Enrico Caruso - A vucchella

Canzone Napoletana, sometimes referred to as Neapolitan song, is a generic term for a traditional form of music sung in the Neapolitan language, ordinarily for the male voice singing solo, and expressed in familiar genres such as the lover's complaint or the serenade. It consists of a large body of composed popular music—such songs as O sole mio, Torna a Surriento, Funiculì, Funiculà and others.

The Neapolitan song became a formal institution in the 1830s through the vehicle of an annual song writing competition for the yearly Festival of Piedigrotta, dedicated to the Madonna of Piedigrotta, a well-known church in the Mergellina area of Naples. The winner of the first festival was a song entitled Te voglio bene assaie; it was composed by the prominent opera composer, Gaetano Donizetti. The festival ran regularly until 1950 when it was abandoned. A subsequent Festival of Neapolitan Song on Italian state radio enjoyed some success in the 1950s but was eventually abandoned as well.

The period since 1950 has produced such songs as Malafemmena by Totò and Carmela by Sergio Bruni. Although separated by some decades from the earlier classics of this genre, they have now become "classics" in their own right.

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• Enrico
• Caruso
• vucchella

[nadiasmithers]

My grandmother was a Neopolitan. She came to England during the II WW together with my grandfather who served in Italy with the British army. She died a week ago.

[jbassopuga]

Una canción preciosa cantada por una maravillosa voz como la de Caruso, una perla...

[slagari]

@82maigret82 si, ok, ma è canzone classica napoletana, per scale e testo dialettale... tra gli autori della canzone partenopea ci sono anche milanesi, romani, siciliani... però trattasi sempre di canzone napoletana.

[82maigret82]

questa lirica non e Napoletana,ma Abruzzese,in quanto la musica è di Francesco Paolo Tosti nato a Ortona ( Chieti) e le parole sono del Vate Gabriele D'Annunzio di Pescara

STUDIATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

[barryhawk23]

Rose petals I'd imagine

[renduke]

214 to 227 your lips look like rose pedals

[JackRance1910]

I usually don't like the enhanced Caruso recordings - but this seems natural and credible. Excellent.

[paulostroff99]

Awesome singing .TY M for posting and james for sharing

[maxiborgaro]

me quedo un millon de veces con pavarotti. mucho mas dulce y menos payasesca cuando dice -dammilo nu vasillo apassulliatella-

[Raffpio]

Veramente bello!!!! Amo le canzoni napoletane!!!!

[256timoteo]

Qui è tutto perfetto!!!!