Neapolitan music? Christina Pluhar? The best jams are made in old cauldrons. How not to think of the fabulous founding record, The Tarentellaat Alpha in 2001? Yes, but The Tarentella, it was Christina Pluhar and Marco Beasley, who have since divorced musically. Alla Napoletana Fortunately, the climates and the singers vary, because in the register and an equivalent repertoire, on which Pluhar fortunately very little ventures, Alessandro Giangrande does not come close to Beasley here. Happiness is in diversity, with some jewels (Valer Sabadus in Dormitis o pupil, the strange and surprising Vincenzo Capezzuto) and a very good general level. The other virtue of the project is the discovery, on CD 2, of a striking Christmas Cantata scored by Cristoforo Caresana. This second CD, composed of cantatas and arias, features the other “vocal flat”, bass João Fernandes, an accomplished actor (in The fool by Pietro Antonio Giramo), but whose technique remains sketchy.
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