performed by Such Sweete Melodie, at the Byron Colby Barn in Grayslake IL. The members of the group are Lindsey Adams, mezzo-soprano; Alice Culin-Ellison, Baroque violin; Charles Metz, virginal; Jeffery Noonan, theorbo; and Philip Spray, violone. Text:

Vi ricorda ò bosch'ombrosi
De'miei lunghi aspri tormenti,
Quando i sassi à' miei lamenti
Rispondean fatti pietosi?

Dite: allhor non vi sembrai
Più d'ogni altro sconsolato?
Hor fortuna ha stil cangiato
Ed hà volti in festa i guai.

Vissi già mesto e dolente;
Or gioisco, e quegli affanni
Che sofferti hò per tant'anni
Fan più caro il ben presente.

Sol per tè, bella Euridice,
Benedico il mio tormento;
Dopo il duol viè più contento,
Dopo il mal viè più felice.

English translation:
Do you remember, O shady groves,
My long and harsh torments,
When, at my laments, the rocks
Were moved to pity?

Say, did I not seem to you
More wretched than any other?
Now fortune has changed her course
And has turned woes into joy.

I lived then in sadness and sorrow,
Now I rejoice, and those torments
That I suffered for so long
Make my present happiness much dearer.

Only for you, fair Euridice,
I bless my torment;
After sorrow one is even more content,
After woe, one is even happier.

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