* a work in progress album *
Armida Records 11-060823
artists: TRIO D’ARNA
BARBARA ABATI flute | LUCIA BELLUCCI guitar | LUCA RICCI singer & arranger
LA LUNA SI VESTE D’ARGENTO (Classic Italian Songs)
VITTORIO MASCHERONI (1895 – 1972) | ORNELLA FERRARI (BIRI) (1909 – 1983)
In 1951 the first Italian song festival took place, better known as the Sanremo Festival, conducted by NUNZIO FILOGAMO. There were 20 songs in the competition, the performers only 3. Two of them, NILLA PIZZI and ACHILLE TOGLIANI, accompanied by the orchestra of Maestro CINICO ANGELINI (pseudonym of ANGELO CINICI), sang the song that was classified in second place: LA LUNA SI VESTE D’ARGENTO, written by the composer VITTORIO MASCHERONI and the lyricist BIRI (pseudonym of ORNELLA FERRARI).
CHANSON D’AUBE (Classic Italian Songs)
ANONIMO SEC.XVI | LUCA RICCI (1966 – )
In the late Middle Ages, among the ballads and chansons played by the Troubadours, the chanson d’aube spread, a song that the minstrel sang under the windows of secret lovers, to announce that the sun was rising, and that the sad moment of separation was arrived
On an ancient melody from the 16th century, Luca Ricci narrates the state of mind of the man who, in moving away from his beloved, wonders when the time will come to see her again.
MATTINATA FIORENTINA (Classic Italian Songs)
GIOVANNI D’ANZI (1906 – 1974) | MICHELE GALDIERI (1902 – 1965)
PICCOLISSIMA SERENATA (Classic Italian Songs)
GIANNI FERRIO (1924 – 1913) | ANTONIO AMURRI (1925- 1992)
The songwriting, heir to the nineteenth-century ROMANZA DA SALOTTO, spread from the early years of the twentieth century, also thanks to the inventions of the phonograph and the radio. Popular because they sang stories and feelings of the people, in a simpler way than the form from which they derived, the songs immediately met with great public favor. Thousands of titles are available today, and it may not always be easy to navigate among them for those who, like the TRIO D’ARNA, have chosen to deal with the reinterpretation of classic Italian songs.
In the course of our “work in progress” album we will propose songs where, in our opinion, the musical language knows how to convey the emotions transmitted by the lyrics, which today as then are the basis on which the art of CANTAR LEGGERO is built. And speaking of singing, if 100 years ago it was the so-called BEL CANTO that dominated it, if after the Second World War the style of swing singers influenced that of our local singers, who during the 60s even turned into “shouters”, songwriting is always linked to a polite way of singing, to handing the listener music and words with grace that have perhaps fallen into disuse today, and which we believe deserves to be rediscovered.
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Recorded at the Classical Recording Studio – Perugia (Italy)
Sound Engineer and Recording Producer: Luca Ricci