Italian Treasury: Lombardia
Alan Lomax Collection
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CAT # 11661-1871-2
1. El fiöl del conte (The Count's Son) 4:31 2. Il giorno di carnevale (Carnival Day) 3:52 3. Caro 'l me Tone (My Dear Tonio) 1:41 4. Marcia (March) 2:31 5. Ninna nanna (Lullaby) 2:26 6. Ol carneàl el va el vé (Carnival Comes and Goes) 1:05 7. Pierì de la montagna (Pierino of the Mountain) 2:27 8. I n'andai a Vivrón (They Went to Viverone) 2:02 9. L'è rivà d'un bastimento (A Ship Has Come In) 2:49 10. Valzer (Waltz) 2:05 11. Notter de Berghem (We Folk From Bergamo) 1:58 12. Ninna nanna (Lullaby #2) 1:02 13. Quando saremo föra de la Valsügana (When We Are Away From Valsugana) 3:02 14. Mamma mia la spusa l'è ché (Mother Mine My Bride Is Here) / Le carrozze son già preparate (The Carri 3:02 15. Rigoletto Bottanuco 5:37 16. Richiami per gli ucelli (Birdcalls) 6:57
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Lombardia Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella's historic 1954 recordings from Lombardy run the gamut of folk styles and traditions - from jovial wedding and carnival songs to characteristic Italian choral renderings of classic Child Ballads, the enchanting calls of songbird hunters, and a panpipe orchestra playing marches, waltzes, and the overture to Verdi's Rigoletto. Italian Treasury In 1954, Alan Lomax and Diego Carpitella set out on a yearlong voyage of discovery that resulted in an exhaustive documentation of Italian folk music. 'It was a mythic time. None of us suspected that that world - made of music, songs, poverty, joy, desperation, custom, violence, injustice, love, dialect, and poetry, formed over the course of millennia - would be swept away in a couple of years . . . by the voodoo of 'progress.'' -Vittorio De Seta
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