Sibelius : Svarta Rosor (Roses noires, 흑장미) / Karen Vourc'h, soprano

Karen Vourc'h, soprano
Susan Manoff, piano
Svarta rosor (흑장미)
Language: Swedish (Svenska)
Sag hvarfor ar du sa ledsen i dag,
Du, som alltid ar sa lustig och glad?
Och inte ar jag mera ledsen i dag
An nar jag tyckes dig lustig och glad;
Ty sorgen har nattsvarta rosor.
I mitt hjerta der vaxer ett rosendetrad
Som aldrig nansin vill lemna mig fred.
Och pa stjelkarne sitter [tagg]1 vid tagg,
Och det vallar mig standigt sveda och agg;
Ty sorgen har nattsvarta rosor.
Men af rosor blir det en hel klenod,
An hvita som doden, an roda som blod.
Det vaxer och vaxer. Jag tror jag forgar,
I hjerttradets rotter det rycker och slar;
Ty sorgen har nattsvarta rosor.

Black roses
Language: English
Tell me, why are you so unhappy today,
You who are always so cheerful and bright?
In fact I am no more unhappy today
Than when you think me cheerful and bright;
For grief has roses black as night.
In my heart there grows a flowering rose-tree
That will never, ever leave me in peace.
And the stalks are all covered with thorn on thorn,
And it nags and torments me without respite;
For grief has roses black as night.
But from roses there comes a flawless jewel,
As white as death, as red as blood.
It grows bigger and bigger.  I feel my strength fail,
It tears and gnaws at the roots of my heart;
For grief has roses black as night.