Poor flowers

I want to share with you one of the most beautiful arias for soprano that I know of.
I am sorry I haven't been able to find the whole aria with Maria Callas, because I think she does it so heartbreakingly wonderful.

Poveri Fiori from the opera Adriana Lecouvreur by Cilea, in different versions :

Mirella Freni

Montserrat Caballé

Maria Callas (one minute snippet)

Find the text in both Italian and English here.
Read more about the opera, which premiered in 1902, here.

Jazzy Ravel

Ravel.
I had never heard this until just now.
It's great.
String Quartet in F, composed in 1903.
So modern, so bouncy, so rhythmic.

This is the second movement, called Assez vif. Très rythmé.

Read more about Maurice Ravel here.
The painting is by Robert Delaunay.

Arvo Pärt

Cantus in memoriam of Benjamin Britten.
Arvo Pärt was born 1935 in Estonia.
His compositions make my heart soar.
Read more about Pärt here.