Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)

Subject: Lyr Req: 'So Deep is the Night' (Chopin)
From: GUEST,Monoglot
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 02:45 PM

Very familiar song, Chopin's "Tristesse" (though I can't find it in the Database), but I personally find some of the English Lyrics a bit awkward. I once heard it sung in French, on a radio broadcast by an Italian tenore, I think Tino Rossi, and wonder whether anyone knows the French lyrics.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'So Deep is the Night' (Chopin)
From:
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 03:01 PM

What is the French title?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'So Deep is the Night' (Chopin)
From: Peace
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 07:55 PM

"So Deep Is The Night, song (after Chopin's Tristesse, Etude Op. 10/3)"

From the www.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'So Deep is the Night' (Chopin)
From: GUEST
Date: 26 Nov 07 - 10:02 PM

Richard Tauber's rendition of 'Tristesse', in English, is worth hearing. Although both the recording and his style of delivery are very much of their time (1920s/30s) there is no discernable awkwardness of phrasing.


When young I thought the subject matter amusing, relating, as I was assured it does, to the brief period of post-coital sadness experienced by some individuals. Or is that just a myth?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'So Deep is the Night' (Chopin)
From: ard mhacha
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 04:21 AM

UK people will remember Ken Dodd the Liverpool comedian singing it.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'So Deep is the Night' (Chopin)
From: ard mhacha
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 04:26 AM

Also singing it on youtube Finbarr Wright the Irish Tenor.

Subject: Lyr Add: SO DEEP IS THE NIGHT (Chopin)
From: GUEST,flyingcat
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 06:22 AM

Here's the version I know

SO DEEP IS THE NIGHT
Chopin/Melfi/Miller.
Arr. Jason Carr

So deep is the night,
No moon tonight,
No friendly star
To guide me with its light;
Be still my heart,
Silent lest my love should be returning
From a world far apart.

So deep is the night
O lonely night,
On broken wings
My heart has taken flight
And left a dream.

In my dream our lips are blending,
Will my dream be never ending?
Will your mem'ry haunt me till I die?
Alone am I,
Deep into the night,
Waiting for the light,
Alone am I,
I wonder why?
Deep is the night.

I remember it from my childhood in my aunt's attic room on a wind up gramophone!
Lovely song, Moira

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'So Deep is the Night' (Chopin)
From: Lanfranc
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 08:01 AM

This was one of my party pieces before in the days when I had delusions of being a "serious" singer!

Flyingcat's lyric is as I remember it.

Alan

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'So Deep is the Night' (Chopin)
From: GUEST,monoglot
Date: 27 Nov 07 - 02:07 PM

Yes, those are the english words I've heard, and was never too keen on lips "blending", or the "I wonder why" bit. Could be worse; if they'd wanted to rhyme with something like "night is speeding" or "never heeding" or "always needing/pleading" it might put you in mind of vampyrs. But phrases from the French I recall include "mais le jour parait trop vite", "qu'un souvenir", and it begins with something like "L'ombre s'en fuit". If only I could get these French words, you see, I could sing it without the embarrassment of (what I find) awkward lines; and yes, it is exactly the kind of song Tauber did so well.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: 'So Deep is the Night' (Chopin)
From: ard mhacha
Date: 28 Nov 07 - 06:29 AM

Jo Stafford singing, No other love, is the same Chopin air.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: GUEST,monoglot
Date: 01 Dec 07 - 03:05 PM

Thanks for that; although it's not in the Mudcat database, I'll try other sources for these words (and still keep hoping to find the French ones)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: GUEST,sherbet
Date: 30 Aug 08 - 05:57 AM

Thank You,Thank You, Thank You....all of you..
I have been trying to find out the origin of this classic since my good friend said he would like it played at his passing..thanks to all of you, his last wishes are now possible

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: GUEST,sherbet
Date: 30 Aug 08 - 06:08 AM

Forgot to ask..does anyone know where I may be able to buy a copy of this classic?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: Acorn4
Date: 30 Aug 08 - 06:41 AM

Must admit I prefer to listen to Chopin unadulterated.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: GUEST,AmyS.
Date: 10 Sep 08 - 04:39 PM

What other lyrics can go with this music? Are there Christmas lyrics?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: ardmacha2
Date: 11 Sep 08 - 07:56 AM

I doubt if there are any Xmas lyrics. Maybe you might write some.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 14 Sep 08 - 08:49 PM

Here's the data from the National Library of Australia:

SO DEEP IS THE NIGHT (TRISTESSE)
music by Frederic Chopin, 1810-1849 arr. by Mario Melfi;
[French] words by Jean Marietti & Andre Viaud;
English lyric by Sonny Miller.
Published London: Sydney: K. Prowse; W. H. Paling, c1939.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: GUEST,Flying Scotsman
Date: 25 Aug 19 - 02:12 AM

Flying Cat version is the only acceptable one, as sung by the greatest Irish tenor ever, John McCormack.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 25 Aug 19 - 05:40 AM

I was lured into Chopin after hearing Tony Christie's version of "Deep is the Night". Many thanks, Tony!

"Deep Is The Night" - Tony Christie

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 25 Aug 19 - 05:49 AM

Chopin: Opus 10 No. 3 - Valentina Lisitsa
Enjoy.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: keberoxu
Date: 25 Aug 19 - 05:06 PM

There may be more than one French lyric to this melody.
Here is the one I found on the Internet.

L'OMBRE S'EN FUIT (TRISTESSE)
by Jean Loysel

L'ombre s'en fuit,
Adieu, beau rêve
Où les baisers
S'offraient comme des fleurs
La nuit fût brève,
Hélas! pourquoi
Si tôt fermer nos coeurs
À l'appel du bonheur

L'ombre s'en fuit
Ma lèvre hésite
À murmurer
Après de doux aveux
Des mots d'Adieux
Le soleil paraît trop vite
Faut-il donc
Que l'on se quitte?

Que m'importe à moi
L'envoi du temps
Je voudrais tant
Retarder l'aurore
Et t'aimer encore

L'ombre s'en fuit
Tout n'est que songe
Et tu n'es plus
Malgré tous nos désirs
Qu'un souvenir
Si l'amour n'est que mensonge
Au parfum triste qui ronge

S'il est vrai
Qu'à moi ta lèvre ment
Sache pourtant
Que toujours quand même
Cher amour, je t'aime
Éperdument


-- from the film Le chanteur inconnu (1939?)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: So Deep Is the Night (Chopin)
From: GUEST,Starship
Date: 27 Aug 19 - 10:47 AM

1947.