Time stands still: Gigli
Posted in Classical, Time stands still on Jul 12th, 2008 No Comments »
This is a carry over from my other blog, where I have been running a series on moments in music where time seems to stand still. It is Gigli singing Caccini’s Amarilli mia bella. It’s in the top ten of your 100 Best Tunes – and rightly so. Gigli sings this lovely tune perfectly – romantically and inauthentically. At the end he sings Amarilli three times and falls away to the home note. You think it’s all over but it’s not – here time does stand still. It isn’t finished. He lifts his voice into his head and repeats Amarilli as if you weren’t expecting it – and you weren’t. It’s heavenly – and no-one does it quite like Gigli.
