Lo Guarracino

Description

When popular music and classical music merge for the pleasure of the moment This new album by the Neapolis Ensemble highlights the game in which composers such as Adrian Willaert, Roland de Lassus, Giovanni Pergolesi and many others engaged: transforming popular music into classical music, and vice versa. Thanks to these composers, we witnessed the birth of thousands of villanelles in the Neapolitan language and the introduction of the tarantella and popular song into opera buffa. The Neapolis Ensemble highlights this aspect by mixing baroque instruments such as the cello or flute with typically popular instruments such as tambourines, guitar or mandola. This instrumentation also makes it possible to restore to these works the lightness that is the basis of the Neapolitan musical tradition, a tradition that holds that music is above all a pleasure of everyday life.