Neapology

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Label
Ars Produktion
Release Date
June 7, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Various
    • PERFORMER
      Genny Basso
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      June 07, 2024
    • UPC
      4260052386613
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      ARS38661
    • LABEL
      Ars Produktion
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Rossini - Soirées musicales, S424/R236: IX. La danza (Tarantella)

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Genny Basso

    2. Scalinatella (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Giuseppe Cioffi

      Performer: Genny Basso

    3. Torna a Surriento (Come back to Sorrento) (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Ernesto De Curtis

      Performer: Genny Basso

    4. Core 'ngrato (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Salvatore Cardillo

      Performer: Genny Basso

    5. Années de pèlerinage, 2nd year, Italy supplement, S162/R10: Venezia e Napoli: No. 3. Tarantella

      Composer: Franz Liszt

      Performer: Genny Basso

    6. 5 Easy Pieces: No. 4. Napolitana (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Igor Stravinsky

      Performer: Genny Basso

    7. Chiove (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Evemero Nardella

      Performer: Genny Basso

    8. O sole mio (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Eduardo di Capua

      Performer: Genny Basso

    9. Era de maggio matenata (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Pasquale Mario Costa

      Performer: Genny Basso

    10. Sulle rive di Chiaia

      Composer: Pietro Mascagni

      Performer: Genny Basso

    11. Tarantelle in A-Flat Major, Op. 43

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Genny Basso

    12. Carmela (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Sergio Bruni

      Performer: Genny Basso

    13. Tarantella

      Composer: Ruggero Leoncavallo

      Performer: Genny Basso

    14. Piscatore 'e Pusilleco (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Ernesto Tagliaferri

      Performer: Genny Basso

    15. Soirées d'automne à l'Infrascata: No. 4. Amor marinaro: Canzonetta napoletana (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Genny Basso

    16. Te voglio bene assaje (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Gaetano Donizetti

      Performer: Genny Basso

    17. Funiculi, funicula (arr. G. Basso for piano)

      Composer: Luigi Denza

      Performer: Genny Basso


Genny Basso, a classically trained pianist, interprets some Neapolitan songs - and not necessarily the most famous ones - in an unusual way, infusing them with stylistic elements that hark back to composers of "high culture", but never with the intention of sounding ingratiating or irreverent, or of confronting the listener with a self-congratulatory exercise. What at first glance may appear to be a game of musical camouflage turns out to be the culmination of an interpretation constructed with the performer's consciousness, detecting and at times inducing allusions and references. The resulting, quite surprising interweavings are made credible by an affinity for writing and by it's emotional atmosphere. It's hard to say exactly when the idea for this album was born, says Genny Basso. "Maybe I always had a project like this in mind. As a child, I was enchanted when I listened to my mum play Piscatore 'e Pusilleco on the piano. It was the beginning of a musical passion that never left me and that I continued to cultivate along with my classical training; I looked for informal situations where it was welcome. At some point, however, I realised that so much interest on my part in the Neapolitan tradition deserved a larger and more exclusive space. And that's how my first adaptations came about, those of Era de Maggio and Carmela... and the rest is history."