The beauty of the human voice: Maya Amir and the cantata "Mi palpita il cor" by G. F. Händel

The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all. We will find out in today's episode featuring the brilliant singer Maya Amir.

https://aicf.org/artist/maya-amir/

Maya's album on Spotify:

https://open.spotify.com/artist/1LVvM5W9d9fMPYGD2cvZoD?autoplay=true

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWmJWvGzUx7k05kbgoCuX2A

The score on the music stand for today is an early cantata by George Frideric Handel for voice, traverso or oboe and basso continuo.

George Frideric Handel (1685–1759) wrote at least three versions of the cantata to the text Mi palpita il cor. These were composed during the first years after he had established himself in England some time between 1710 and 1713. The musical material of the different versions corresponds only in parts.

The information found in sources appears to be rather complex. In the Händel Werke Verzeichnis(HWV) only four versions of the cantata are recorded (a-d) although at least six versions of the complete cantata as well as single arias exist. The various copies also show considerable differences and embellishments of which the origin is partly not known.

The score:

https://s9.imslp.org/files/imglnks/usimg/a/a6/IMSLP282369-PMLP458234-Mi_palpita_il_cor.pdf

The text:

Arioso e Recitativo:
Mi palpita il cor,
né intendo perché,
agitata è l’alma mia,
né so cos’è.
Tormento e gelosia,
sdegno, affanno e dolore
da me che pretendete?
Se mi volete amante, amante son;
ma, oh Dio, non m’uccidete,
che il cor fra tante pene
più soffrire non può le sue catene.

Arioso e Recitativo:
I feel my heart beating
for reasons I do not know,
I feel my soul in turmoil
but ask myself for what.
Anguish and jealousy,
fury, grief and pain,
what is it you demand?
If you want me to love, I will be loving:
but, oh God, do not kill me,
since my aching heart
no longer can abide its chains.

Aria:
Ho tanti affanni in petto,
che qual sia il più tiranno
io dir no’l so.
So ben che do ricetto
a un aspro e crudo affanno
e che morendo vo’.

Aria:
My worries are so plentiful
that I can no longer discern,
which of them are worst.
I sense that in me
dwells a cruel and bitter pain,
and that I will die.

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