Listen to Fair If You Expect Admiring by Sir Peter Pears & Julian Bream

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Sir Peter Pears & Julian Bream

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Listen to The Very Best of Elizabethan Lute Songs by Sir Peter Pears & Julian Bream

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Listen to Turandot / Act 2: "Un giuramento atroce mi costringe" by Sir Peter Pears, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Luciano Pavarotti & London Philharmonic Orchestra, see lyrics, music video & more!

Turandot / Act 2: "Un giuramento atroce mi costringe"Sir Peter Pears, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Luciano Pavarotti & London Philharmonic Orchestra

Listen to Turandot / Act 2: "Gloria, gloria, o vincitore" by Dame Joan Sutherland, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Sir Peter Pears, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Luciano Pavarotti, see lyrics, music video & more!

Turandot / Act 2: "Gloria, gloria, o vincitore"Dame Joan Sutherland, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Sir Peter Pears, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Luciano Pavarotti

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Turandot / Act 2: "Straniero, ascolta"Dame Joan Sutherland, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Luciano Pavarotti, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Peter Pears & Montserrat Caballé

Listen to Turandot / Act 2: "Tre enigmi m'hai proposto" by Luciano Pavarotti, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Sir Peter Pears & London Philharmonic Orchestra, see lyrics, music video & more!

Turandot / Act 2: "Tre enigmi m'hai proposto"Luciano Pavarotti, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Sir Peter Pears & London Philharmonic Orchestra

Listen to Turandot, Act II, Scene 2, "Un giuramento atroce mi costringe" by Sir Peter Pears, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Luciano Pavarotti & London Philharmonic Orchestra, see lyrics, music video & more!

Turandot, Act II, Scene 2, "Un giuramento atroce mi costringe"Sir Peter Pears, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Luciano Pavarotti & London Philharmonic Orchestra

Listen to Turandot, Act II, Scene 2, "Tre enigmi m'hai proposto" by Luciano Pavarotti, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Sir Peter Pears & London Philharmonic Orchestra, see lyrics, music video & more!

Turandot, Act II, Scene 2, "Tre enigmi m'hai proposto"Luciano Pavarotti, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Sir Peter Pears & London Philharmonic Orchestra

Listen to Turandot, Act II, Scene 2, "Gloria, gloria, o vincitore" by Dame Joan Sutherland, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Sir Peter Pears, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Luciano Pavarotti, see lyrics, music video & more!

Turandot, Act II, Scene 2, "Gloria, gloria, o vincitore"Dame Joan Sutherland, Zubin Mehta, John Alldis Choir, Sir Peter Pears, London Philharmonic Orchestra & Luciano Pavarotti

Listen to Spring Symphony, Op. 44: Introduction. Shine Out by Orchestra and Chorus of Covent Garden, Benjamin Britten, Jennifer Vyvyan, Sir Peter Pears & Norma Procter, see lyrics, music video & more!

Spring Symphony, Op. 44: Introduction. Shine OutOrchestra and Chorus of Covent Garden, Benjamin Britten, Jennifer Vyvyan, Sir Peter Pears & Norma Procter

Listen to Ayres, Book 1: No. 2, Thirsis and Milla by Julian Bream & Sir Peter Pears, see lyrics, music video & more!

Ayres, Book 1: No. 2, Thirsis and MillaJulian Bream & Sir Peter Pears

Listen to Ayres, Book 1: No. 7, Who Is It That This Dark Night by Julian Bream & Sir Peter Pears, see lyrics, music video & more!

Ayres, Book 1: No. 7, Who Is It That This Dark NightJulian Bream & Sir Peter Pears

Credits

AUSFÜHRENDE KÜNSTLER:INNEN

Sir Peter Pears

Sir Peter Pears

Tenor

Julian Bream

Laute

KOMPOSITION UND LIEDTEXT

Thomas Campion

Komponist:in

Edmund Fellowes

Edmund Fellowes

Arrangeur:in

PRODUKTION UND TECHNIK

Michael Williamson

Michael Williamson

Produzent:in

Lyrics

Fair, if you expect admiring

Sweet, if you provoke desiring

Grace dear love with kind requiting

Fond, but if thy light be blindness

Fair, if thou affect unkindness

Fly, both love and love's delighting

Then, when hope is lost and love is scorned

I'll bury my desires, and quench the fires that ever yet in vain have burned

Fates, if you rule lovers' fortune

Stars, if men your powers importune

Yield relief by your relenting

Time, if sorrow be not endless

Hope made vain, and pity friendless

Help to ease my long lamenting

But if griefs remain still unredressed

I'll fly to her again, and she for pity to renew my hopes distressed

Written by: Thomas Campion

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