Speak, Music!
Speak, Music! è una canzone scritta dal compositore inglese Edward Elgar nel 1901 come Op. 41, n. 2.
Storia
Le parole sono tratte da The Song dalla poesia The Professor di Arthur Christopher Benson.[1] La dedicò a 'Mrs. Edward Speyer, Ridgehurst'.[2]
Più o meno nello stesso periodo Elgar scrisse la canzone In the Dawn, come la sua Op. 41, n. 1, con parole della stessa poesia. Le due canzoni furono eseguite per la prima volta alla Queen's Hall il 26 ottobre 1901.
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«SPEAK, MUSIC
Speak, speak, music, and bring to me
Fancies too fleet for me,
Sweetness too sweet for me,
Wake, wake, voices, and sing to me,
- Sing to me tenderly; bid me rest.
Rest, Rest! ah, I am fain of it!
Die, Hope! small was my gain of it!
- Song, [song] take thy parable,
- Whisper, whisper that all is well,
Say, say that there tarrieth
Something, something more true than death.
- Waiting to smile for me; bright and blest.
Thrill, thrill, string: echo and play for me
All, all that the poet, the priest cannot say for me;
Soar, voice, soar, heavenwards, and pray for me,
- Wondering, wandering; bid me rest.»
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Note
- ^ A. C. Benson, "The Professor and Other Poems", London and New York, John Lane, 1900
- ^ Mrs. Edward Speyer was Antonia Kufferath, the Belgian-born soprano, daughter of Alice Elgar's old piano teacher Ferdinand Kufferath and wife of Elgar's friend the wealthy banker Edward Speyer. 'Ridgehurst' was their home at Shenley, Hertfordshire. Not to be confused with Sir Edgar Speyer and Lady Speyer (the latter a professional violinist Leonora von Stosch)
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