John Wilbye, Draw On Sweet Night, I Fagiolini & Robert Hollingworth

L’ensemble britannique I Fagiolini met de côté son bien-aimé Monteverdi pour découvrir son propre patrimoine national : le meilleur des madrigaux classiques de l’âge d’or de John Wilbye. Bien que son œuvre ait pu être petite, à maintes reprises, dans ses camées exquises, Wilbye livre ce qui pourrait être l’expérience madrigalesque ultime.

John Wilbye (1574-1638)

Draw On Sweet Night

 Draw on, sweet night

Weep, O mine eyes

Adieu, sweet Amaryllis

Sweet honey-sucking bees / Yet, sweet, take heed

Thou art but young

Cruel, behold my heavy ending

I live, and yet methinks / There is a jewel

I love, alas! yet am not loved

Oft have I vowed

Down in a valley / Hard destinies

When shall my wretched life

O what shall I do?

Love not me for comely grace

Happy, O happy he

There where I saw

Lady, your words do spite me

O wretched man

Ye restless thoughts

Lady, when I behold

Thus saith my Cloris bright

Weep, weep, mine eyes

Flora gave me fairest flowers

All pleasure is of this condition

Of joys and pleasing pains / My throat is sore

Where most my thoughts / Despiteful thus