Aris Christofellis - Koumendakis: Eros Daemon Mvt. 1.

Giorgos Koumendakis:
"Eros Daemon" Movement 1
Setting of a poem by Sappho
(Giorgos Koumendakis: 4 Works for Aris Christofellis, Track 11)

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Annibale Carracci, Venus with a Satyr and Cupids (detail, re-worked), c. 1588.I am dry with longing
and I hunger for her.
Far better that I were dead.

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible -
loosens my limbs and I tremble.

Far better that I were dead.

I swear to you, she lures and melts my heart.
But my ears are ringing and I am
in a cold sweat, shivering all over.

Far better that I were dead.
Text from CD insert.


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Aris Christofellis - Koumendakis: Eros Daemon Mvt. 1.