Product Description
This tune provides a wonderful processional - beautiful and
elegant, thus perfect for gigging string quartets. Its stately pace
offers no technical difficulties, yet dynamics, retards, and
arco/pizz.transitions are all included to allow for a fully expressive
performance that certainly belongs in the wedding music repertoire.
Originally
scored for pit orchestra (winds, percussion, and strings), this version
of an aria from Act 1 of Dvorak's most famous opera, was written for a
stand alone string quartet, or accompanying soprano voice. Rusalka is a
water sprite, who lives in a lake, but falls in love with a human prince
and asks the moon to tell him of her love. The lyrics in English
translation are:
Moon, high and deep in the sky: Your light sees far,: You travel around the wide world,: and see into people's homes.:
Moon, stand still a while: and tell me where is my dear.: Tell him, silvery moon,: that I am embracing him.:For
at least momentarily: let him recall of dreaming of me.: Illuminate him
far away,: and tell him, tell him who is waiting for him!: If his human
soul is, in fact, dreaming of me,: may the memory awaken him!:
Moonlight, don't disappear, disappear!
This increasingly popular aria has been recorded many times, perhaps most notably by Renee Fleming and Frederica von Stade.
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