I have known this lovely Neapolitan Christmas song for
very many years, in a version for voice, recorder and
cello. I originally made and published an arrangement
and translation in 2009 in an attempt to popularise
it. It is now much better known that it was, thanks to
the arrangement but also, primarily, to the 2010 CD Via
Crucis with L'Arpeggiata and Philippe Jaroussky. I have
translated verses 1,2 and 7 of the original rather
lkong and repetitive text, and arranged the music for
SATB choir p...(+)
I have known this lovely Neapolitan Christmas song for
very many years, in a version for voice, recorder and
cello. I originally made and published an arrangement
and translation in 2009 in an attempt to popularise
it. It is now much better known that it was, thanks to
the arrangement but also, primarily, to the 2010 CD Via
Crucis with L'Arpeggiata and Philippe Jaroussky. I have
translated verses 1,2 and 7 of the original rather
lkong and repetitive text, and arranged the music for
SATB choir plus piano or (preferably) spinet or
clavichord.
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