THE IRVING BERLIN SONGBOOK - Paolo Birro Alfredo Ferrario

THE IRVING BERLIN SONGBOOK (CVLD243)

Paolo Birro, piano

Alfredo Ferrario, clarinet

Available in: HD Files, CD

01 - Soft Lights And Sweet Music - 4:35
02 - What'll I Do - 4:19
03 - Alexander's Ragtime Band - 3:34
04 - Russian Lullaby - 4:01
05 - I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - 5:41
06 - Always - 4:45
07 - Say It Isn't So - 4:21
08 - I'm Putting All My Eggs In One Basket - 3:40
09 - The Best Thing For You - 3:18
10 - Isn't This A Lovely Day? - 5:32
11 - God Bless America - 5:46
12 - Blue Skies - 3:20
13 - Marie - 2:52
14 - Remember - 4:08
tot. time: 59:58

24bit / 192kHz original recording made strictly Live-in-Studio at Main Hall of Villa Centanin e Masiero, Arquà Petrarca, Italy on September 25th, 2013
 
 
Production: VELUT LUNA
Recording, mix & mastering engineer: MARCO LINCETTO
Assistant recording engineer: ANTONIO LANFRANCA
Photo: MARCO LINCETTO
Layout: L’IMAGE
 
I had the idea for this album, starting from the desire to enhance the original sound of this beautiful piano. An instrument that certainly gives us back the original sounds that Irving Berlin himself and his contemporary authors had available to compose their songs, their music. And the place I chose to make the recording also has the acoustic characteristics of the rooms where this music was played in the first half of the 20th century: a generously sized hall of an 19th-century villa, Villa Masiero and Centanin, built on the hills of Veneto, which can certainly be likened to the halls of noble palaces in New York and major American cities, where this music was played.
This album is also my tribute to great American music, to American "classical" music, of which Irving Berlin is undoubtedly one of the most brilliant authors. Finally, but not least, this album is an opportunity to once again showcase two of the most interesting and talented Italian jazz musicians, Paolo Birro and Alfredo Ferrario, who with this work deliver to posterity an intimate and poignant interpretation of immortal songs, to which they give a decidedly new and personal light.
Marco Lincetto

Paolo Birro plays on Steinway & Sons Mod. O, New York, 1909.
This piano belonged to Maestro Adriano Lincetto, and is now one of the antique piano collections of the "Museum of Ancient Pianos" of the Fondazione Musicale Centanin e Masiero, which restored and gave new life to this wonderful piano.