#ruby hughes

[caviarsonoro]

Osvaldo Golijov:  Three Songs ii. Lúa Descolorida

Moon, colorless

like the color of pale gold:

You see me here and I wouldn’t like you

to see me from the heights above.

Take me, silently, in your ray

to the space of your journey.

Star of the orphan souls,

Moon, colorless:

I know that you don’t illuminate

sadness as sad as mine.

Go and tell it to your master

and tell him to take me to his place.

But don’t tell him anything,

Moon, colorless,

because my fate won’t change

here or in other worlds.

If you know where Death

has her dark mansion,

Tell her to take my body and soul together

To a place where I won’t be remembered,

Neither in this world, nor in the heights above.

Lúa descolorida by Rosalía de Castro

[arutai]

Ruby Hughes by Phil Sharp

[thesobsister]

Ruby Hughes, "Come again, sweet love doth now invite" (J. Dowland)

from The First Booke of Songes (1613 ed.)

[parmandil]

Torni alfin ridente from Rossini's Tancredi, sung by Ruby Hughes.

[parmandil]

God, I love the BBC iPlayer.