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Cecilia Bartoli – Sacrificium (1) Come axis in average allonde
Cecilia Bartoli == Sacrificium == 01 – NICOLA PORPORA: Come nave in mezzo allonde == Giovanni Antonini (conductor) == Il Giardino Armonico If you are a fan of great, florid singing and/or Cecilia Bartoli, this remarkable set is both self-recommending and beyond criticism. It is devoted to the art of the castrato, those men who were mutilated just at or before puberty if and when their families thought (hoped?) they had enough talent to become great singers and therefore great earners…. Audiences flocked to hear these singers with the lung power and volume of men and the range of women; the procedure stopped their voices from breaking while their bodies continued to grow. They were the highest-paid singers in the world, while at the same time they were reviled, mocked, and adored. Monstrous photos of Bartoli’s head on mutilated statues of men dot the pages of the accompanying booklet. We get it, we get it! As a marketing plan (said to have been Bartoli’s brainchild) it certainly is bizarre. The music is another story entirely. Not all of it is great stuff–Porpora was no Mozart and neither was Francisco Araia–but the performance level of these showpieces raises the simply good and flashy to a level of high art and wonderment, just as it did when the castrati for whom they were written first sang them. And happy to report, Bartoli is in her best voice and not miked too closely (on her Sonnambula recording you could hear her tongue move). The CD opens with a “simile” aria …
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Enforcing Ambition – Setting Goals Beyond the Average and Challenging One’s Sense of Boundaries
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Realism deepens throughout the person’s life, whether it be a deepening desire that must change its target in order to develop, one-love that deepens towards another person, or for example the curious existentialism of self-liberation that liberates the person till the moment of his/her death. These are all still phenomena of something a kind increasing in complexity, and this drive can be placed to goals that are far beyond the average accomplishments, with the confidence and patience of an athlete.
If a person only seizes a day, he/she cannot paint a gallery’s worth of paintings during that day. The paintings of Pablo Picasso gradually accumulated to the extents we may now admire them in, the collected works of William Shakespeare can now be in our bookshelves, amongst other works from a variety of authors because of the cumulating past of literature. Modern psychology can be mean for a creative person, as it sets standards that are supposed to be the boundaries of creation. How much, when, how they should be timed, how much other activities than creative works must be included, and so on, but if we brought Leonardo da Vinci to our time period, such attempts to tame him would be outrageous to him. But in contrast, for Salvador Dali, such analytical processes of his psyche and his ability to immediately paint a masterpiece during his late years before the paralyzing ailment he suffered, would have only been an enjoyment, after all, he is the master of the art of egotism in the extreme.
For any artist, author or philosopher, the fair adjustment of ambition is to set it to produce something monumental during one’s lifetime. By not fearing the unobtainable perfection in skills, one can forge his/her talents and throughout decades of work, and relatively soon without any supernatural interference, one has become able to grasp tasks that were impossible, even unimaginable in the past. A creative individual can never explore the full potential if he/she doesn’t master time in the sense of lifetime being a continuum, of which mental resources can be directed not to just one accomplishment, but to the cumulation of great works of art, science, spirituality and philosophy. If one sets his/her ambitions only to master what is days worth, the ambitions that made the great of the past great in our eyes would never have come to be. What is moment’s worth, is moment’s worth, but if that moment is significant, it can carry an influence throughout a lifetime, and such should be the paintings, other works of art, science, philosophy, spirituality and love towards our muses and loved one’s.
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