Most achingly-beautiful music

I don’t recall the name of the Pizza place or the Red Lion. But it was the seventies. What can I tell ya? I also lived a couple blocks down from the Biograph theater on Pennsylvania Ave. on Washington Circle, the one with the statue of some dude on a horse. You’re from Jersey? I’m from Jersey. I was born in NJ.

I generally tend not to have much interest in unorthodox arrangements of familiar music, but I find the following arrangement for cello and piano of Puccini's famous aria "O Mio Babbino Caro," from his opera  "Gianni Schicchi," to be quite beautiful.

The talented young performers are pianist Marnie Laird and cellist Cicely Parnas.  Cicely created the arrangement.

Some may recognize the music from the wonderful 1985 film "A Room with a View," in which the aria was sung by the great Kiri Te Kanawa.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAZ2UUlQvbc

Regards,
-- Al

I love the way that Parnas physically interacts with her instrument. At one point she tosses her hair back to increase the intimacy with her neck.