Nänie (Opus 82)

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For Individual Voices

• Select the voice(s) you require from Soprano, Alto, Tenor and Bass

  You will additionally get :

  • SATB played together on piano with orchestral accompaniment
  • All voices played on wind instruments with the accompaniment
  • Accompaniment only with a metronome for A Capella sections
  • Accompaniment (As the orchestra plays)

For All voices

• Select ALL CHOIR PARTS (Ignore individual voices).
  • Selecting this option you will get :
    • 4 recordings, each with a a different voice highlighted on piano.
      • Soprano
      • Alto
      • Tenor
      • Bass
    • SATB played together on piano with orchestral accompaniment
    • All voices played on wind instruments with the accompaniment
    • Accompaniment only with a metronome for A Capella sections
    • Accompaniment (As the orchestra plays)

If you are requiring just accompaniment :

• Select one of the packages above, it comes as the bonus download.

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Nänie
Auch das Schöne muß sterben! Das Menschen und Götter bezwinget,
Nicht die eherne Brust rührt es dem stygischen Zeus.
Einmal nur erweichte die Liebe den Schattenbeherrscher,
Und an der Schwelle noch, streng, rief er zurück sein Geschenk.
Nicht stillt Aphrodite dem schönen Knaben die Wunde,
Die in den zierlichen Leib grausam der Eber geritzt.
Nicht errettet den göttlichen Held die unsterbliche Mutter,
Wann er am skäischen Tor fallend sein Schicksal erfüllt.
Aber sie steigt aus dem Meer mit allen Töchtern des Nereus,
Und die Klage hebt an um den verherrlichten Sohn.
Siehe! Da weinen die Götter, es weinen die Göttinnen alle,
Daß das Schöne vergeht, daß das Vollkommene stirbt.
Auch ein Klaglied zu sein im Mund der Geliebten ist herrlich;
Denn das Gemeine geht klanglos zum Orkus hinab.

English translation:
Even the beautiful must perish! That which overcomes gods and men
Moves not the armored heart of the Stygian Zeus.
Only once did love come to soften the Lord of the Shadows,
And just at the threshold he sternly took back his gift.
Neither can Aphrodite heal the wounds of the beautiful youth
That the boar had savagely torn in his delicate body.
Nor can the deathless mother rescue the divine hero
When, at the Scaean gate now falling, he fulfills his fate.
But she ascends from the sea with all the daughters of Nereus,
And she raises a plaint here for her glorious son.
Behold! The gods weep, all the goddesses weep,
That the beautiful perishes, that the most perfect passes away.
But a lament on the lips of loved ones is glorious,
For the ignoble goes down to Orcus in silence.