エルガー：夜明けの風

　エルガー、結婚前の歌曲です。詩は婚約者アリス。エルガーからは『愛の挨拶』を贈り、アリスからは『夜明けの風』を贈って、絆を深めました。

　今回演奏する曲の中では少し異質かもしれません。他の作品は比較的穏やかで優しいのですが、この曲は熱を帯びています。

And the wind, the wind went out to meet with the sun

At the dawn when the night was done,

And he racked the clouds in lofty disdain

As they flocked in his airy train.

And the earth was grey, and grey was the sky,

In the hour when the stars must die;

And the moon had fled with her sad, wan light,

For her kingdom was gone with night.

Then the sun upleapt in might and in power,

And the worlds woke to hail the hour,

And the sea stream’d red from the kiss of his brow,

There was glory and light enow.

To his tawny mane and tangle of flush

Leapt the wind with a blast and a rush;

In his strength unseen, in triumph upborne,

Rode he out to meet with the morn!

清々しい風が駆け抜けていく。

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