Se pieta di me non senti
I heard this piece of music on Radio 3 earlier today and it completely blew me away. I must get the DVD of the 2011 performance of Handel’s Giulio Cesare from which it was taken, but in the meantime here’s a clip from Youtube to give you an idea. This is the marvellous Natalie Dessay as Cleopatra singing the da capo aria Se pieta di me non senti. It’s a truly sublime and moving performance from a singer at the very peak of her prowess. Brava!
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In the Dark 
November 3, 2012 at 10:41 pm
That’s a nice clip from Handel’s Giulio Cesare.
However, my interest in this morning’s CD Review on Radio 3 was the review of recording of Bruckner’s brilliant Fourth Symphony. The top-rated recording was from the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Günter Wand, a disc I do not currently have.
November 5, 2012 at 7:39 am
Günter Wand is almost as good a name for a conductor as Alan Heavens is for an astronomer. 🙂
November 5, 2012 at 7:46 pm
Fortunately, the Berliner Philharmoniker’s current principal conductor, Sir Simon Rattle, does not live up to his name: there are no rattling sounds when he conducts.