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Natalie Dessay: Carmina Burana:
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Natalie Dessay sings the 4 soprano solos in Carl Orff's cantata "Carmina Burana"! Michel Plasson conducts l'Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse.

1: "Siqua sine socio"

Latin text:
Siqua sine socio,
caret omni gaudio;
tenet noctis infima
sub intimo
cordis in custodia.

English translation:
The girl without a lover
misses out on all pleasures,
she keeps the dark night
hidden
in the depths of her heart.

2: "Stetit puella"

Latin text:
Stetit puella
rufa tunica;
si quis eam tetigit,
tunica crepuit.
Eia.
Stetit puella
tamquam rosula;
facie splenduit,
os eius fioruit.
Eia.

English Text:
A girl stood
in a red tunic;
if anyone touched it,
the tunic rustled.
Eia!
A girl stood
like a little rose:
her face was radiant
and her mouth in bloom.
Eia!

3: "In truitina"

Latin Text:
In truitina mentis dubia
fluctuant contraria
lascivus amor et pudicitia.
Sed eligo quod video,
collum iugo prebeo:
ad iugum tamen suave transeo.

English Text:
In the wavering balance of my feelings
set against each other
lascivious love and modesty.
But I choose what I see,
and submit my neck to the yoke;
I yield to the sweet yoke.

4: "Dulcissime"

Latin Text:
Dulcissime,
totam tibi subdo me!

English Text:
Sweetest one! Ah!
I give myself to you totally!