Folksongs!, Vol. 2
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.DIGR71

By Folksongs Ensemble, Francesco Palazzo, and Tiziana Portoghese. By Traditional. Classical. CD. Naxos #DIGR71. Published by Naxos (NX.DIGR71).

In 2014, Digressione recording label's first album by the eponymouse group was born; the group was then a simple duo formed by the voice of mezzo-soprano Tiziana Portoghese and the accordion of Francesco Palazzo, supported when necessary by Luigi Morleo as percussionist. In the repertoire there were a series of pieces written specially by contemporary composers (including the same Morleo, Palazzo and Portoghese) but also acquired from the operas by Rossini and Stravinsky, all inspired by folk music of different traditions and latitudes, with three arrangements personally cared for Palazzo and Portoghese. Today the project is resumed and expanded in this new album again publushed by Don Gino Samarelli's Digressione Music), in which the workforce has grown a lot: the curred Folksongs Ensemble has 17 elements plus the master conductor, director Andrea Gargiulo, and is an ensemble of variable geometry, that upon the need is broken down into smaller nuclei, but at full strenght assumes a wealth of orchestral sound, with band's echoes.