Lasciatemi morire (Claudio Monteverdi)

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SSATB version

CPDL #11964: 

Editor: Alessandro Magagnin (submitted 2006-07-14).   Score information: A4, 28 pages, 678 kbytes   Copyright: CPDL

Edition notes: Complete work, 4 movements.

CPDL #11811:   Finale 2006

Editor: Mark Wenzel (submitted 2006-08-05).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 130 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Set in a minor. Starting with a'. Based on CPDL #11910 by Pierre Gouin. Minor changes to that version.

CPDL #11910:  PDF, MIDI and Finale 2005 files available.

Editor: Pierre Gouin (submitted 2006-06-15).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 79 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Set in c minor.

Soprano Solo version

CPDL #17699:     

Contributor: David Newman (submitted 2008-07-28).   Score information: Letter, 1 page, 56 kB   Copyright: Public Domain

Edition notes: Soprano Solo version - Cross posting by Art Song Central - Lyrics in English and Italian - English lyrics by Dr. Theodore Baker - Editions in F Minor, D Minor and C Minor.

CPDL #11528: 

Editor: Gordon J. Callon (submitted 2006-04-22).   Score information: 21.9 x 33.6 cm, 5 pages, 180 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: Soprano solo aria with basso continuo. First part, Lasciatemi morire; second part, O Teseo, Teseo mio; third part, Dove, dove è la fede; fourth part, Ahi, ch'ei non pur risponde.

• CPDL #5650:

Editor: Erik Hellerstedt (submitted 2003-10-10).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 144 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: First part only, voicing SSATB.

• CPDL #802:

Editor: Geraldo Wehmhoff (submitted 2000-04-18).   Score information: A4, 1 page, 84 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: First part only, soprano solo aria.

• CPDL #262: Finale 1998

Editor: Carles Gumí (submitted 1999-10-15).   Score information: Letter, 2 pages, 46 kB   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: First part only; voicing SMezATB.

Arrangements

• CPDL #6452:

Editor: Eva Toller (submitted 2004-01-12).   Score information: A4, 2 pages, 118 kbytes   Copyright: Personal

Edition notes: First part only, arranged for SSAA by Eva Toller, midi files available for each part here.

General Information

Title: Lasciatemi morire
Composer: Claudio Monteverdi
Lyricist: Ottavio Rinuccini (1562-1621)

Number of voices: 1 solo or 4, 5vv   Voicings: SSATB, Solo Soprano and SSAA (arrangement)
Genre: Secular, Opera aria, Madrigal

Language: Italian
Instruments: Basso continuoand Piano

Published: First published in Il sesto libro de madrigali a cinque voci, Venice, 1614, arranged for five voices; subsequently re-published (in essentially its original form) as a soprano solo with continuo accompaniment, Venice, 1623.

Description: Lasciatemi morire is the only surviving music from Monteverdi's lost opera, L'Arianna, composed and produced in Mantua in 1608.This piece is also known as Lamento D'Arianna, or Arianna's Lament.

External websites:

• Entry at Wikipedia for this composer.
• Entry at "Art Song Central" for this song.
• Entry at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
• English translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
• Portuguese translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
• German translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
• French translation at the "Lied and Art Song Texts Page".
• Performance of the Lamento by the dwsChorale with words and translation by Francesco Campelli - full version

Original text and translations

Italian text Lasciatemi morire! E chi volete voi che mi conforte in così dura sorte, in così gran martire? Lasciatemi morire! O Teseo, o Teseo mio, sì che mio ti vo’ dir, chè mio pur sei, benché t’involi, ahi crudo! a gli occhi miei. Volgiti, Teseo mio, volgiti, Teseo, o Dio! Volgiti indietro a rimirar colei che lasciato ha per te la patria e il regno, e’n queste arene ancora, cibo di fere dispietate e crude, lascierà l’ossa ignude. O Teseo, o Teseo mio, se tu sapessi, o Dio! Se tu sapessi, ohimè!, come s’affanna la povera Arianna, forsi forsi pentito rivolgeresti ancor la prora al lito. Ma, con l’aure serene tu te ne vai felice, et io qui piango. A te prepara Atene liete pompe superbe, et io rimango cibo di fere in solitarie arene. Te l’uno e l’altro tuo vecchio parente stringeran lieti, et io più non vedrovi, o madre, o padre mio! Dove, dove è la fede, che tanto mi giuravi? Così ne l’alta sede tu mi ripon de gli avi? Son queste le corone onde m’adorni il crine? Questi gli scettri sono, queste le gemme e gl’ori? Lasciarmi in abbondono a fera che mi strazi e mi divori? Ah Teseo, a Teseo mio, lascierai tu morire, in van piangendo, in van gridando aita, la misera Arianna che a te fidossi e ti diè gloria e vita? Ahi, che non pur risponde! Ahi, che più d’aspe è sordo a’miei lamenti! O nembi, o turbi, o venti, sommergetelo voi dentr’a quell’onde! Correte, orche e balene, e delle membra immonde empiete le voragini profonde! Che parlo, ahi! Che vaneggio? Misera, ohimè! Che chieggio? O Teseo, o Teseo mio, non son, non son quell’io, non son quell’io che i feri detti sciolse: Parlò l’affanno mio, parlò il dolore; Parlò la lingua sì, ma non già ‘l core.

English translation Let me die, and who do you think can comfort me in such harsh fate, in such great suffering? Let me die. Oh Theseus, my Theseus I still want to call you mine, cruel one, even though you flee from my eyes. Turn back, my Theseus, turn back Theseus, oh God! Turn back to gaze on her who abandoned her country and kingdom just for you, and who will leave her bare bones on these sands as food for fierce and merciless animals. Oh, Theseus, if you only knew, oh god! Alas, if you only knew the terrible fear poor Ariadne is suffering, perhaps you would relent and point your prow back to the shore. But, you leave with joy on gentle breezes, while I lament here. Athens is preparing joyful proud ceremonies for you, and I remain food for beasts on these lonely sands. You will joyfully embrace Your happy aged parents but, oh mother, oh father, I will never see you again. Where is the faithfulness that you swore to me so much? Is this how you set me on the high throne of your ancestors? Are these the crowns with which you adorn my locks? Are these the sceptres, the jewels and the gold: to leave me, abandonned for the wild beast to tear and devour? Ah, my Theseus, will you leave to die, weeping and calling in vain for help, wretched Ariadne, who trusted you and gave you glory and saved your very life? Alas, he doesn't even answer! Alas, he is deafer than a snake to my cries! Oh clouds, storms, winds! bury him beneath those waves! Hurry, you whales and sea monsters, and fill your deep whirlpools with his filthy limbs! But What am I saying? Why do I rage so? Alas, wretch that I am, what am I asking for? Oh, my Theseus, it is not I, no, I am not the one who uttered those terrible words; It was my beathless fear and pain that spoke; my tongue may have spoken, but not my heart.