jorge a. bosso

musician, composer, cellist

works_chamber music_

DUO III
"Dolcissime vite nostre …"

for violin and double bass (2012)

First Performance: February 6th 2010, Centre Stage CBSO, Birmingham, UK

Dora Schwarzberg, violin
Dan Styffe, double bass

Duration: 13’

Adagio, come da lontano
Tempo Primo, Allegro ruvido
Largamente
Fugato
Allegretto

On the fall of the summer 2012 I have been working on a stage work inspired on the composer Carlo Gesualdo. I wrote the lyrics of Gesualdo, Alchimista dei Suoni myself. A polyphonic drama in one act for five singers, a madrigal quintet and instrumental ensemble. An oneiric voyage from his time, the years of Galileo, Giordano Bruno, Torquato Tasso until our days.

In the meantime I undertook the idea of writing an instrumental composition based on the fourth madrigal from the fifth Book by Carlo Gesualdo.

Dolcissima mia vita,
A che tardate la bramata aita?
Credete forse che'l bel foco ond'ardo
Sia per finir perché torcete'l guardo?
Ahi, non fia mai, ché brama il mio desire
O d'amarti, o morire.
Sweetest life,
Why do you withhold the relief which I long for?
Perhaps you think that my burning desire will end,
Because you turn away whenever I see you?
Alas, this cannot be,
I must either love you or die