Lyr Add: La Montanara (+RA)

Subject: Lyr Add: LA MONTANARA
From: Ezio
Date: 13 Jun 98 - 04:35 AM

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The quality of the sound is not outstanding, but please consider that it comes from an original 78rpm remastered on CD with no retouch. Moreover, the chorus' beauty is - itself - bound to 'pianissimo' and 'fortissimo', and this is very difficult to reproduce with the compressed dynamic (to reduce file size) used on the web.
Format=Real Audio 3.0, 28.8 Mono, full response * Time=1:24 * Size=167kb
(available on line for a few days only - sorry)
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In Italy this is considered a sort of 'official' hymn to the mountains.

Performer: CORO SAT, Trento, Italy
Historical Recording, circa 1935

LA MONTANARA

by Toni Ortelli/Luigi Pigarelli

Lassu' per le montagne
Fra boschi e valli d'or
Fra aspre rupi eccheggia
Un cantico d'amore

«La Montanara ohe»
si sente cantare
«cantiam La Montanara
e chi non la sa?»
(x2)

La su' sui monti dai rivi d'argento
una capanna cosparsa di fior
era la piccola, dolce dimora
di Soreghina, la figlia del sol

TRANSLATION
THE MOUNTAIN GIRL
Over there over the mountains
among woods and golden valleys
among steep cliffs
a love canticle echoes

«The Mountain Girl» (song)
it can be heard
«we sing The Mountan Girl,
and who doesn't knows it?»
(x2)

Over there, over the mountain with silver streams
a hut covered with flowers
was the little, sweet home
of Soreghina, the daughter of the sun

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submitted by: e.b.