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Giovanni Mascellaro - Kissed by the angels

2009-08-06T04:35:00.000-07:00

Music by Giovanni Mascellaro

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Performed by the author
Categoria: Musica

Giovanni Mascellaro - Far from my eyes

2009-02-08T03:37:00.000-08:00

Far from my eyes - Music by Giovanni Mascellaro

Performed by the author

Giovanni Mascellaro - OnlyTime (Enya)

2009-01-26T00:39:00.000-08:00

Only Time is surely one of the most

spellbinding songs by Enya

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro (Piano and electronic organ)********************************************************

Lyrics

Only Time

Who can say where the road goes

Where the day flows, only time

And who can say if your love grows

As your heart chose, only time

Who can say why your heart sighs

As your love flies, only time

And who can say why your heart cries

When your love lies, only time

Who can say when the roads meet

That love might be in your heart

And who can say when the day sleeps

If the night keeps all your heart

Night keeps all your heart

Who can say if your love grows

As your heart chose - Only time

And who can say where the road goes

Where the day flows, only time

Who knows? Only time

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Italian translation:

ONLY TIME

Solo Il Tempo

Chi può dire dove finiscono le strade

dove i giorni iniziano,solo il tempo

e chi puo dire se il tuo amore aumenta

quando il cuore fa la sua scelta,solo il tempo.

Chi puo dire perchè il tuo amore rimpiange

ciò da cui il tuo cuore è fuggito

e chi puo dire perchè il tuo cuore piange

quando l'amore fa la sua scelta,solo il tempo

Chi può dire se quando le strade s'incontreranno

questo amore sarà nel tuo cuore

e chi puo dire quando i giorni finiscono

se la notte trattiene tutto il tuo cuore

La notte trattiene tutto il tuo cuore

Chi può dire se il tuo amore aumenta

quando il cuore fa la sua scelta -Solo il tempo

E chi può dire dove finiscono le strade

dove iniziano i giorni... Chi sa?solo il tempo

Giovanni Mascellaro - Watermark (Enya)

2009-01-15T06:01:00.000-08:00

One of Enya's most famous songs.

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro -from S.Rachmaninov Piano Concerto n.2

2009-01-02T17:18:00.001-08:00

Abridged, arranged and performed
by Giovanni Mascellaro

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Giovanni Mascellaro - My Way

2008-10-27T10:53:00.001-07:00

MY WAY (Claude François-Paul Anka)

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And now, the end is near

And so I face the final curtain

My friend, I'll say it clear

I'll state my case, of which I'm certain

I've lived a life that's full

I've traveled each and ev'ry highway

But more, much more than this

I did it my way

Regrets,

I've had a few

But then again, too few to mention

I did what I had to do

And saw it through without exemption

I planned each charted course

Each careful step along the byway

But more, much more than this

I did it my way

Yes, there were times,

I'm sure you knew

When I bit off more than I could chew

But through it all, when there was doubt

I ate it up and spit it out

I faced it all and I stood tall

And did it my way

I've loved,

I've laughed and cried

I've had my fill; my share of losing

And now, as tears subside

I find it all so amusing

To think I did all that

And may I say, not in a shy way

"No, oh no not me

I did it my way"

For what is a man, what has he got?

If not himself, then he has naught

To say the things he truly feels

And not the words of one who kneels

The record shows I took the blows

And did it my way!

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Love is a many-splendored thing

2008-10-26T10:30:00.000-07:00

Music by Sammy Fain and lyrics by Paul Francis Webster.

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Love is a many splendored thing

It's the April rose that only grows in the early spring

Love is nature's way of giving a reason to be living

The golden crown that makes a man a king

Once on a high and windy hill

In the morning mist two lovers kissed and the world stood still

Then your fingers touched my silent heart and taught it how to sing

Yes, true love's a many splendored thing

Once on a high and windy hill

In the morning mist two lovers kissed and the world stood still

Then your fingers touched my silent heart and taught it how to sing

Yes, true love's a many splendored thing.

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - People

2008-10-25T09:00:00.000-07:00

PEOPLE (Music by Jule Styne. Lyrics by Bob Merril.)

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Lyrics

People
People who need people
Are the luckiest people in the world,
We're children, needing other
children
And yet letting our grown-up pride
Hide all the need inside,
Acting more like children
Than children.
Lovers are very special people,
They're the luckiest people
In the world.
With one person,
one very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you were half,
Now you're whole.
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person
Who needs people.
People who need people
Are the luckiest people
In the world!
With one person,
one very special person
A feeling deep in your soul
Says you were half,
Now you're whole.
No more hunger and thirst
But first be a person
Who needs people.
People who need people
Are the luckiest people
In the world!

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Yesterday

2008-10-24T11:48:00.000-07:00

YESTERDAY (Lennon/McCartney)

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Yesterday,

all my troubles seemed so far away.

Now it looks as though they're here to stay.

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be,

There's a shadow hanging over me,

Oh, yesterday came suddenly.

Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say.

I said something wrong,

Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday,

love was such an easy game to play.

Now I need a place to hide away.

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

Why she had to go I don't know she wouldn't say.

I said something wrong,

Now I long for yesterday.

Yesterday, love was such an easy game to play.

Now I need a place to hide away.

Oh, I believe in yesterday.

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Greensleeves

2008-10-24T09:23:00.001-07:00

A widely-believed (but completely unproven) legend is that it was composed by Henry VIII for his lover and future queen consort Anne Boleyn. Anne rejected Henry's attempts to seduce her. This rejection is apparently referred to in the song, when the writer's love "cast me off discourteously."

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Smoke gets in your eyes

2008-10-24T06:02:00.000-07:00

SMOKE GETS IN YOUR EYES
Music by Jerome Kern Lyrics by Otto Harbach
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They asked me how I knew
my true love was true, ah, ah.
I of course replied,
"Something here inside cannot be denied."
They said, "Someday you'll find
all who love are blind, ah, ah.
When your heart's on fire,
you must realize
smoke gets in your eyes."

So I chaffed them and I gayly laughed,
to think they could doubt my love.
Yet today, my love has flown away:
I am without my love.

Now laughing friends deride
tears I cannot hide, ah, ah.
So I smile and say,
"When a lovely flame dies,
smoke gets in your eyes,
smoke gets in your eyes."

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro- Anonimo Veneziano (A.Marcello's adagio)

2008-10-23T08:29:00.000-07:00

Arranged and performed by Giovanni Mascellaro.

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"Adagio" from Alessandro Marcello Oboe Concerto in D minor

Giovanni Mascellaro - West Side Story - "Tonight"

2008-10-22T06:55:00.000-07:00

West Side Story is a musical by Arthur Laurents (book),Leonard Bernstein (music ),and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics).

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Tonight lyrics

MARIA

Only you, you're the only thing I'll see forever

In my eyes in my words and in everything I do

Nothing else but you

Ever

TONY

And there's nothing for me but Maria

Every sight that I see is Maria

MARIA

Tony, Tony

TONY

Always you, every thought I'll ever know

Everywhere I go you'll be

TONY & MARIA

All the world is only you and me

MARIA

Tonight, tonight

It all began tonight

I saw you and the world went away

Tonight, tonight

There's only you tonight

What you are, what you do, what you say

TONY

Today, all day I had the feeling

A miracle would happen

I know now I was right

TONY & MARIA

For here you are

And what was just a world is a star

Tonight

Tonight, tonight

The world is full of light

With suns and moons all over the place

Tonight, tonight

The world is wild and bright

Going mad

Shooting sparks into space

Today, the world was just an address

A place for me to live in

No better than all right

But here you are

And what was just a world is a star

Tonight

Good night, good night

Sleep well and when you dream

Dream of me

Tonight

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - "Prelude" by Pino Calvi

2008-10-22T00:00:00.000-07:00

Arranged and performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

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Music composed by Pino Calvi

Giovanni Mascellaro - "Casta Diva" from Norma

2008-10-21T09:00:00.000-07:00

"Casta Diva", Norma's aria by Vincenzo Bellini

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Arranged and performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Anema e core

2008-10-21T08:00:00.000-07:00

ANEMA E CORE (With all my heart and soul)

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A Music by Salvatore "Salve" D'Esposito with Italian lyrics by Tito Manlio , 1954

English lyrics by Manny Curtis and Harry Akst

I've got a yearning to caress you,

One thought keeps burning in my soul,

A hungry yearning to possess you,

It's far beyond control!

I want your love for now, forever,

I want you heart and soul!

My life, I'd give to you,

Anema e core . . .

I only live for you,

Anema e core . . .

I have but one desire,

And it's to love you,

With all my heart, with all my soul,

My whole life through!

From stars I'll make your crown,

And kneel before you,

I pray you'll take my hand,

For I adore you!

Open up the doors leading to heaven,

A heaven mine and yours,

Anema e core . . .

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Arrivederci

2008-10-20T10:37:00.001-07:00

ARRIVEDERCI

music by Umberto Bindi

lyrics by Giorgio Calabrese

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Arrivederci,

dammi la mano e sorridi

senza piangere

arrivederci

per una volta ancora

è bello fingere

abbiamo sfidato l'amore

quasi per gioco

ed ora fingiam di lasciarci

soltanto per poco

arrivederci

esco dalla tua vita

salutiamoci

arrivederci

questo sarà l'addio

ma non pensiamoci

con una stretta di mano

da buoni amici sinceri

ci sorridiamo per dirci

arrivederci

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Elvira Madigan's theme

2008-10-19T15:30:00.000-07:00

The "andante" from Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21 in C is the theme from the romantic film "Elvira Madigan"

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

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Wikipedia:

Elvira Madigan (December 4, 1867 July 20, 1889) was Danish tightrope walker and trick rider, whose illicit affair and dramatic death at the hands of her lover were the subject of a famous Swedish film from 1967.She was born Hedvig Antoinette Isabella Eleonore Jensen in Flensburg in northern Germany. Her mother was a Norwegian circus performer and her father a Danish stablemaster. Her mother later lived with the American circus manager John Madigan.While performing in Sweden with her stepfather's circus she met a Swedish cavalry officer, Lieutenant Count Bengt Edvard Sixten Sparre (born September 27, 1854). Sparre and Madigan fell in love, but their love was impossible, partly due to the fact that Sparre was married and the father of two children. After exchanging love letters for one year they ran away together to Denmark in June 1889, where they spent about one month. When they ran out of money, they packed a picnic basket, went out to the Nørreskov ("North forest") on the island Tåsinge, Denmark, and had a last meal, after which Sparre shot Madigan and himself with his service revolver. Madigan was 21 years old and Sparre 35 years old. It was 20 July, 1889.Madigan's and Sparre's grave is situated on the cemetery of Landet on Tåsinge and is still today visited by tourists and lovers from all over the world. Their tragic love story has some resemblance to the Austrian Mayerling drama, where Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria and his lover took their lives in January 1889.

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Giovanni Mascellaro - Limelight (Luci della ribalta)

2008-10-18T12:00:00.000-07:00

Limelight is a 1952 film written, directed by and starring Charles Chaplin
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(1972 Oscar for Best Original Dramatic Score)
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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro
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Giovanni Mascellaro - Love Story

2008-10-17T11:48:00.001-07:00

L O V E S T O R Y

Music by Francis Lai (1970 Best Original Score Oscar).
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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro
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Love Story (1970) is a sentimental, romantic tearjerker film from director Arthur Hiller about a tragic couple.The melodramatic soap-opera, tremendously popular and a financial success (the top-earning film of the year) but panned by critics for its sappy content, was based upon Erich Segal's best-selling short novel of the same name.

Giovanni Mascellaro - Night and Day

2008-10-12T12:00:00.000-07:00

NIGHT AND DAY by Cole Porter

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Lyrics:

Like the beat beat beat of the tom-tom

When the jungle shadows fall

Like the tick tick tock of the stately clock

As it stands against the wall

Like the drip drip drip of the raindrops

When the summer shower is through

So a voice within me keeps repeating

You, you, you

Night and day, you are the one

Only you beneath the moon or under the sun

Whether near to me, or far

It's no matter darling where you are

I think of you

Day and night, night and day, why is it so

That this longing for you follows wherever I go

In the roaring traffic's boom

In the silence of my lonely room

I think of you

Day and night, night and day

Under the hide of me

There's an oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me

And this torment won't be through

Until you let me spend my life making love to you

Day and night, night and day

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Strangers in the night

2008-10-11T12:30:00.000-07:00

Strangers in the night

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By Kaempfert/Singleton/Snyder

Strangers in the night

exchanging glances

Wondring in the night

What were the chances

we'd be sharing love

Before the night was through.

Something in your eyes was so inviting,

Something in you smile was so exciting,

Something in my heart,

Told me I must have you.

Strangers in the night,

two lonely people

We were strangers in the night

Up to the moment

When we said our first hello.

Little did we know

Love was just a glance away,

A warm embracing dance away and

-Ever since that night weve been together.

Lovers at first sight, in love forever.

It turned out so right,

For strangers in the night.

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performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - When I fall in love

2008-10-10T18:30:00.000-07:00

Words and music by Edward Heyman and Victor Young

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WHEN I FALL IN LOVE

When I fall in love it will be forever

Or I'll never fall in love

In a restless world like this is

Love is ended before it's begun

And too many moonlight kisses

Seem to cool in the warmth of the sun

When I give my heart it will be completely

Or I'll never give my heart

And the moment I can feel that you feel that way too

Is when I fall in love with you.

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - What a wonderful world

2008-10-09T11:21:00.000-07:00

WHAT A WONDERFUL WORLD

I see trees of green, red roses too

I see them bloom for me and you.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

I see skies of blue and clouds of white.

The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

The colors of the rainbow so pretty in the sky

are also on the faces of people going by.

I see friends shaking hands saying how do you do.

They're really saying I love you.

I hear babies crying, I watch them grow.

They'll learn much more than I'll ever know.

And I think to myself what a wonderful world.

Yes I think to myself what a wonderful world.

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Love me tender

2008-10-09T11:17:00.000-07:00

words & music by V.Matson-E.Presley

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LOVE ME TENDER

Love me tender,

Love me sweet,

Never let me go.

You have made my life complete,

And I love you so.

Love me tender,

Love me true,

All my dreams fulfilled.

For my darlin I love you,

And I always will.

When at last my dreams came true

Darling this I know

Happiness will follow you

Everywhere I go.

Love me tender,

Love me sweet,

all my dreams fulfilled

For my darling I love you,

And I always will

Love me tender,

Love me sweet,

Never let me go.

You have made my life complete,

And I love you so

Love me tender,love me true,

All my dreams fulfilled,

For my darling I love you,

And I always will.

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - I left my heart in San Francisco

2008-10-05T08:22:00.000-07:00

Music by G. Cory, lyrics by D. Cross.

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I left my heart in San Francisco

high on a hill, it calls to me.

To be where little cable cars

climb halfway to the stars!

The morning fog may chill the air:

I don't care!

My love waits there in San Francisco

Above the blue and windy sea

When I come home to you,San Francisco,

your golden sun will shine for me!

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - My secret love

2008-10-02T07:26:00.000-07:00

My Secret Love

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Once I had a secret love

that lived within the heart of me

all too soon my secret love

became impatient to be free

So I told a friendly star

the way that dreamers often do

just how wonderful you are

and why I'm so in love with you

now I shout it from the highest hill

I even told the golden dafodill

at last my heart's an open door

and my secret love's no secret anymore

now I shout it from the highest hill

I even told you the golden dafodill

at last my heart's an open door

and my secret love's

no secret anymore

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Una lunga storia d'amore

2008-10-01T10:28:00.000-07:00

UNA LUNGA STORIA D'AMORE

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Music and lyrics by Gino Paoli

Quando ti ho vista arrivare ,
bella così come sei
non mi sembrava possibile che
tra tanta gente
che tu t'accorgessi di me

E' stato come volare
qui dentro camera mia
come nel sonno
più dentro di te
io ti conosco da sempre
e ti amo da mai

Fai
finta di non lasciarmi mai
anche se
dovrà finire prima o poi
questa lunga storia d'amore
ora è già tardi
ma è presto se tu te ne vai

Fai
finta che solo per noi due
passerà
il tempo ma non passerà
questa lunga storia d'amore
ora è già tardi
ma è presto se tu te ne vai
E' troppo tardi
ma è presto
se tu te ne vai
ma è presto
se tu te ne vai

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Tenderly

2008-10-01T06:30:00.000-07:00

TENDERLY

(Words and Music by Gross and Lawrence)

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The evening breeze caressed the trees tenderly

The trembling trees embraced the breeze tenderly

Then you and I came wandering by

And lost in a sigh were we

The shore was kissed by sea and mist tenderly

I can't forget how two hearts met breathlessly

Your arms opened wide and closed me inside

You took my lips, you took my love so tenderly

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Vivrò

2008-09-29T15:00:00.000-07:00

VIVRO'

Music by Alain Barrière

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Lyrics

Vivro'

altri amori vedro',

diro' altre volte amo te,

sara' un ricordo di piu',

sara' come e' stato per noi.

Ormai

so che sempre e' cosi',

vorrei che finissse con te,

ma poi tutto continuera',

vivro' anche senza di te.

Avrai

altri amori anche tu,

e io non saro' piu' con te,

anch'io la mia mano daro',

a chi al tuo posto sara',

perché questa vita e' cosi'.

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performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Il mondo

2008-09-29T12:30:00.000-07:00

Il Mondo by Jimmy Fontana

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Lyrics

No, stanotte amore

Non ho più pensato ha te

Ho aperto gli occhi

Per guardare intorno a me

E intorno a me

Girava il mondo come sempre

Gira, il mondo gira

Nello spazio senza fine

Con gli amori appena nati

Con gli amori già finiti

Con la gioia e col dolore

Della gente come me

Un mondo

Soltanto adesso,

io ti guardo

Nel tuo silenzio io mi perdo

E sono niente accanto a te

Il mondo

Non si é fermato mai un momento

La notte insegue sempre il giorno

Ed il giorno verrà

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Io che amo solo te

2008-09-28T06:00:00.000-07:00

IO CHE AMO SOLO TE

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Music and lyrics by Sergio Endrigo

C'è gente che ha avuto mille cose

Tutto il bene, tutto il male del mondo

Io ho avuto solo te

E non ti perderò, non ti lascerò

Per cercare nuove avventure

C'è gente che ama mille cose

E si perde per le strade del mondo

Io che amo solo te

Io mi fermerò e ti regalerò

Quel che resta della mia gioventù

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Momenti di gloria (Chariots of Fire)

2008-09-26T08:08:00.000-07:00

Music by Vangelis

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

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Based on a true story, Chariots of Fire is the internationally acclaimed Oscar-winning drama of two very different men who compete as runners in the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson), a serious Christian Scotsman, believes that he has to succeed as a testament to his undying religious faith. Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), is a Jewish Englishman who wants desperately to be accepted and prove to the world that Jews are not inferior. The film crosscuts between each man's life as he trains for the competition, fueled by these very different desires.

Giovanni Mascellaro - Unchained Melody (Ghost)

2008-09-25T01:11:00.000-07:00

UNCHAINED MELODY

"Ghost" Soundtrack

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Oh, my love

my darling

I've hungered for your touch

a long lonely time

and time goes by so slowly

and time can do so much

are you still mine?

I need your love

God speed your love to me

Lonely rivers flow to the sea,

to the sea

to the open arms of the sea

lonely rivers sigh 'wait for me, wait for me'

I'll be coming home wait for me

Oh, my love

my darling

I've hungered for your touch

a long lonely time

and time goes by so slowly

and time can do so much

are you still mine?

I need your love

God speed your love to me

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performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - West Side Story - "Maria"

2008-09-24T06:12:00.000-07:00

West Side Story is a musical by Arthur Laurents (book),

Leonard Bernstein (music ),and Stephen Sondheim (lyrics).

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MARIA (lyrics)

The most beautiful sound

I ever heard

All the beautiful sounds of the world

in a single word

Maria

I just met a girl named Maria

And suddenly that name

Will never be the same

To me

Maria

I just kissed a girl named Maria

And suddenly I found

How wonderful a sound

Can be

Maria

Say it loud and there's music playing

Say it soft and it's almost like praying

Maria

I'll never stop saying

Maria

Maria, Maria...Maria

Say it loud and there's music playing

Say it soft and it's almost like praying

MariaI'll never stop saying

MariaThe most beautiful sound I ever heard

Maria

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Chopin op.10 - Tristesse

2008-09-23T09:33:00.000-07:00

(Palma de Mallorca)

F.Chopin - Op.10 - Tristesse

performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Rhapsody in Blue

2008-09-22T10:10:00.000-07:00

From "Rhapsody in Blue" by George Gershwin

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abridged and performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

ED INFINE ...

2008-09-22T08:35:00.000-07:00

Ed infine lontani,

divisi dal “sempre”;

senza l’ansia di dover

più sapere del domani o del quando.

Mai storia fu più densa

di nascosta e bruciante passione.

Resta solo il ricordo:

un’amara memoria di giorni

in cui tu, come angelica grazia,

mi ispiravi musiche e rime

che d’incanto nascevan già tue.

E mentre ormai,

tutto ciò che fu gioia

si converte in dolore,

m'appari beffarda

e, compiaciuta, m'irridi

d’aver spento il mio cuore!

Giovanni Mascellaro - Sonata n.2 in Eb M

2008-09-20T04:40:00.000-07:00

Sonata n.2 in Eb M

Music by Giovanni Mascellaro

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performed by the author

Giovanni Mascellaro - F.Liszt's Liebestraume

2008-09-19T23:58:00.000-07:00

Franz Liszt- Sogno d'amore

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performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - F.Chopin's Nocturne Op.9 No.2

2008-09-16T13:39:00.000-07:00

Chopin's Nocturne in EbM Op.9 No.2

performed by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Sonata n.1 in E flat

2008-08-27T17:40:00.000-07:00

Sonata n.1 in E flat

Music by Giovanni Mascellaro

performed by the Author

Giovanni Mascellaro - And I love you so

2008-08-23T09:45:00.000-07:00

Music and lyrics by Don McLean

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And I love you so.

people ask me how,

How I've lived till now.

I tell them I don't know.I

guess they understand

How lonely life has been.

But life began again

The day you took my hand.

And, yes, I know how lonely life can be.

The shadows follow me, and the night won't set me free.

But I don't let the evening get me down

Now that you're around me.

And you love me, too.

Your thoughts are just for me;

You set my spirit free,

I'm happy that you do.

The book of life is brief

And once a page is read,

All but love is dead.

That is my belief.

And, yes, I know how lonely life can be.

The shadows follow me, and the night won't set me free.

But I don't let the evening bring me down

Now that you're around me.

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sung by Giovanni Mascellaro

Giovanni Mascellaro - Les feuilles mortes

2008-08-21T07:40:00.000-07:00

LES FEUILLES MORTES

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paroles: Jacques Prévert

musique: Joseph Kosma

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Oh! je voudrais tant que tu te souviennes

Des jours heureux où nous étions amis

En ce temps-là la vie était plus belle,

Et le soleil plus brûlant qu'aujourd'hui

Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle

Tu vois, je n'ai pas oublié...

Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle,

Les souvenirs et les regrets aussi

Et le vent du nord les emporte

Dans la nuit froide de l'oubli.

Tu vois, je n'ai pas oublié

La chanson que tu me chantais.

C'est une chanson qui nous ressemble

Toi, tu m'aimais et je t'aimais

Et nous vivions tous deux ensemble

Toi qui m'aimais, moi qui t'aimais

Mais la vie sépare ceux qui s'aiment

Tout doucement, sans faire de bruit

Et la mer efface sur le sable

Les pas des amants désunis.

Les feuilles mortes se ramassent à la pelle,

Les souvenirs et les regrets aussi

Mais mon amour silencieux et fidèle

Sourit toujours et remercie la vie

Je t'aimais tant, tu étais si jolie,

Comment veux-tu que je t'oublie?

En ce temps-là, la vie était plus belle

Et le soleil plus brûlant qu'aujourd'hui

Tu étais ma plus douce amie

Mais je n'ai que faire des regrets

Et la chanson que tu chantais

Toujours, toujours je l'entendrai!

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Performed by Giovanni Mascellaro (electronic piano)

Giovanni Mascellaro - My Angel of Love

2008-08-03T12:00:00.000-07:00

Music and lyrics by Giovanni Mascellaro

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Beautiful woman, you are my angel of love.

I'm really slave of your charms and

you're so powerful and divine

that with only one word you can ease all my pains.

Stay always by my side

and you'll feel

how wildly my heart beats

when you hold my hand and

warmly kiss my lips,

my adored angel of love.

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P.S.

Just got a call from God:

He said He lost an angel.

Shsh! I didn't tell Him where you were,

'cause I wanted to keep you forever !

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Performed by the author (electronic piano)

Giovanni Mascellaro - If you...(Si asì...)

2008-07-21T10:20:00.000-07:00

Music and lyrics by Giovanni Mascellaro

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IF YOU...

If you decided so, do as you like!

Why not erase then my face, my voice from your memory

as well as the words I never told you and you claimed to understand?

But never, I say that never will you be able to extinguish

the melodies I composed for you 'cause you have no power over them.

My music will remain eternally cool to your ears

even though you should happen to listen to it again long after

because it belongs to you and it will be yours forever!

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SI ASI...

Si asì lo decidiste, haz lo que quieras!

¿Porquè entonces no borras mi rostro y mi voz de tus recuerdos ?

Olvida tambièn aquellas palabras que nunca dije,

pero que tù parecias comprender.

De algo puedes estar segura!

Jamàs podras borrar las melodìas que compuse para tì!

No tienes ningùn poder sobre ellas.

Mi mùsica seguira siendo siempre fresca para tus oidos;

asì solo la escuches de nuevo dentro de muchos años.

!Porque te pertenece y serà siempre tuya !

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SE...

Se lo hai deciso, cancella pure dalla memoria

il mio volto, la mia voce, persino le parole

che non ti ho detto e che tu hai invece intuito!

Ma non potrai mai spegnere l

e melodie che ho composto per te:

non hai alcun potere per riuscirvi!

E' musica che resterà giovane al tuo orecchio

- anche se dovessi riascoltarla dopo anni -

perchè è "tua" e ti apparterrà per sempre!

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Performed by G.Mascellaro (electronic piano)

AMORE

2008-03-08T18:05:00.000-08:00

Profumo di zagara sale

e lieve per l'aer si spande;

mi fermo, lasso viandante,

all'argenteo rivo che scorre

e, felice, ne ascolto il suo verso.

Vibran le corde d'Orfeo

e, mosse dal soffio di Pan,

le foglie e le messi,

con un canto soave e sublime,

fanno giungere al cielo

la voce che più ad esso ci lega:

"amore"!

Giovanni Mascellaro

AYER

2007-10-27T12:36:00.000-07:00

Ayer me sentiste

rozando tu cuerpo

como invasor invisible,

sutilmente impalpable.

Y mis dedos se convirtieron

en tus manos apasionadas.

Abrieron y cerraron puertas,

asaltaron tus caminos oscuros,

incendiaron profundidades.

Y, en el momento del delirio,

de la dicha conseguida,

Sólo dije tu nombre ...

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Giovanni Mascellaro

TUS OJOS

2007-07-23T14:23:00.000-07:00

Qué otros ojos...podrian compararse

con tus ardientes ojos negros?

A ellos se agarra todo mi ser;

ojos suaves en el amor...

Qué otros ojos podrian

compararse con los tuyos?

Qué bien conoces el arte

de hacerte amar y cuanto me encantas

tambien cuando te vuelves celosa...

y me atormentas sin cesar.

Te adoro y me gusta todo lo tuyo,

tu ira y tu amor...

Tranquiliza tu alma:

siempre estaré a tu lado

porqué eres mi sueno realizado,

y aunque me cueste la vida...

vivré por hacerte feliz.

Mi dulce amante, siempre diré:

"Mara Isabel, te amo ! "

Giovanni Mascellaro

FIUME

2007-04-30T20:43:00.000-07:00

Scende il fiume e corre e ride e canta,

contento d'esser tanto corteggiato;

tra tuoni e lampi, al sole è legato

e la terra l'abbraccia e se ne vanta.

Come al passaggio d'una reliquia santa

dalla natura viene salutato,

e par che tutto abbia creato

un ruscel di poesia che l'alma incanta.

Tu sei la stessa, fiume di bellezza:

lampi sono i tuoi occhi che mi hanno abbagliato,

terra questo mio cuore e tu sei la sua ricchezza...

Tu santa ed io "devoto" inginocchiato,

tu, fiume tutto amore e poesia,

che vita dai al mio cuore assetato.

Giovanni Mascellaro

ODIO

2007-02-18T08:57:00.000-08:00

Troppa la rabbia per tutto ciò che ci separa e ti ricorda...

Odio questa distanza e questo tempo,

odio il freddo del tuo clima ed il calore del mio sole;

odio questa nostalgia e questo vuoto senza fine

come la tenerezza che m'hai profuso...

Odio la mia musica e la poesia dei nostri incontri;

odio il tuo amore e le tue incoerenze

e questo dolore che mi fa sragionare.

Odio questo istante, il domani e il sempre

e questa mia memoria che mi impedisce di dimenticare...

Giovanni Mascellaro

LASCIAMI...

2007-02-17T12:50:00.000-08:00

Lasciami...
svegliare i tuoi sentimenti addormentati
con i miei versi e la mia musica di una speranza...
Lasciami aprire il tuo cuore senza frapporre ostacoli
mentre siedo sull'orlo del suo abisso senza fine
Lascia risorgere le tue emozioni appassite
attraverso le mie sciocche risate
e le mie lacrime di luce ed ombra.
Rivivranno così le tue sensazioni dimenticate
con il mio stesso delirio, con la tua sensualità ed il tuo istinto...
Lasciami invadere i tuoi giorni con questo amore lontano,
senza promesse, senza alcuna meta
che vive adesso nell'anima tua.

Giovanni Mascellaro

COMME UNE FOIS

2006-05-03T18:30:00.000-07:00

Comme une fois,

nous serons toujours ensemble,

comme une fois,

c'est à toi que je devrai toute ma vie.

Auprès de moi

tu trouveras le feu qui brûle:

auprès de toi

je comprendrai qu'il n'y a de vie,

aucune vie sans toi.

Dans me bras , comme jadis,

le paradis nous sourira si bien

et dans ton coeur , tu comprendras

qu'il n' y a que moi

dans l'Univers pour toi.

Tu pourras bien faire sans moi

le tour du monde,

mais je serai à tout moment

auprès de toi avec mon âme.

FRA TANTA GENTE

2006-04-30T22:35:00.000-07:00

Guardare te e non poter parlare;

chiudere gli occhi per poter sognare

attimi d'amore..istanti d'infinito.

Sederti accanto e dover finger niente,

come un estraneo di fronte a tanta gente,

ma esser felice di poterti amare tanto.

ACCANTO A TE

2006-04-27T07:35:00.000-07:00

Accanto a te non odo più il sordo rombar del vento;

vicino a te è pace e luce,

mentre sull’arcolaio fiabesco della tua mente

s’avvolgono i tuoi più rosei pensieri.

Accanto a te il silenzio è radioso sorriso

riflesso dai tuoi occhi teneri;

e quando tu mi parli, sento le ali vellutate

della soave gioia che mi inonda...

Vicino a te si spande l’ammaliante profumo dei fiori

che, insospettato, s’ insinua per magia nella mia vita.

Accanto a te tutto diviene dolce ed etereo,

come carezza e rugiada ed alito divino.

VINCENT - STARRY, STARRY NIGHT

2006-04-25T08:43:00.000-07:00

Don McLean

Song: Vincent (Starry, Starry Night)

Starry, starry night.

Paint your palette blue and grey,

Look out on a summer's day,

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul.

Shadows on the hills,

Sketch the trees and the daffodils,

Catch the breeze and the winter chills,

In colors on the snowy linen land.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,

How you suffered for your sanity,

How you tried to set them free.

They would not listen, they did not know how.

Perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry, starry night.

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze,

Swirling clouds in violet haze,

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue.

Colors changing hue, morning field of amber grain,

Weathered faces lined in pain,

Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand.

Now I understand what you tried to say to me,

How you suffered for your sanity,

How you tried to set them free.

They would not listen, they did not know how.

Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you,

But still your love was true.

And when no hope was left in sight

On that starry, starry night,

You took your life, as lovers often do.

But I could have told you, Vincent,

This world was never meant for one

As beautiful as you.

Starry, starry night.

Portraits hung in empty halls,

Frameless head on nameless walls,

With eyes that watch the world and can't forget.

Like the strangers that you've met,

The ragged men in the ragged clothes,

The silver thorn of bloody rose,

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow.

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me,

How you suffered for your sanity,

How you tried to set them free.

They would not listen, they're not listening still.

Perhaps they never will...

Y AQUI ESTOY...

2006-04-16T12:14:00.000-07:00

Y aquí estoy...

Mirando la pantalla silenciosa.

Acariciando tu nombre iluminado,

en un idilio con ese pequeño recuadro

donde tus sentimientos, tus palabras,

aparecieron por arte de magia.

Escucho tu voz a través de ellas,

descifrando intenciones, compartiendo sueños...

Por unos minutos soy parte de tus secretos.

Por unos minutos mi alma te toca.

Por unos minutos tú estás aquì y yo estoy allà.

Después, doy a una tecla precisa y

vuelve a estar cada amor, cada ternura,

cada soledad en su sitio ....

Giovanni Mascellaro

QUID SUPEREST ?

2006-04-12T06:34:00.000-07:00

Qui io ti cerco,

dove si muovono le ombre

ferite dal mio dolore.

Assorto, guardo nella memoria:

i tuoi occhi, accesi nel ricordo,

brillano come luci ferme

nella caligine della mia esistenza...

Rievoco le ore di un passato ormai lontano,

quando travolti da una forza arcana,

capace di innalzarci sino al cielo,

trascendevamo i limiti del mondo

e, soavemente avvinti, col nostro amore

fecondavamo l'universo intero.

Cosa rimane di quegli attimi sublimi ?

Nulla, se non l'amaro vagheggiar di un cuor

che, inerte, assiste al mesto abdicar

delle passate gioie alle crudeli pene

di cui son ora pregni tutti i miei cupi giorni,

scanditi da un'insanabile follia

che ancor mi fa sperar nel tuo ritorno !

Giovanni Mascellaro

MUSICA E MATEMATICA : SOLA MENTE CONCIPIUNTUR...

2006-04-04T08:00:00.000-07:00

Walter Horatio Pater – saggista e critico britannico (1839-1894) –
sosteneva che ogni arte aspira costantemente alla condizione della
musica; ma si può completare questo concetto asserendo che tutte
le scienze tendono ad una condizione matematica.
E ciò perché musica e matematica non sono le cime di due distinte
montagne che rappresentano tutto quanto nell’uomo è imperiosa
istanza di conoscenza e, naturalmente, di libertà.

Entrambe costituiscono, invece, un unico cielo rarefatto ed infinito
dove la rappresentazione simbolica, i numeri o le note o altro, sono
momentanee indicazioni di entità eterne di cui raramente
riusciamo a cogliere preziosi frammenti.
Gli intervalli esistenti fra le note o fra i numeri, così come le relazioni
che emergono dalle strutture musicali o matematiche, sono misteriose
quantità del “tutto” indipendenti da chi le scopre.
Per tale motivo, le relazioni intercorrenti tra i lati di un triangolo
rettangolo preesistevano alla scoperta di Pitagora, così come la musica
preesisteva alle notazioni musicali.
Ma l’espressione precedente, concernente la possibilità di poter cogliere
ogni tanto una parte, va intesa nel senso più riduttivo anche se più esaltante!
Sono infatti molti a lambire quel cielo, ma solo a pochi è concesso penetrarvi
e comprenderne l’intima essenza ovvero quel “ linguaggio” tanto caro a
Léautréamont che egli riferiva alle matematiche severe, un “linguaggio” che
definiva addirittura più dolce del miele.
Non si tratta di essere eletti, ma conoscere la musica, conoscere la matematica,
immergersi totalmente in esse, possederle, comprenderle - in una parola, amarle -
è tutt’altra rarissima cosa che lambirle. Ciò spiega perché molto spesso chi ama

la musica , ama anche la matematica: ritmo (rhuthmòs) e misura (métron) sono

alla base della sublime ed eterna armonia di tutto ciò che ci circonda.