'Purcell/Britten: If Music Be the Food of Love, Sweeter than Roses (Elizaveta Kozlova)'

'Purcell/Britten: If Music Be the Food of Love, Sweeter than Roses (Elizaveta Kozlova)'
06:14 Aug 16, 2021
'Soprano Elizaveta Kozlova performs Britten\'s realization of Purcell\'s songs \"If music be the food of love\" and \"Sweeter than Roses\".  Pianist: Piaowen Tian  If music be the food of love Sing on, sing on, sing on, sing on \'Til I am filled, am filled with joy For then my listening soul you move For then my listening soul you move To pleasures that can never cloy Your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare That you are music everywhere Your eyes, your mien, your tongue declare That you are music everywhere  Pleasures invade both eye and ear So fierce, so fierce, so fierce, so fierce The transports are, they wound And all my senses feasted are And all my senses feasted are Though yet the treat is only sound Sure I must perish by your charms Unless you save me in your arms Sure I must perish by your charms Unless you save me in your arms  _____________________________________  Sweeter than roses, or cool evening breeze On a warm flowery shore, was the dear kiss, First trembling made me freeze, Then shot like fire all o\'er. What magic has victorious love! For all I touch or see since that dear kiss, I hourly prove, all is love to me.' 

Tags: singer , classical music , Opera , art song , opera singer , If music be the food of love , Purcell , britten , henry purcell , Benjamin Britten , Sweeter than roses , English art song

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