This double album traces two centuries of chamber music for voice and piano tracing a red thread between Apulia and Japan, lands of great musicality, which today meets in the sharing of projects and repertoires. Apulia (Puglia) is the region of southern Italy that has produced more musicians than any other in the last five centuries. A good part of the great composers, singers and instrumentalists who made the “Neapolitan School” famous in the world between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries, were in fact born in Apulia. It is probably not a talent inherited genetically, nor is it due to the quality of the air, food and sea of this territory today very much loved by visitors, but the consequence of a special historical situation: among the provinces of the Kingdom of Naples, the Apulian one was the richest of fiefs. The noble Apulian feudatories generally had a representative building in the capital, Naples, where they showed young music promises discovered in the territory and brought to study in Neapolitan conservatories at their own expense. Some of them then returned to Apulia to serve churches or convents and sometimes opened schools of music. It was the same small territorial nobility that later created real private concerts in their provincial palaces that wanted to imitate those of the most fashionable salons in the capital. Throughout the nineteenth century the movement of young musicians from Apulia to Naples continued, but with a more consistent return to their homeland after their studies and the debut, often operatic, in the Neapolitan theaters. Since there are few theaters in the Apulian territory, the best work opportunities for musicians returning home were offered by many bands, active since the early the nineteenth century in all the towns, even small ones, of Apulia and soon became one of the best in Italy. Often great musicians, also from other regions, were invited to direct those formations of excellence.

Tracklist:

1. C’era Una Volta
2. Fior Di Malinconia
3. Mattinale
4. Rispetto
5. Armonie Di Silenzi
6. Ma Tu Verrai, Bambino
7. Tremino I Rami Al Sole
8. Esortazione A Un Cuore Agitato
9. D’estate
10. Confini
11. Non Partir
12. Illusione
13. Dove Cercher?
14. Ave Maria
15. Ballata Medioevale
16. Campana Dell’ave
17. L’ultima Danza
18. Madonna, Nel Tuo Sguardo
19. Non Pi
20. Verr
21. Vieni
22. L’oro Et Le Perle E I Fior’ Vermigli E I Bianchi
23. Oltre Il Mondo In Bianco E Nero
24. Caro Mi(A)O Ben
25. Chi Sar Che M’amer?
26. Dove La Luce
27. Senza Risposta
28. Il Colombo Solitario
29. Nuvola Bianca
30. Sogno
31. Ninna Nanna
32. Angeli Alati
33. Sognandoci
34. Sul Fiorito Melograno
35. Faccio Tutto
36. Ho Visto Un Uomo
37. Interlude
38. Vocalize
39. M’ami Tu Ancora?
40. Illumina Tu, O Fuoco
41. Il Presagio
42. Perch Si Spense La Lampada?
43. Il Divino Infante
44. Tre Liriche Greche Antiche: No. 1, Lamento Di Achille Per La Morte Di Patroclo
45. Tre Liriche Greche Antiche: No. 2, Ad Eurialo, Caro Ad Afrodite
46. Tre Liriche Greche Antiche: No. 3, A Cleobulo
47. Voce Di Donna
48. Ninna Nanna Per Sara
49. Night