Rossini: L'assedio di Corinto "Giusto Ciel!" - Marilyn Horne

My favorite mezzo soprano Marilyn Horne is singing Rossini's "Giusto Ciel! In Tal Periglio" from L'assedio di Corinto.

Quite possibly the most beautiful woman voice that ever graced human ear..

About the score: As you can tell I am using pdf files for my videos and there is no way to transpose the pdf scores.. So, some of my videos may not be a match.

I hope you can figure out all those scribbles over the score.. Some do match the way M. Horne is singing and some don't. But there is such variation in interpretation of this aria that I doubt there can be a perfect-match edition of this score. Specially if it is Horne who is singing:)) Also, I do not have the choir partition, but one cannot get everything one wants, right? :))

Gioachino Rossini : L'assedio di Corinto "Giusto Ciel! In Tal Periglio"
Libretto: Luigi Balocchi & Alexandre Soumet

Giusto Ciel! in tal periglio
Più consiglio,
più speranza Non ci avanza,
Che piangendo, che gemendo
Implorar la tua pietà, etc

Merciful Lord! In such peril
the only course,
the only hope which remains to us,
is weeping, lamenting
to beg Thy mercy, etc..

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[tiririram7]

is there somebody who have the scores of this aria with the recitativo

[civileso]

Hmm.. After a long search, I could only find the score for the aria alone, not the recitative..

[mandador]

you have to doing this alot put just one take m out

[civileso]

why? there are 3 different singers..

[pollione86]

Che musica sublime!

[Schubert958]

Thanks! Absolutely magical, wow.

[jenson7720]

Her Ah vowels are the most beautiful ive heard at 1.45...SOOOOOOOOOOO BEAUTIFUL!!!

[cantorandopera]

Another reminder of why Ms Horne was considered one of the greatest singers of all time.

[mariasarda]

Parfait.

[FK11238]

to continue from the previous post,... Horne was the first choice for her role while the role of Pamira was first offered to Caballe, she declined, then to Scotto who accepted but had to bow out due to her falling pregnant and then it was offered to Sills. Mickelson had prepared cadenzas and other variations for each three sopranos according to their capabilities and what they considered showed their talents off best. The way it used to be done and fascinating too see.

[FK11238]

The person that did the revision and nearly all of the cadenzas and embellishments was Randolph Mickelson who at that time had been working with Joan Sutherland and had shepherded Caballe's Rossini rarities album. The documentation that I have seen regarding L'Assedio di Corinto at La Scala is vast and too long to go into here.

[Goatoftheforest]

One of the most beautiful, deep, and moving pieces of music I have ever heard.

[yglofmi]

Yes. she did. At La Scala, with Beverly Sills, Justino Diaz and Thomas Schippers on the podium (April 1969).

[erin129]

i'm in tears. thank you for sharing.

[primohomme]

Where's this recording from? Did she ever sing the full role?