P.I. Tchaikovsky: Album for the Young/Children's Album (Op. 39, 1878)
18. Neapolitan Song
Arranged for mandolin and guitar by Esther Simon

This is an adaptation of this simple piano piece by Tchaikovsky for mandolin and guitar, which I got from the March 1951 issue of the BMG Magazine, available for download at:

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This is a common beginner's piece for piano, usually played quite a bit faster than my mandolin recording. I'm not sure why, as the original tempo marking was "Comodo - gracioso". In any case, as it's a pastiche of Neapolitan mandolin serenades, it adapts very nicely, and sounds suitably ideomatic on mandolin.

Mid-Missouri M-0W mandolin
Vintage Viaten tenor guitar

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