Stenhammar - I Seraillets Have (In The Seraglio Garden) video free download

Wilhelm Stenhammar (1871 - 1927):

I SERAILLETS HAVE ~

In The Seraglio Garden

This song is no. 2 of "Tre körvisor" ("Three choral songs").

Stenhammar was a Swedish composer, conductor and pianist. The poem was written by J. P. Jacobsen, who was a Danish novelist, poet, and scientist.

Rosen sænker sit Hoved, tungt

af Dug og Duft,

Og Pinjerne svaje saa tyst og mat

i lumre Luft.

Kilderne vælte det tunge Sølv

i døsig Ro,

Minareterne pege mod Himlen op

i Tyrketro,

Og Halvmaanen driver saa jævnt afsted

over det jævne Blaa,

Og den kysser Rosers og Lilliers Flok,

Alle de Blomster smaa

I Seraillets Have,

I Seraillets Have.

(J. P. Jacobsen)

The rose is sinking its head, heavy

With dew and fragrance,

And the pines are waving so silent and

Faint in the sultry air.

The brooks roll their heavy iron

In complete tranquility,

Minarets point at Heaven

In the Turkish faith,

And the halfmoon slowly drifts away

Over the evening-blue,

And kisses the herds of roses and lilies,

All those little flowers

In Seraglio's Garden,

In Seraglio's Garden.

Det Jyske Kammerkor

Conducted by Mogens Dahl