Salut Printemps - Claude Debussy
Greetings Spring, youthful season
God restores their crown to the plains.
The bubbling sap arises, breaking its bonds.
Woods and fields do blossom
An invisible realm doth murmur,
the water flows over the echoing rocks. Ringing out its thrilling song.
Solo
The broom gilds the green hillside
The hawthorne pours forth its snowy bloom.
All is freshness love and light
And song and scent pour forth from earth's fertile bosom.
Refrain
Pavane - Gabriel Fauré
It's Lindor! It's Tircis! and all our vanquishers!
It's Myrtil! It's Lydia! The queens of our hearts!
How they provoke us! How they are always so proud!
How they dare to control our destinies and our days!
Pay attention! Observe the beat!
O the mortal injury!
The cadence is slower! The fall more certain!
We shall beat back their cackles!
We will soon be their stooges!
They are so ugly! Such darling little faces!
They are so foolish! Such coquettish airs!
And it's always the same, and so it shall always be!
We love them! We hate them! We speak ill of their loves!
Farewell, Myrtil! Egle! Chloe! mocking demons!
So it is farewell and good day to the tyrants of our hearts!
And good day!
Madrigal - Gabriel Fauré
(The young people)
It’s inhuman that, without mercy,
You mock our concern,
Love! Love as you are loved!
(The young girls)
Thankless ones, who never doubt
That from dreams, your plans are hatched, Love! Love as you are loved!
(The young people)
Know, cruel beauties,
That the days of love are numbered.
Love! Love as you are loved!
(The young girls)
Know, inconstant lovers,
That true love does not last
Love! Love as you are loved!
(Chorus)
The same destiny pursues us
And our folly is the same:
Our lovers flee from us,
And we flee those who love us!
Prologue, Romeo et Juliette - Charles Gounod
Verona, of old, saw two rival families,
the Montagues and Capulets,
in their endless feudings, fatal to them both,
staining with blood the thresholds of their palaces. Like a rosy ray gleaming in a stormy sky, Juliet appeared, and Romeo loved her!
And both of them, forgetting the name that outraged them, were fired by a selfsame love!
Fatal destiny! Blind passions! These star-crossed lovers paid with their lives for the ending of the century-old hatreds that witnessed the birth of their love!
Flower Duet - Leo Delibes
Under the thick dome where the white jasmine
With the roses entwined together
On the river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning
Let us descend together!
Gently floating on its charming risings
On the river’s current
On the shining waves,
One hand reaches,
Reaches for the bank,
Where the spring sleeps,
And the bird, the bird sings.
Under the thick dome where the white jasmine
Ah! calling us
Together!
Under the thick dome where white jasmine
With the roses entwined together
On the river bank covered with flowers laughing in the morning
Let us descend together!
Calme Des Nuits - Camille Saint-Saëns
Calmness of night, coolness of evening,
vast glittering of stellar worlds,
deep silence of dark caverns:
You charm the deeper souls.
The brightness of the sun, cheerfulness
and noise please the facile minds;
the poet alone is haunted by the
love of quiet things
The seven last words of Christ on the Cross – Charles Gounod
Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.
A Chloris
If it be true, Chloris, that you love me,
(And I'm told you love me dearly),
I do not believe that even kings
Can match the happiness I know.
Even death would be powerless
To alter my fortune
With the promise of heavenly bliss!
All that they say of ambrosia
Does not stir my imagination
Like the favour of your eyes!
Chanson D’Amour - Gabriel Faure
I love your eyes, I love your brow,
O my rebel, O my wild one,
I love your eyes, I love your mouth
Where my kisses shall dissolve.
I love your voice, I love the strange
Charm of all you say,
O my rebel, O my dear angel,
My inferno and my paradise.
I love your eyes, I love your brow,
O my rebel, O my wild one,
I love your eyes, I love your mouth
Where my kisses shall dissolve.
I love all that makes you beautiful
From your feet to your hair,
O you the object of all my vows,
O my wild one, O my rebel.
I love your eyes, I love your brow,
O my rebel, O my wild one,
I love your eyes, I love your mouth
Where my kisses shall dissolve.
Ubi Caritas – Maurice Durufle
Where charity and love are, there God is.
The love of Christ has gathered us together.
Let us rejoice and be glad in him, let us fear and love the living God,
and love one other with a sincere heart.