Handel - Lascia ch'io pianga [BEST VERSION EVER]

Haendel - Lascia ch'io pianga - From the movie "Farinelli"

handel lascia ch'io pianga piano
handel lascia ch'io pianga castrati
handel lascia ch'io pianga castrato
handel lascia ch'io pianga farinelli
handel lascia ch'io pianga countertenor
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handel lascia ch'io pianga letra traducida
handel lascia ch'io pianga jaroussky
handel lascia ch'io pianga from rinaldo
handel lascia ch'io pianga voices of music
handel lascia ch'io pianga cecilia bartoli

[lyslilylirio]

"Farinelli's singing voice was provided by the Polish soprano Ewa Malas-Godlewska and a countertenor, Derek Lee Ragin, who were recorded separately and then digitally merged to recreate the sound of a castrato." Hopefully this helps! :)

[jennyhan]

I can’t believe some people say that they don’t like the way the actor’s facial expression. It is a film abt a castrated boy.. He expresses what he’s been through since he was stolen his body, mind and love at that moment. Not just a Rinaldo. He couldn’t choose to express to soley cry, sing, or roar but mixed a lot of things. He was stood there his heart beaten and wonded.

[iduntyra]

The quality is pretty good for a recording from the 18th century

[fairfeatherfiend]

Love the peacock quietly opening its tail behind Farinelli. It has nothing to do with anything, it's just eerily beautiful.

[fairus]

The literal English translation from Wikipedia about this song:

Let me weep over
my cruel fate,
and let me sigh for
liberty.

May sorrow shatter
these chains,
for my torments
just out of pity.

[marinainsehnsucht]

Dieser Film hat mich tief berührt. Was für ein aufgezwungenes Schicksal. Diese Arie ging tief unter die Haut.

[mypStyle]

For me. One of the best sorrowful compositions in the world and sung with such passion. Grandiose.

[anaislekapene]

Alexandra fights to hold her tears and Handel collapses at his own opera. Magnificent 👌

[AloutkaKazawa]

I recall entering a music shop and they started to play it. Good speakers. I was shook to the core.

[robertwilson]

What a very great contribution George Frederick Handel made to opera and orchestral music...and baroque English music.

[stephenmoreyprivateyoutube]

This quite extraordinary scene never fails to bring tears to my eyes. In the midst of the beautiful singing, the sublime singing, the politics between the composers Handel, Porpora and Broschi and the bigger political battle between the Prince of Wales and his father George II, there is the magnificently understated scene of the newly castrated boy placed in a bath of milk as blood slowly rises to the top. Such terrible abuse of children, tolerated for so long, is presented in this background of one of the most beautiful pieces of music there is.

[jacobrubio]

I just woke up from a dream where the world was different..I was dancing with a young woman in her living room to the piano rendition of this her mother watched or was playing actually. We quickly yet softly released each others hold with us locking fingers just before quickly letting each other go..as her father made his way down the hallway...and I remember looking at the sheet music which brought me here.... because in my dream I was so entranced by this song and that moment..I've never heard this song before...but this is the song I heard...

[ludovic]

Un film que j'ai découvert à 8 ans, j'en ai 44, toujours ému et ébloui par la pureté et le génie de ses artistes

[truthhurts]

Castratos, the first singing superstars. At quite a human and personal cost!

[Folkert.Cornelius]

Some music sounds so harmonious and natural that it's almost as if it has always existed. The composer was just the first one to write it down.

[aquarexmundy]

Tutto è raffinatezza, eleganza. Bellissimo.

[musicis]

When I first heard this song, saw this film many years ago, it was unlike anything I had heard or seen before. This made me feel something so deeply exhilarating and yet also profoundly sad all at once. I never forgot that feeling. So now, many years later, to find it again here, experiencing it is as if for the first all over. Truly unlike anything I'd ever heard then, or since.

[BeritSaukko]

Yes, this is the best version ever! I love this.

[nglily]

The best ever I have heard, it touches my heart and has soothing effect on recent heart breaking relationship.

[dogdogthegamer]

Lo que daría por vivir esa época aunque fuera por un día, y conocer al hermoso de Mozart... Bueno y a Handel, para darle las gracias por ésta obra