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A tour (necessarily not exhaustive) of the extraordinary Neapolitan musical heritage.
10 Marcia delle Truppe Sanfediste Tarantelle alla napoletana par Marco Beasley et Accordone
"Your Claudio has fled, Messalina trembles"… Was the people obliged to know Roman history to understand their happiness?" (V. Cuoco)
In Naples, at the Museo di San Martino, there is a painting depicting Admiral Caracciolo hanged from the main mast of Nelson's ship. My father used to take me there often and tried to tell me about the Neapolitan Republic and the sanfedisti, about Pimentel Fonseca and the French who bombarded the very people they had come to liberate.
I understood nothing and I can barely remember his stories.
I learned about those things later, and also the words of Vincenzo Cuoco, who explained that a people's revolution is made "with" the people and not against them.
On June 13, 1799, Cardinal Ruffo, at the head of his Army of the Holy Faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ (the Sanfedisti), entered Naples, putting an end to the republican affair and beginning a bloody repression.
All of it with popular acclaim.
"The March of the Sanfedist Troops" is the most famous anti-Jacobin song born in those days; an incredibly famous song with countless versions (as usual, there's even that of the NCCP).
I propose to you this one by Marco Beasley and Accordone which is my favorite. Beasley and Accordone are extraordinary interpreters of Baroque music, scholars of "recitar cantando" and of Neapolitan and European Baroque, creators of magnificent shows. If you feel like it, get their "Storie di Napoli," which - I assure you - is a beautiful album; one of the best-kept secrets of a musical heritage buried under the usual pile of useless music.