Cecilia Bartoli: Homage a Maria Malibran Part 3(a)

Link to part 3(b) at the end of this.

I am uploading the entire telecast from the Palau de la Musica in Barcelona and featuring Cecilia Bartoli and the La Scintilla orchestra.

Cecilia Bartoli in Concert. Homage a Maria Malibran.

3rd piece:
Gioacchino Rossini: Otello
Desdemona: Assisa al pie d'un salice... Deh, calma (Willow song)

Those aching for more information should go here:
http://www.ceciliabartolionline.com/news.html
http://www.mariamalibran.net/en/introduction

This is another piece that needed to be split in 2 because it is longer than 10 minutes. Part 3 goes all the way to the end of the 1st verse. Part 3b starts at the storm music. I was able to do it in a way that there is no repetition between parts. Part 3b starts exactly where the other one left.

Click here to go there:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0coO2I1wR_U

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• Cecilia
• Bartoli
• Homage
• Maria
• Malibran
• Barcelona
• Concert
• Rossini
• Otello
• Desdemona

[parkerharps]

Nicely performed, but why use a harp c. 1775 for this piece???

[tenore23]

Was the same design still in use? Could it be that?

[schambi333]

in my opinion this is the best version of this piece!!! she is the music!!!

[Vanchy58]

muy hermoso! la parte del arpa le da un toque etereo a este momento musical

[fullenglishandtea]

A real pleasure to meet Cecilia in London last year

[WQ673]

Its a wonderfull musik and this is, for me, enough. Very sad is that no records of the Malibran are here. It was too early for this technic. To hear the Malibran in natura would be very interesting and wonderfull, because she must be the greatest sopran

in her time, and in this time the voices, the conductors, the orchesters and the

operas all, where very great. It was a time of high art., and high culture.

[parkerharps]

Hi there, given that Erard introduced the 'Empire' design, with twice the tension and a thicker tone in 1794, and then the Grecian in 1812, which was double action, and this work was performed in 1816, I think it much more likely that Rossini was writing for the denser sound of the Earard harp, which would make the piece sound much less baroque... ther is nothing wroung with what she is playing, or how she is playing it, but the sound is not what I would expect from Rossini.

[jhtd4]

very lyrical + beautiful, but maybe .... a bit too slow?