The Singer at the Microphone - Eugenio Finardi

The Singer at the Microphone - Eugenio Finardi

( CVLD162 ) CD and HD - ORIGINAL VERSION 2007

(CVLD386) LP and HD - REMASTERED VERSION 2024

Traces

01 - The Horizon
02 - He never returned from the front
03 - Morning exercises
04 - The interrupted flight
05 - The Wolf Hunt
06 - The Song of the Earth
07 - The singer at the microphone
08 - Wild horses
09 - The sentimental boxer
10 - The white bath
11 - Variations on gypsy themes

Notes

The recording project Il Cantante Al Microfono builds a bridge between singer-songwriter music and contemporary classical music, starting with the great Russian actor, poet, and singer-songwriter Vysotsky, who tragically passed away in 1980. He understood and sang the true soul of his people, and was therefore harshly opposed by the Soviet regime. His music accompanies his piercing and scathing lyrics with intriguing melodies—some with Balkan flavors, some with oriental overtones, some harking back to ancient waltz tempos. From his corpus of over 500 songs, Eugenio Finardi and Filippo Del Corno have selected a dozen titles that powerfully represent the ethical, spiritual, and political tension and corrosive irony that animates Vysotsky's work. The songs, already translated into Italian by Sergio Secondiano Sacchi, were orchestrated for the instrumental ensemble Sentieri Selvaggi by Del Corno himself, in a version that highlights the extremely high poetic and musical quality of Vysotsky's verses and allows the full deployment of Eugenio Finardi's extraordinary interpretative power.
For some time now, Finardi has been combining his work as a leading figure in Italian rock with in-depth and rigorous vocal research, which will astonish those unfamiliar with the journey that took him from fado, to his beloved blues, to contemporary classical music. The refined artwork, curated by Studio Convertino, is a perfect fit with Velut Luna's longstanding production philosophy: originality in artistically and technically top-quality offerings.

Eugenio Finardi voice

Wild Paths : Paola Fre flute Mirco Ghirardini clarinet Paolo Pasqualin vibraphone Andrea Rebaudengo piano Piercarlo Sacco violin Paola Perardi cello

Carlo Boccadoro direction

Sergio Secondiano Sacchi Italian translation

Filippo Del Corno orchestration

• The work won the 2008 Targa Tenco award, in the section for performers of songs not of their own.