pourquoi doux rossignol
Jean-Baptiste de Bousset (1662-1725)
sonata in c major, BWV 1033: III. adagio
J.S. Bach (1685-1750)
the handkerchief scene, from memoirs of a geisha
John Williams (1932 - )
variations on the last rose of summer (excerpt)
Friedrich Kuhlau (1786 - 1832)
syrinx
Claude Debussy (1862 - 1918)
the great train race
Ian Clarke (1964 - )
played on a Rod Cameron copy of a c. 1700 Hotteterre flute
boxwood and ivory with a silver key
pitch = 392 hz
Pourquoi, doux rossignol,
dans ce sombre séjour
M'éveillez-vous avant l'Aurore?
Venez-vous à mon coeur annoncer le retour
Du charmant objet que j'adore ?
Pourquoi, doux rossignol,
dans ce sombre séjour
M'éveillez-vous avant l'Aurore?
Mais si Climaine, a mon amour trop insensible encore,
Abandonne mon coeur au feu qui le dévore ;
Pourquoi, doux rossignol,
dans ce sombre séjour
M'éveillez-vous avant l'Aurore?
Why, sweet nightingale
in this dark abode
do you wake me before dawn?
Have you come to announce the return
Of the one that I love?
Why, sweet nightingale
in this dark abode
do you wake me before dawn?
But, if Climaine is still insensitive to my love
Then abandon my heart to the fire which devours it
Why, sweet nightingale
in this dark abode
do you wake me before dawn?
played on a Martin Wenner copy after Carlo Palanca
ebony with a silver key
pitch = 415 hz
listen to Emi's recording of this movement with RUCKUS from the album
FLY THE COOP: Bach Sonatas and Preludes
played on a Martin Wenner copy after Carlo Palanca
ebony with a silver key
pitch = 415 hz
hear this piece in the movie soundtrack
from the movie Memoirs of a Geisha