The Greatest Music of the West

[strandinthewind]

Also, David - what do you think of this

http://download.yousendit.com/41F9D6E923BCC3D7

It is "Vide Cor Meum" from the motion picture "Hannibal" and is by Patrick Cassidy (music Hans Zimmer) based on Dante's "La Vita Nuova", specifically on the sonnet "A ciascun'alma presa", in chapter 3 of the Vita Nuova. Mercifully, it was used in other settings as well. So, it got more exposure.

I think the words are brilliant - so tragic and sublime. Love that rare is a great thing and those who have had it that strong likely would eat that heart, particularly in the timber of the tenor in the final phrase? The nine year old Dante's eight year old Beatrice must have something to say the least.

E pensando di lei
Mi sopragiunse uno soave sonno

Ego dominus tuus
Vide cor tuum
E d'esto core ardendo
Cor tuum
(Chorus: Lei paventosa)
Umilmente pascea.
Appreso gir lo ne vedea piangendo.

La letizia si convertia
In amarissimo pianto

Io sono in pace
Cor meum
Io sono in pace
Vide cor meum