Ah, happiness is
sitting back with a good whisky – such as a Laphroaig or J&B
– and listening to Sandrine Piau singing arias from Handel
oratorios (in English). Handel knew just how to tug the heart
strings, and also knew that his upper-class English audience had a
limited attention span, so that no one aria should last longer than
around five minutes. Start with Handel's music, and throw in Sandrine
Piau's clear soprano voice with a dash of honey; and life is good.
There is a YouTube
interview with Ms Piau about this CD (the CD being titled “Between
Heaven and Earth”). The French pretty-woman interviewer, full of
herself, translates this as “Between 'eaven and ''arth” (entre
le ciel et le coeur). The pretty TV woman then carries on to
expound her concept of the meaning of “between 'eaven and 'eart”.
Ms Piau knows her place, and knows who is the star of this TV
interview, so does not dare contradict; you can almost see her
holding her tongue. This is a CD I play often, and it never fails to
put me in a good mood. With or without Laphroaig or J&B or, as
this evening, sunshine in England.
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