J.S. Bach, Cantata 201
“Rush, You Whirling Winds!
The Contest Between Phoebus and Pan”

Apollo and Pan challenge each other to a singing
contest to determine who is the better of the two.
The following aria is Apollo’s ‘tour de force’.


5. Aria Phoebus Apollo:

Full of burning desire

I press your tender cheeks,

Sweet, beautiful Hyakinthos.

And your eyes I love to kiss

Because they are my morning stars

And the sun of the soul.