Text & Translation
Quel galant m'est comparable
Greek source:
Anon.
sto mpazári perpatéi
kapetán Vasilikí?
Me koumpoúria dyó sti mési
kai me díkano spathí.
Gia s' agápi mou chrysí!
What gallant can compare with me?
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
Among those seen passing by?
Tell me, Mistress Vassiliki?
See, hanging at my belt,
Pistols and sharp swaord...
And it's you I love!
Translation © Richard Stokes, author of A French Song Companion (Oxford, 2000)
Quel galant m'est comparable
Greek source:
Anon.
What gallant can compare with me?
English source:
Richard Stokes
Poios asíkis san k' eména,
What gallant can compare with me?
sto mpazári perpatéi
Among those seen passing by?
kapetán Vasilikí?
Tell me, Mistress Vassiliki?
Me koumpoúria dyó sti mési
See, hanging at my belt,
kai me díkano spathí.
Pistols and sharp swaord...
Gia s' agápi mou chrysí!
And it's you I love!
Composer
Maurice Ravel
Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. In the 1920s and 1930s he was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. He was one of the first composers to acknowledge the potential of recording in making…
