''Dalla terra'' is a studio album by Italian singer
Mina, released on 6 October 2000 by
PDU.
Overview
This is the only album in Mina's discography that consist entirely of non-secular music. In album ''Dalla Terra'', Anna Mazzini has made one of the few and first Italian arrangements, starting from some liturgical chants of the Christian tradition. For example, she made a version not for choral groups nor organo, of the Veni Creator Spiritus, without the last three stanzas of the original Latin text (regarding the power against the evil, and the knowledge of the Father God and His Son, beginning from the
Holy Spirit
In Judaism, the Holy Spirit is the divine force, quality, and influence of God over the Universe or over his creatures. In Nicene Christianity, the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost is the third person of the Trinity. In Islam, the Holy Spirit acts as ...
God).
In 2018, ''
Rolling Stone'' placed it on the 3rd place in the list of the most underrated albums of Mina.
Track listing
# ''Magnificat'' - 4:34 -
(Marco Frisina. Lyrics based on " Gospel of Luke")
# ''Voi ch'amate lo criatore'' - 3:40 -
(from "Laudario di Cortona", 13th century)
# ''
Memorare'' - 4:32 -
(Gianni Ferrio
Gianni Ferrio (16 November 1924 – 21 October 2013) was an Italian composer, conductor and music arranger.
Life and career
Born in Vicenza, Ferrio studied at the conservatories of Vicenza and Venice. Starting in the late 1950s, he was active a ...
. Lyrics attributed to Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153))
# ''Quando corpus morietur'' - 3:31 -
(Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Giovanni Battista Draghi (; 4 January 1710 – 16 or 17 March 1736), often referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi (), was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist. His best-known works include his Stabat Mater and the opera ''L ...
(1710-1736). From "Stabat Mater
The Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Christian hymn to Mary, which portrays her suffering as Jesus Christ's mother during his crucifixion. Its author may be either the Franciscan friar Jacopone da Todi or Pope Innocent III.Sabatier, Paul ''Life o ...
)
# ''Omni die'' - 3:02 -
(Anonymous writer, 12th century)
# ''Quanno nascette ninno'' - 4:33 -
(Alphonsus Maria de Liguori
Alphonsus Liguori, CSsR (27 September 1696 – 1 August 1787), sometimes called Alphonsus Maria de Liguori or Saint Alphonsus Liguori, was an Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musician, artist, poet, lawyer, scholastic philosop ...
(1696-1787))
# ''Nada te turbe'' - 4:50 -
(Marco Frisina. Lyrics based on a text by Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582))
# ''
Veni creator spiritus
"Veni Creator Spiritus" (Come, Creator Spirit) is a traditional Christian hymn believed to have been written by Rabanus Maurus, a ninth-century German monk, teacher, and archbishop. When the original Latin text is used, it is normally sung in Greg ...
'' - 3:12 -
(Liturgical hymn of the feast of Pentecost
Pentecost (also called Whit Sunday, Whitsunday or Whitsun) is a Christianity, Christian holiday which takes place on the 50th day (the seventh Sunday) after Easter Sunday. It commemorates the descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles in the Ne ...
)
# ''Pianto della Madonna'' - 1:46 -
(Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (baptized 15 May 1567 – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, choirmaster and string player. A composer of both secular and sacred music, and a pioneer in the development of opera, he is considered ...
(1567-1643), from the collection of sacred music " Selva morale e spirituale" (1640))
# ''Dulcis Christe'' - 3:00 -
(Michelangiolo Grancini (1605-1669))
# ''Qui presso a te'' - 4:54 -
(Anonymous writer, 19th century)
# ''
Ave Maria'' - 3:58 -
( Charles Gounod (1818-1893). Based on the " Prelude No. 1 in C major (BWV 846)" from "The Well-Tempered Clavier
''The Well-Tempered Clavier'', BWV 846–893, consists of two sets of preludes and fugues in all 24 major and minor keys for keyboard by Johann Sebastian Bach. In the composer's time, ''clavier'', meaning keyboard, referred to a variety of in ...
" by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750))
*The hidden track ''Voi ch'amate lo criatore'' is found at the end of track 12 in CD editions of the album.
Charts
References
External links
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2000 albums
Mina (Italian singer) albums
Italian-language albums
Latin-language albums