The study of traditional song is of capital importance for a proper understanding of the musical universe of the past; yet this recording, made in 1986 and today regarded as a benchmark, is not ‘ethnological’. On the contrary, Marcel Pérès chose Corsican singers capable of drawing on their island’s musical heritage as rich, living material open to all kinds of experiments, not as a rigid, museum-bound object. The resulting sound is all the more captivating.
This title was released for the first time in 1987.
Corsica · Lettera a Mamma (4'38) · Terzini Guagnesi (2'54) · Ecco bella (3'23) · Versu balaninu (3'27) · Sette galere (5'12) · Ponte novu (3'05) · U primo fiore (2'28) · Asperges me (1'56) · Kyrie (12'23) · Sanctus (5'56) · Agnus Dei (3'59) · Salmu (4'02) · Lode di u sepolcru (5'13)
