Roland Lassus, Susanne un jour, Vox Luminis

Roland (de) Lassus
1532 - 1594
Susanne un Jour

Vox Luminis - LIVE
Armelle Froeliger
Barnabas Hegyi
Philippe Froeliger
Olivier Berten
Lionel Meunier

Text - FRENCH:

Susanne un jour d'amour solicitée
Par deux viellardz, convoitans sa beauté,
Fust en son coeur triste et desconfortée,
Voyant l'effort fait à sa chasteté.
Elle leur dict, Si par desloyauté
De ce corps mien vous avez jouissance,
C'est fait de moy. Si ie fay resistance,
Vous me ferez mourir en deshonneur.
Mais j'aime mieux périr en innocence,
Que d'offenser par peché le Seigneur.

ENGLISH - translation
Susanne, in a day of love, approached by
Two old men lusting after her beauty,
became sad and displeased in her heart
seeing the interest in her chastity.
She says : 'If, illegitimately,
From my body you take pleasure,
It would be my choice. If I resist,
You would make me die in disgrace.
But I prefer to perish innocent,
Than to offend the Lord with a sin.

this recording has been made on 25-2-2013 in Beaufays (Belgium)
and will be part of a CD-box about the History of Renaissance Music, which will appear at the label Ricercar (part of Outhere) somtime in the end of 2013.

the release of this box will be mentioned, as well as the RIC-nr for ordering, as soon as it will be set.

thank you for your interest!