FTX 617 - ANTHOLOGY OF POPULAR ITALIAN MUSIC - vol 1
INTRODUCTION When these recordings, containing folk music and songs selected
from a number of early collections were first recorded and published in the
mid 1950s particuilarly by the American musicologist, Alan Lomax, many Italians
themselves were surprised at the richness, variety and vitality of an oral tradition
that had been thought forever lost. Twenty years later, a new selection by Roberto
Leydi provided further insight into Italian oral culture, bearing witness to
the renewed attention by the popular music world. Research had been intensified
and is presented by Roberto Leydi and some of Italy's most important folklore
experts. Shortly before his death on Saturday 15th February 2003, his old friend
Peter Kennedy, spoke to Roberto Leydi and, because of his depression at his
recordings no longer being available, Peter gave him an undertaking to try and
maintain publication of some of these early field recordings.
REZIANKA ("Zagatina") - FURLANA - VALZER - MONFERRINA
- SALTARELLO - TARANTELLA - PIZZICA TARANTATA -
Assolo of MARANZANU (Jew's harp) - BALLO TONDO (Circle dance) - S'ARRUSCIADA
(Circle dance) - SUS TENORES A BALLU - SU BALLU - VO
GIRAND PER GLI OSTERIE (I'm makin' the round of the taverns) - SU PIZZINEDDU
(The Little Boy) - NOVENA DI NATALE (Christmas Carol) - SAN GIOACCHINO
STAVA SUI MONTI (St. Joachim was on the mountain) - LA VITA DI SANT'ALESSIO
(The Story of St Alexis) - LITANIES FOR PILGRIMAGE AT MONTEVERGINE SANCTUARY
- CAROL FOR ST. ANTONY'S FEAST DAY - TU CHI DORMI NNA STU LETTU
(You Who Sleep In This Bed)/ VINNIRISANTU E VINNIRI MATINU (Good Friday And
Friday Morning) - L'OROLOGIO DELLA PASSIONE (The Passion Hours) -
MISERERE - CATTIVO CUSTODE (The Evil Custodian) (Nigra 50) -
MORAN D'INGHILTERRA (Moran Of England) (Nigra 42) - POTERE DEL CANTO
(The Power Of Song) (Nigra 47) - LA MONACA PER FORZA (The Unwilling
Nun) - FRANCESCO E GIOVANNI - I PRINCIPESSA DI CARINI (The Princess
Of Carini)
