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Music
Pietro Mascagni
Text
Guido Menasci
Completed
1912
Scoring & Form
For voice and piano. 1912 or 1913?
Published Editions
Musiche Vocali Italiane da Camera VIII

Poem & English Translation

Piccina bruna, lo sai perch’è sì pallida la luna?
Little brunette, do you know why the moon is so pale?
La luna è il cuore d’una ragazza bella come un fiore.
V’abitava l’amore ed era un sole!
Quando l’amor fuggì, il cuore impallidì: l’accolse il cielo.
Ma tra il notturno velo, il cuor che s’addolora, guarda la terra ancora, e più si discolora, e più si discolora!
The moon is the heart of a girl beautiful like a flower.
Love inhabited her, and it was a sun!
When love left her, the heart became pale: the sky became its new home.
But in the nocturnal veil, the suffering heart still watches the earth, and becomes paler, and becomes paler!
Piccina, ormai perché la luna è pallida lo sai!
Little brunette, now I know why the moon is pale!

Italian text by Guido Menasci; English translation by Erik Bruchez (The Unknown Mascagni).

Audio Excerpts (1)

La luna · Recording #507384  — March 20, 2004, Roosevelt, New Jersey
Alan Mallach (Piano) · Cheri Rose Katz (Mezzo Soprano)

Recordings (3)

Cataloged recordings of La luna
CoverPerformance Date & PlaceRecording & CastLabel / CodeFormat
July 1995
Sala Ceccherini, Florence
Liriche per Canto e Pianoforte
Anastasia Tomaszewska-Schepis (Soprano), Angel Rodrigues (Tenor), Fausta Cianti (Piano)
Bongiovanni GB 2235-2CD
April 2001
Auditorium Aragonite, Manno, Switzerland
Studio
Pietro Mascagni - Melodies and Songs
Fausto Tenzi (Tenor), Roberto Negri (Piano)
Arts 47636-2CD
March 20, 2004
Roosevelt, New Jersey
Live
The Unknown Mascagni♪ Audio
Alan Mallach (Piano), Cheri Rose Katz (Mezzo Soprano)
[Private] N/ACD

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