Gardens in March
Posted in Canzone on Oct 27th, 2008 No Comments »
In my previous post I paid homage to Jacques Brel, a singer of intense power and sincerity. Here is another singer who grabs you by the lapels and won’t let you go. It is the Italian singer Battisti. This is his song - I Giardini in Marzo. It starts gently, elegiacally, where he remembers his mother, how she used to dress; how he was at school, yearning to be free; and the evening you called ….
Then the chorus. Here we float away from these memories; he asks what day and time it is and tells us that we must live now, in this time, fully. His hand trembles no more. In his soul the heavens have opened and here in his melancholy he sees everything filled with love. Courage returns.
Listen to how he sings it.
