Canciones más populares de Elgan Llŷr Thomas
Créditos
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Elgan Llŷr Thomas
Tenor
Elizabeth Llewellyn
Sopran
English Northern Philharmonia
Orchester
Martyn Brabbins
Dirigent:in
Roland Wood
Bariton
David Greed
Leiter:in
KOMPOSITION UND LIEDTEXT
Sir Edward Elgar
Komponist:in
Harry Arbuthnot Acworth
Texte
Letras
Caractacus: Heap torment upon torment, woe on woe,
Let months and years of anguish’d life be mine;
Tears from these eyes Rome cannot cause to flow,
Nor bend this knee by any pow’r of thine.
We liv’d in peace, was that a crime to thee,
That thy fierce eagle stoop’d upon our nest?
A freeborn chieftain, and a people free,
We dwelt among our woodlands, and were blest.
For liberty, wives, children, hearth and shrine,
From sea to plain we fought, from plain to hill;
Now all is lost, all that was ours is thine;
My soul alone remains unshackled still.
Do then thy worst on me; my people spare
Who fought for freedom in our land at home;
Slaves they are not; be wise and teach them there
Order, and law, and liberty with Rome.
Eigen: O for the sward of Britain, and the hills!
The whisp’ring forest by our Habren’s side!
O for our Habren, and her silver rills,
Before we lost them would that we had died!
Orbin: O for mine Eigen in her woodland glade,
Light as the morning,
Spare her, Roman! Spare her, spare,
And measure tenfold torment upon me.
Written by: Harry Arbuthnot Acworth, Sir Edward Elgar