Fernando Fracassi: Flute and electronics
Music by various Neapolitan composers
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The scent of the sea, the freshly baked puff pastries accompanied by the well-known espresso coffee, the voices, the melodies and the colors of the streets and alleys teeming with people but above all the love and passion are all elements clearly perceptible in this splendid collection of successful Neapolitan songs transposed into an instrumental key by Fernando Fracassi.

From the great international successes of late nineteenth-century songs in the Neapolitan vernacular such as 'O sole mio, Torna 'a Surriento, Santa Lucia, Fernando Fracassi leads us to the wonderful melodies of Malafemmena, Funiculi Funicula and Maria Mari' to conclude his journey in music with his own original composition 'O fonografo cu a manuvella (Happiness), inspired by a famous poem by Antonio De Curtis (aka Toto) on the theme of happiness which the author considers non-existent on our earth. An unmissable album in the personal collection of lovers of bel canto and the Neapolitan tradition. 

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