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AMORE e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa

"It's a loving and clever duet, and a true gem of a song." — Opera News

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"Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa" by Henry Dehlinger

TITLE
Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa

DURATION 
4 minutes 

YEAR OF COMPOSITION 
2019 

INSTRUMENTATION 
Full Score: Soprano, Baritone and Orchestra (1.1.1.1 - 1.0.0.0 - strings)

Chamber Ensemble: Soprano, Baritone, String Quintet and Piano

Vocal Score: Soprano, Baritone and Piano Reduction

RELATED RECORDINGS 
At That Hour: Art Songs by Henry Dehlinger on Avie Records

LICENSING  
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP)

WORLD PREMIERE
May 23, 2021, National Philharmonic at Strathmore (orchestral)

August 1, 2019, Berkshire High Peaks Music Festival, Great Barrington, MA (string quintet)

PURCHASE
J.W. Pepper

COMPOSER'S NOTE

The full title of Amore translates to, “Love and the gentle heart are one and the same,” and I wrote this love duet especially for my dear friends Jennifer and Eddie’s nuptials in Florence, Italy.

What better text could I set than a beautiful love sonnet in Italian from La vita nuova by Dante, the revered Florentine poet?

On May 23, 2021, Amore kicked off National Philharmonic’s Spring 2021 live stream concert, Amore & Mozart, which was simulcast on WETA, the leading public broadcasting station in the nation’s capital. 

Led by conductor Piotr Gajewski, the concert featured my favorite operatic duo of Met soprano Danielle Talamantes and bass-baritone Kerry Wilkerson - who sang it at the wedding and for whose voices I wrote the duet!

Danielle, Kerry and I recorded Amore for our latest album, At That Hour: Art Songs by Henry Dehlinger, which was released in October 2020 by Avie Records.

I'm especially thrilled that Amore is featured on Spotify’s curated High Notes playlist, representing “the best new releases in opera and vocal music.”

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    THE TEXT 

    Amore e 'l cor gentil sono una cosa, 
    Sì come il saggio in suo dittare pone, 
    E così esser l'un sanza l'altro osa  
    Com/alma razional sanza ragione. 

    Falli natura quand'è amorosa, 
    Amor per sire e 'l cor per sua magione, 
    Dentro la qual dormendo si riposa 
    Tal volta poca e tal lunga stagione. 

    Bieltate appare in saggia donna pui, 
    Che piace a gli occhi sì, che dentro al core 
    Nasce un disio de la cosa piacente; 

    E tanto dura talora in costui, 
    Che fa svegliar lo spirito d'Amore.     
    E simil face in donna omo valente. 

    TRANSLATION 

    Love and the gentle heart are one same thing, 
    Even as the wise man in his ditty saith: 
    Each, of itself, would be such life in death 
    As rational soul bereft of reasoning. 

    'Tis nature makes them when she loves: a king 
    Love is, whose palace where he sojourneth 
    Is called the heart; there draws he quiet breath 
    At first, with brief or longer slumbering. 

    Then beauty seen in virtuous womankind 
    Will make the eyes desire, and through the heart 
    Send the desiring of the eyes again; 

    Where often it abides so long enshrin'd 
    That Love at length out of his sleep will start. 
    And women feel the same for worthy men. 

    Dante Alighieri, 1265 - 1321 
    (Trans. Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

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