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"Motettu de tristura" (Sardinian language; "sad ditty") is a traditional Sardinian folk song composed by an anonymous author and rewritten by Luciano Berio for voice (mezzo-soprano), flute, clarinet, harp, percussion, viola and cello.

Setting and arrangements
The music and words of the piece, known as Tristu passirillanti (Sad nightingale), were collected by Berio in the village of Guasila (Province of South Sardinia). The text in Campidanese sardinian is composed of two stanzas of five septenary lines each.

Luciano Berio set it for soprano and ensemble as part of his Folk Songs in 1964: the song cycle was composed for, and recorded by, Cathy Berberian.

Lyrics and meaning of the song
It is the desperate song of a woman who, overcome with grief over the loss of her lover, perhaps because he is dead, turns to a nightingale, and asks him why he advised her to cry for her lover. She is probably convinced that it is completely useless; in fact in the following verses he asks him to sing this song to him after she is dead.

Other recordings

 * 2005, Osvaldo Golijov in the CD Ayre, with Dawn Upshaw & The Andalucian Dogs, Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg

Covers

 * Luisa Castellani
 * Stella Doufexis
 * Ensemble da Camera del Conservatorio "A. Boito" of Parma
 * Eutopia Ensemble
 * Ingrid Caven
 * Orna Arania
 * Albena Kechlibareva
 * Eloise Decazes & Delphine Dora
 * Christine Schadeberg
 * Polifonica Santa Cecilia of Sassari
 * Salvio Vassallo & Valentina Gaudini
 * Eleonora Noga Alberti with the Conjunto de Música Contemporánea
 * Laure Delcampe with the Ensemble 21
 * Claudia Yepes
 * Barbarie Crespin
 * Françoise Kubler with the Ensemble Accroche Note.
 * Abigail Fischer

Original Text
Tancas serradas a muru,

Fattas a s’afferra afferra,

Si su chelu fit in terra,

che l’aian serradu puru.

Literal English Translation
''Enclosures closed with walls,  made by the grabbers;  if heaven were on earth,  they would have fenced that too.''

Other versions

 * 1984, Maria Carta, in the album Sonos 'e memoria
 * 1988, Bertas in the LP Unu mundu bellissimu
 * 2005, with the title Tancas Serradas A Muru (Walls Are Encircling The Land), Osvaldo Golijov in the CD Ayre, with Dawn Upshaw & The Andalucian Dogs, Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Hamburg

Note
Category:Sardinian folk songs



Estate
Estate is an Italian song written in 1960 by Bruno Martino and Bruno Brighetti and is his signature song. A minor hit in Italy when released, it eventually became a worldwide jazz standard largely through its interpretation by Joao Gilberto.

The title refers to summer, and describes a love lost during summer and the bitter memories that come with the season ever since. It was originally titled (and the refrain sung) "Odio l'estate" ("I Hate The Summer").

Covers

 * Milva, Helen Merrill, Ornella Vanoni, Arturo Sandoval,  Vinicio Capossela,  Eliane Elias, Plácido Domingo, Selton with Priestess, Alex Britti, Erlend Øye, Tha Supreme

Instrumental versions

 * Joe Pass, Toots Thielemans, John Pizzarelli, Chet Baker, Michel Petrucciani, Lynne Arriale (Trio), Till Bronner

English versions

 * Shirley Horn (Estate-Summer) lyrics by Joel Siegel), Jon Hendricks, (In Summer), Patrizio Buanne (Maybe This Summer)