DESCRIPTION:
Remarkably haunting rendition of DW Myatt's translation. The gentle aura, measured pace transports you to Old Greece and the oracular Mysteries. Sound effects and music (including piano and strings) are subtle, tantalising. The voice, clear, sonorous, beautiful, yearning. Sublimely evocative of female love and unadorned beauty of Sappho's Greek.

Composed and performed by Richard Moult, Sister Lianna, and Wulfran Hall.
Translated by David Myatt
Artwork by Richard Moult


Fragment 34

Awed by her brightness
Stars near the beautiful moon
Cover their own shining faces
When she lights earth
With her silver brilliance
Of love ....


Fragment 31

I see he who sits near you as an equal of the gods
For he can closely listen to your delightful voice
And that seductive laugh
That makes the heart behind my breasts to tremble.

Even when I glimpse you for a moment
My tongue is stilled as speech deserts me
While a delicate fire is beneath my skin -
My eyes cannot see, then,
When I hear only a whirling sound
As I shivering, sweat
Because all of me trembles;
I become paler than drought-grass
And nearer to death ...

D. W. Myatt translation:
http://classicpersuasion.org/pw/sappho/sappmyatt.htm

MP3 Format:
http://www.mediafire.com/?e1hljm0wl4h