“Ti salverò da ogni malinconia.”
Category: Music
You’re the Best
The Way I Feel Inside
O mio babbino caro
I don’t listen to a lot of classical music, but this instrumental version of “O mio babbino caro,” with violin by Joshua Bell, came on while I was driving today and made me cry. Lovely.
Nunca vas a comprender
(You) Got What I Need
On Raglan Road
A couple of weekends ago, I attended a music festival that involved walking up and down neighborhood streets and listening to local artists play their songs from people’s front porches. One of the bands I enjoyed was a group called Emigrant’s Wake, a self-described “Celtic rock band … singing songs about missing Ireland.”
Among the pieces on their set list was “On Raglan Road.” I first heard this song years ago, and the poetic lyrics (“Let grief be a fallen leaf at the dawning of the day”; “Oh, I loved too much, and by such, by such, is happiness thrown away”) still sound as lovely as ever to me.