Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle (HWV 205) - Handel

Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle ("Sweet silence, soft springs")
HWV 205 from Nine German Arias (1724-26)

Music: Georg Friedrich Händel (1726–1728)

Performed by HIP Company for the album, 'Pastorales: Arias for the Open Air' (2021)
Bonnie de la Hunty (soprano)
Sarah Papadopoulos (violin)
Krista Low (cello)
James Huntingford (harpsichord)

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Videography by Dylan Woods (Partografia Photography and Film).
Sound engineering by Elliot Smith (Sundown Studios).
Mastering by George Georgiadis (Little Wing Sound).

German text by Barthold Heinrich Brockes (1680 – 1747):

Süße Stille, sanfte Quelle
Ruhiger Gelassenheit!
Selbst die Seele wird erfreut,
Wenn ich mir nach dieser Zeit
Arbeitsamer Eitelkeit
Jene Ruh vor Augen stelle,
Die uns ewig ist bereit.

English translation:

Sweet silence, soft springs
Peaceful calm!
My soul itself will be gladdened,
When I, after this time
Of laborious futility,
this peace I will see
that awaits us in eternity.