Stefano Landi - Passacaglia della vita

Stefano Landi (1587-1639) - Passacaglia della vita. Marco Beasley, I’Arpeggiata, Christina Pluhar. Marc-Antoine Charpentier Un Automne Musical a Versailles (2005) en: Oh how wrong you are to think that the years will never end. We must die. Life is a dream, that seams so sweet, but joy is all too brief. We must die. Of no avail is medicine, of no use is quinine, we cannot be cured. We must die. Worthless are lamentations, threats, bravado produced by our courage. We must die. No learned doctrine can find the words to calm this boldness We must die. There is no means to untie this knot, it is useless to flee. We must die. It is the same for everyone, a wily man cannot shield himself from the blow, We must die. Cruel Death is unfaithful to all, and shames everyone. Die we must. And yet, o madness o ravings, it seems like lying to ones