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Initiale / Quanno Nascette Ninno

by Maria Valentina Chirico

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Initiale 04:17
Gieb deine Schönheit immer hin ohne Rechnen und Reden. Du schweigst. Sie sagt für dich: Ich bin. Und kommt in tausendfachem Sinn, kommt endlich über jeden. Rainer Maria Rilke, Das Buch Der Bilder (Berlin, 14.07.1899) ENG : Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation. You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold, comes at long last over everyone. (translated from the German by Edward Snow)
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Quanno nascette Nínno a Bettlemme Era nott' e pareva miezo juorno. Maje le Stelle - lustre e belle Se vedetteno accossì: E a cchíù lucente Jett'a chíammà li Magge all'Uríente. Non c'erano nemmice pe la terra, La pecora pasceva co líone; Co o caprette - se vedette O líupardo pazzeà; L'urzo e o vitíello E co lo lupo 'npace o pecoriello. ENG : When Jesus Baby was born in Bethlehem it was midnight and it seemed midday. Never stars so bright and beautiful were seen before: the brightest of them all went to the East to call the three great Kings. There were no enemies upon the earth, the sheep together with the lion grazed, and the little lamb was viewed with the leopard , playing in the wood; the bear did leap with the cow, and with the wolf at peace with the sheep.

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"The music of Initiale (arranged by Vanja Contu & Maria Valentina Chirico) is based on the verses of poet Rainer Maria Rilke and inspired by the melody of a carillon I owned as a child. This melody created a connection with the invisible and accompanied me into the world of dreams."

"Quanno Nascette Ninno" (arranged by Maria Valentina Chirico & Andrea Penso) is a song born of two wraithlike childhood memories: the rite of the procession in my house, with the candle that my grandmother gave me to celebrate the birth of Jesus, and the first time I listened to the third movement of the first symphony of Gustav Mahler."

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released February 24, 2021

cover photo by Sophie Anne Herin

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