Classical Music | Bass

Recorded on 02/17/2016, uploaded on 09/10/2016

Musician's or Publisher's Notes

Selections from Le Chalet
by Adolphe Adam

Vallons de l’Helvétie

Let’s stop here! The appearance of these mountains, Drunkenness and pleasure makes my heart shudder!
A moment of rest in the green fields
We will make on the field our first fervor.

Valleys of Helvetia
Object of my love,
Greetings dear land where I was born!
Abroad through an impious pact
I sold my blood and my faith
But now, oh my country!
I would die for you!

Do you hear? These tunes so touching and so sweet?

Chant de nos montagnes

Song of our mountains
that stirs,
Of our countryside you are the
Living memory
Your sweet harmony,
your enchanting sounds
Make the Fatherland
Present in our hearts!

Compared to other masters
That we had to serve,
if your pastoral sounds
ring out,
the pain wins us over,
and we then must die,
or to your mountains return!

Courtesy of International Music Foundation.