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It´s funny…


If i want to i can find the whole Masonic “Scottish Rite” on the web, pictures and all.

I can find facts about persons.

I can probably find when Tom Cruised pooped last.

But i cant find the lyrics to one of the most famous arias ever written.

Even if i look under “Konstanze” or “Belmontes Aria” or “O wie ängstlish” (cant they just call the arias 1,2,3 and so on?).

It´s not like there is a copyright or anything.

The web is just devoid of any useful information in favor of Anime, Bieber and RPG´s and other crap that will be forgotten by the time you have finished this sentence..

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Jussi Björling – Tonerna (1957)


Tonerna
Text: Erik Gustaf Geijer
Musik: Carl Sjöberg

Detta är 1957 versionen av Tonerna.
Kungliga Hovkapellet spelar under ledning av Nils Grevillius.

Tonerna:
“Tanke, vars strider blott natten ser
Toner, hos eder om vila den ber
Hjärta, som lider
som lider av dagens gny
Toner till eder
Till er vill det fly”

This short poem is impossible to translate to English. Here’s the translation from the liner notes: “Thoughts, whose struggles only the night knows.
Music, they ask you for peace.
The heart that suffers.
That suffers from life’s commotion.
Music, to you – to you it wants to escape.”