble, Dietburg Spohr, direttore
TESTO
All hail
All hail, great master! grave sir, hail! I come
To answer thy best pleasure; be’t to fly,
To swim, to dive into the fire, to ride
On the curl’d clouds, to thy strong bidding task
Ariel and all his quality.
Come unto these yellow sands
Come unto these yellow sands,
And then take hands:
Curtsied when you have and kiss’d
The wild waves whist:
Foot it featly here and there,
And sweet sprites bear
The burthen. Hark, hark.
[BURTHEN DISPERSEDLY] Bow-wow.
[The watch dogs bark:]
[BURTHEN DISPERSEDLY] Bow-wow.
Hark, hark! I hear
The strain of strutting chanticleer
Cry –
[BURTHEN DISPERSEDLY.] Cock a diddle dow.
[…]
Full fadom five thy father lies;
Of his bones are coral made;
Those are pearls that were his eyes:
Nothing of him that doth fade,
But doth suffer a sea-change
Into something rich and strange.
Sea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:
[BURTHEN:j Ding-dong.
Hark! now I hear them, – Ding-dong, bell.
Before you can say
Before you can say, “come” and “go”,
And breathe twice, and cry, “so, so”,
Each one, tripping on his toe,
Will be here with mop and mow.
Do you love me, master? no?
Where the bee sucks
Where the bee sucks, there I suck:
In a cowslip’s bell I lie;
There I couch when owls do cry.
On the bat’s back I do fly
After summer merrily.
Merrily, merrily shall I live now
Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.