Olga Bolgari - soprano, Ruslan Pashynskyi - soprano saxophone, Andrei Roth - piano (Live in Vienna). "La Danza. Tarantella Napoletana" (1835) is a song by Gioachino Rossini, in tarantella napoletana time, the eighth song of the collection "Les soirées musicales" (1830--1835). The lyrics are by Count Carlo Pepoli, librettist of Vincenzo Bellini's opera "I puritani". "La danza" is a stand-alone chamber vocal piece, rather than part of a larger work. Franz Liszt transcribed it for piano, Frederic Chopin used the song as inspiration for his "Tarantelle in A-flat", Op. 43 and Ottorino Respighi featured it in "La Boutique fantasque".
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