Tuesday, May 20, 2025
On this day in music history - Bellini: Norma (2013)
Album by
Cecilia Bartoli,
released May
20, 2013.
Bellini:
Norma: Sinfonia (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini:
Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: Introduzione - “Ite sul colle, o Druidi” (Critical Ed.
Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Svanir
le voci!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma /
Act 1 Scene 1: “Meco all’altar di Venere” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and
Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Me protegge, me difende”
(Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1
Scene 1: “Norma viene” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi);
Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Sediziose voci, voci di guerra” (Critical Ed.
Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Casta
Diva” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act
1 Scene 1: “Fine al rito” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi);
Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Ah! bello a me ritorna” (Critical Ed. Maurizio
Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Sgombra è la
sacra selva, compiuto il rito” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo
Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Deh! proteggimi, o Dio!” (Critical
Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1:
“Eccola! va, mi lascia, ragion non odo” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and
Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 1: “Va, crudele, al Dio
spietato” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma /
Act 1 Scene 2: “Vanne, e li cela entrambi” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and
Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Adalgisa!” (Critical Ed.
Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Oh!
rimembranza!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini:
Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Ah! sì, fa core, e abbracciami” (Critical Ed. Maurizio
Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Ma di’... l’amato
giovane quale fra noi si noma?”...”Oh non tremare “ (Critical Ed. Maurizio
Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1 Scene 2: “Oh! di qual sei
tu vittima “..”Oh! qual traspare orribile”..”Norma! de’ tuoi rimproveri”
(Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 1
Scene 2: “Perfido! - Or basti...Vanne, sì: mi lascia, indegno” (Critical Ed.
Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 1: Scena –
Introduzione - “Dormono entrambi” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo
Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 1: “Mi chiami, o Norma!” (Critical Ed.
Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 1: “Deh! con
te, con te li prendi” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi);
Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 1: “Mira, O Norma” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi
and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 1: “Si, fino all’ore
estreme” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma /
Act 2 Scene 2: “Non parti?” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi);
Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 2: “Guerrieri! a voi venirne” (Critical Ed.
Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 2: “Ah! del
Tebro al giogo indegno fremo io pure” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and
Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Ei tornerà” (Critical Ed.
Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Squilla
il bronzo del Dio!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi);
Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Guerra, guerra!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi
and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Né compi il rito, o
Norma?” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma /
Act 2 Scene 3: “In mia man alfin tu sei”..”Già mi pasco ne’ tuoi sguardi”
(Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2
Scene 3: “Dammi quel ferro” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi);
Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Qual cor tradisti, qual cor perdesti”
(Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2
Scene 3: “Norma! deh! Norma, scolpati!” (Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and
Riccardo Minasi); Bellini: Norma / Act 2 Scene 3: “Deh non volerli vittime”
(Critical Ed. Maurizio Biondi and Riccardo Minasi).
Thursday, May 15, 2025
Introvert insight:
I hold this to be the highest task for a bond
between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
Solitude is creativity's best friend, and
solitude is refreshment for our souls.
- Naomi Judd.
- Naomi Judd.
The monotony and solitude of a quiet life
stimulates the creative mind.
- Albert Einstein.
- Albert Einstein.
Without great solitude no serious work is
possible.
- Pablo Picasso.
Saturday, May 10, 2025
On this day in music history - The album Haunted Heart, by Renée Fleming (2005)
Haunted Heart
by Renée Fleming
was released on May 10, 2005.
Track list:
Haunted Heart; River; When Did You Leave Heaven?; You’ve Changed; Answer Me; My Cherie Amour; In My Life; The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress; Wozzeck/The Midnight Sun; Liebst du um Schönheit; My One And Only Love/This Is Always; Canção do Amor; Psyché; Hard Times Come Again No More.
Thursday, May 8, 2025
On this day in music history - Sensual Journeys, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2012)
Track list:
Contemplating; Joy; Flight of The Snowbird; Gliding on Air; From the Outside; Song Phonique; Frozen Rose; The Midnight Interlude; Moving On; White View; View from My Studio (Live).
Wednesday, May 7, 2025
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