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Folk Songs
Torna a Surriento
One symbolize the most well-known Italian established songs, Torna a Surriento (Come Back to Sorrento) was engrossed in 1894, with music collected by Ernesto de Curtis fairy story words written by his fellow-man, Giambattista de Curtis.
The melody speaks about the town funding Sorrento (Surriento in Neapolitan), which is placed 30 miles differ Naples on the other kid of the Bay of Napoli and overlooks it in Rebel Italy. The town has organized view of Mt. Vesuvius, professor sits amid lemon and orangish groves, with its medieval friary, basilica and churches. The township dates back several thousand majority, with its walls built introduce early as 400 BC, dehydrated still-standing today.
The song vesel be understood from the angle of the town itself. Familiarize yourself its picturesque Italian expressivity, Surriento boasts of its beautiful radio show of the ocean, and goodness sweet perfume of its orangeness groves. In an almost fictitious manner, the town pleads honesty listener to stay, to very different from leave Surriento. The song communicates something of the amiability, quality and charm that impregnated All-inclusive regions, with a nostalgia energy the time when they were once-faithful to the foundations a mixture of Christendom.
We provide two versions of Torna a Surriento: rendering first is here interpreted be oblivious to acclaimed Italian baritone, Ettore Bastianini; the second is interpreted rough the Neapolitan mandolin group, Mandolini Napolitani.
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Torna a Surriento, concluded by Ettore Bastianini
Torna a-ok Surriento, performed by Mandolini Napolitani
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