Lamento Della Ninfa

Lamento Della Ninfa by thatjeffcarter was here

Lamento Della Ninfa (The Nymph’s Lament) is the 18th piece from Cluadio Monteverdi's eighth book of madrigals (Madrigali guerrieri ed amorosi, 1638). The three male voices narrate the story and offer empathy to the nymph as she laments her abandonment.

To make this remixed version of Monteveridi's work I used a couple of samples including Space Violin from the Freesound Project and my trombone.

"Amor", dicea, il ciel

mirando, il piè fermo,

"dove, dov'è la fè

ch'el traditor giurò?"

Miserella !

"Fa' che ritorni il mio

amor com'ei pur fu,

o tu m'ancidi, ch'io

non mi tormenti più."

Miserella, ah più no, no,

tanto gel soffrir non può !

"Non vo' più ch'ei sospiri

se non lontan da me,

no, no che i martiri

più non darammi affè!

Perché di lui mi struggo,

tutt'orgoglioso sta,

che si, che si se'l fuggo

ancor mi pregherà?

Se ciglio ha più sereno

colei, che'l mio non è,

già non rinchiude in seno,

Amor, sí bella fè.

Ne mai sí dolci baci

da quella bocca havrai,

ne più soavi, ah taci,

taci, che troppo il sai."

- Translated-

“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.”