Händel: E partirai, mia vita? HWV 111a (1/2) - Pabyan

E partirai, mia vita? HWV 111a Italian cantata for soprano and basso continuo Text: Anonymous Music: Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759) Composed: Rome, 1707? ___ Video part 1 Recitativo: E partirai, mia vita? Aria: Vedrò teco ogni gioia ___ Amanda Pabyan, soprano Lorenzo Cavasanti, bass recorder Magdalena Mårding, violoncello Paola Erdas, harpsichord Recorded in November 2003 ___ Nota: I have removed the final bar of the B section of the first aria (on the picture that you can see at 5:00). It contained a low G (dotted minim) at the bass, which is redundant with the one (crotchet) that starts the A section, and is not performed in this recording; it does not appear either in the copy of a (non-autograph) manuscript that I have. ___ Recitativo E partirai, mia vita? Né in quel del tuo partir crudo momento farà l'anima mia da me partita? Ah! se un duro tormento, nel ripensarvi sol, quasi m'uccide, che farà quel dolore, ch'allora (ohimè!) per gli occhi miei con tutti gli strali suoi mi scenderà nel core? Aria Vedrò teco ogni gioia, ogni bene, da me lunge rivolgere il piè; e gl'affanni, gli strazi, le pene, tutti insieme restarsi con me. ___ Translation (by Terence Best): Recitativo And will you leave me, O my life? And will not my soul leave me in that cruel moment of your departing? Ah! if merely thinking of a harsh torment almost kills me, what will be the effect of that grief, which (alas!) will pierce my eyes and with all of its darts fall on my heart? Aria I shall see all joy, all pleasure, go with you far away from me; and grief, torture and pain remain all together with me. ___ Marc D.