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Веш нихдн ей минутн ы грозы , Spring thunderstorms are brief,
Veshnikh dnei minutny grozy
Воздух чист, свежей листы … The air is clean, the leaves fresh...
Vozkukh chist, svezhei listy.
И роняю ттихо слёзы And quiet tears fall
I roniaiut tikho slëzy
Аром атн ыецветы . From the fragrant flowers.
Aromatnye tsvety.
Manuel García
Poem by Louis Pomey (?)
‘Celos’ (Jealousy) [CD 1 Track 4]
Arr. Pauline Viardot, dedicated to George Sand
ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI
VIARDOT’S FATHER, whose full name was Manuel del Populo Vicente
Rodríguez García, was born in Seville in 1775. During the first half of his
remarkable career, he was equally renowned as a composer and singer. He
wrote stage works in Spanish, Italian and French. His songs continued to be
sung by both his daughters, indeed both of them would insert his aria ‘Yo que
soy contrabandista’ from El poeta calculista in the lesson scene in Act 2 of
Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia. In 1830 he published a collection of Spanish
songs, and this arrangement by Pauline of one of his songs in the Andalusian
manner is her own tribute to the genius of her father. ‘He believed neither in
God nor in the Devil,’ she said. ‘His own religion was life, with all its most
ardent passions, it was art, it was love!’
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