Duet: "Quell' onda che rovina"

Duet for soprano and contralto (published in 1763)

From the programme 30 October, 1912:

One movement, Allegretto, without recitative.  The translation of the Italian words is as follows.  "The wave that rushes down from Alpine slopes, leaps, breaks, and murmers, growing clear.  Another wave, 'tis true, reposes in hollow dark and shady, but in that repose loses all its beauty."