This song was recorded live at the Oxford Lieder Festival as part of Hugo Wolf: The Complete Songs on Stone Records.
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Weint nicht, ihr Äuglein!
German source:
Paul Heyse
Wie kann so trübe
Weinen vor Eifersucht,
Wer tötet durch Liebe?
Wer selbst Tod bringt,
Der sollt’ ihn ersehnen?
Sein Lächeln bezwingt
Was trotzt seinen Tränen.
Weint nicht, ihr Äuglein!
Wie kann so trübe
Weinen vor Eifersucht,
Wer tötet durch Liebe?
Weep not, dear eyes!
English translation ©
Richard Stokes
How can one who kills through love
Weep so bitterly
From jealousy?
Should he who deals death himself
Crave it?
Whoever resists his tears
Will be won over by his smiles.
Weep not, dear eyes!
How can one who kills through love
Weep so bitterly
From jealousy?
Translation © Richard Stokes, author of The Book of Lieder (Faber, 2005)
Weint nicht, ihr Äuglein!
German source:
Paul Heyse
Weep not, dear eyes!
English source:
Richard Stokes
Weint nicht, ihr Äuglein!
Weep not, dear eyes!
Wie kann so trübe
How can one who kills through love
Weinen vor Eifersucht,
Weep so bitterly
Wer tötet durch Liebe?
From jealousy?
Wer selbst Tod bringt,
Der sollt’ ihn ersehnen?
Sein Lächeln bezwingt
Was trotzt seinen Tränen.
Weint nicht, ihr Äuglein!
Wie kann so trübe
Weinen vor Eifersucht,
Wer tötet durch Liebe?
Composer
Hugo Wolf
Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf was born on 13 March 1860, the fourth of six surviving children, in Windischgraz, Styria, then part of the Austrian Empire. He was taught the piano and violin by his father at an early age and continued to study piano at the…
Poet
Paul Heyse
Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse was a distinguished German writer and translator. A member of two important literary societies, the Tunnel über der Spree in Berlin and Die Krokodile in Munich, he wrote novels, poetry, 177 short stories, and about sixty…