Nuttata 'e sentimento - Night of Emotion

Che notte, che notte! Che luna, che mare! Stasera mme pare, scetàto, 'e sunnà. Cu 'st'aria serena ca scippa da 'o core suspire d'ammore, durmì nun se po'. Chiara è 'a luna, doce è 'o viento, calmo è 'o mare, oje Carulì. 'Sta nuttata 'e sentimento, nun è fatta pe durmì. Luntano, luntano, p' 'o mare turchino, vulesse, a te 'nzino 'nu suonno sunnà. 'Nu suonno 'e ducezza, 'nu suonno 'ncantato, cu tico abbracciato, sunnanno, murì. Chiara è 'a luna, doce è 'o viento, calmo è 'o mare, oje Carulì. Cchiù bella, cchiù doce, 'sta notte sarrìa si tu, vita mia, venisse a vucà. 'Na storia d'ammore te conto, si viene, si caro mme tiene, rispunne ca ssì. Chiara è 'a luna, doce è 'o viento, calmo è 'o mare, oje Carulì. Pe durmì, Carulì, pe durmì. 1908 - Giuseppe Capolonga (music), Alessandro Cassese (lyric)

What a night, what a night! What a moon, what a sea! Tonight, it seems to me, I wake up to dream. With this serene air that steals from the heart sighs of love, sleeping one cannot do. Bright is the moon, sweet is the wind, calm is the sea, oh Carolina. This night of emotion is not made for sleeping. Far, far away on the blue sea, I’d like on your lap a dream to dream. A dream of sweetness, an enchanted dream, with you embraced, dreaming, to die. Bright is the moon, sweet is the wind, calm is the sea, oh Carolina. More beautiful, sweeter, this night will be if you, my life, would come to row around. A love story I will recount to you if you come; if you hold me dear, respond with yes. Bright is the moon, sweet is the wind, calm is the sea, oh Carolina. For sleeping, Carolina, for sleeping. English translation © 2023 Dennis Criteser oggi o dimane ("today or tomorrow"), published in 2001, is the first of a trilogy of albums of Massimo Ranieri singing traditional Neapolitan songs, produced by Mauro Pagani. The arrangements are fresh with a contemporary appeal and Ranieri's voice is, as always, passionate and full of life. Pagani is a multi-instrumentalist and co-founder of the influential progressive rock band PFM, and is also well-known for producing Creuza de mä, Fabrizio De André's 1983 world fusion masterpiece. The Neapolitan Song tradition dates back centuries, but the classic period began in the 1830s. Ranieri and Pagani later produced a 6-CD box set Canzone napoletana piccola enciclopedia, published in 2015. Ranieri's live performances of these songs are a pleasure to see, showing off his dancing and theatrical skills.