Cécile McLorin Salvant - D'un feu secret (Official Video)
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Cécile McLorin Salvant performs 'D'un secret,' from her new album, 'Mélusine,' due March 24 on Nonesuch Records. Pre-order now at https://cecilemclorinsalvant.lnk.to/melusine

Cécile McLorin Salvant, vocals
Sullivan Fortner, synths

Video by Amanda Bonaiuto in Brooklyn, NY
Assistance by Kohana Wilson

'Mélusine' features a mix of five originals and interpretations of nine songs, dating as far back as the 12th century, mostly sung in French along with Occitan, English, and Haitian Kreyòl, that tell the folk tale of Mélusine, a woman who turns into a half-snake each Saturday after a childhood curse by her mother. Mélusine agrees to marry Raymondin on the condition that he never see her on Saturdays. He agrees but is later convinced by his brother to break his promise, piercing his wife’s door with a sword and finding her naked in the bath, half snake, half woman. When she catches him spying on her, she turns into a dragon and flies away, only to reappear every time one of her descendants is on their deathbed.

D'UN FEU SECRET
(Michel Lambert, air de cour, 1660)?

D'un feu secret je me sens consumer
Sans pouvoir soulager le mal qui me possède;

Je pourrois bien guérir si je cessois d'aymer,
Mais j'ayme mieux le mal que le remède.

Quand je mourrois, pourroit-on me blasmer ?
Qui commence d’aymer , ne doit-il pas poursuivre ?

Quand on sçaura, Philis, que j'ay cessé d'aymer,
On saura bien que j'ay cessé de vivre.

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By a secret a fire
I feel myself
I feel myself being consumed
Without being able to relieve the pain that possesses me

I could be cured
If I stopped loving
But I prefer the disease than the remedy

When I die, will they be able to blame me?
The one who begins to love, should he not pursue?

When they know, Mélusine,
That I have ceased loving
They will surely know, that I have ceased living

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