Watch it and weep (from the sheer beauty)
April 12, 2020 11:17 AM   Subscribe

In case you missed it earlier, Andrea Bocelli concert On Easter Sunday (April 12, 2020), by invitation of the City and of the Duomo cathedral of Milan, Italian global music icon Andrea Bocelli gave a solo performance representing a message of love, healing and hope to Italy and the world.

Download the hymn sheet and sing along here: https://AndreaBocelli.lnk.to/Hymnsheet

Track list:
Panis Angelicus (from “Messe Solennelle” Op. 12, FWV 61) César Franck

Ave Maria, CG 89a (arr. from Johann Sebastian Bach, “Prelude” no. 1, BWV 846)
Charles-François Gounod

Sancta Maria (arr. from “Cavalleria Rusticana”, Intermezzo)
Pietro Mascagni

Domine Deus (from “Petite Messe Solennelle”)
Gioachino Antonio Rossini

Amazing Grace
John Newton
posted by cyndigo (7 comments total) 20 users marked this as a favorite
 
That "Amazing Grace" is ... amazing.
posted by chavenet at 11:39 AM on April 12, 2020 [3 favorites]


Thank you for this. Pure bliss.
posted by night_train at 1:11 PM on April 12, 2020 [1 favorite]


This was beautiful. Thank you.
posted by kalimac at 1:21 PM on April 12, 2020 [1 favorite]


The drone shots of empty cities were haunting. So strange to see places that I have visited or lived in, once bustling, now lifeless. Because I'm in the countryside, and normally only see one person (my neighbor) from a distance, I hadn't really internalized the reality of the cities.
Today my daughter sent me a picture from her walk home from work, and it's only now I realize that what she was telling me is that she was all alone. Not a human in sight, anywhere, in one of the busiest streets in the city.
posted by mumimor at 1:40 PM on April 12, 2020 [5 favorites]


Most accurate title eva.
posted by bigZLiLk at 7:13 PM on April 12, 2020 [2 favorites]


Thank you for sharing.

I had missed it; and it gave a bit of grace to the end of my day. It filled the place in my heart that's holding fear.
posted by mightshould at 4:43 AM on April 13, 2020 [1 favorite]


Somewhere in the middle of Sancta Maria, the camera picks up a couple in the distance - by the door of the cathedral. I envisaged them as asking "can we just come in and sit on this pew at the back to listen?" - and being told, politely and firmly to fuck off.

I was struck by how necessarily low-tech a lot of the shots were: a fixed camera on a roof somewhere, maybe a drone. The receding shot of Bocelli at the start of "Amazing Grace" where the cameraman simply walks away from him. Nothing with elaborate cranes or anything like that. Whether by accident or not, these shots do a great job of conveying that this is not business as usual.

The cathedral itself - with a construction period that lasted nearly 600 years and which started in the era of the Black Death - seems like a suitable building to use as well.
posted by rongorongo at 4:19 AM on April 14, 2020 [1 favorite]


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