The guitarist Carlos Santana has enjoyed, in recent years, great and renewed success. Giancarlo Gazzani has included, in this medley, some historic and more recent songs from Santana's repertoire: 'Fl...
The song, with lyrics by the journalist Peppino Turco and music by Luigi Denza, was written back in 1880. It was inspired by the inauguration, that same year, of the first funicular railway on Vesuviu...
Minnie the Moocher is a song by Cab Calloway, made famous by the movie The Blues Brothers. During his performances, Calloway asked his audience to repeat each phrase in a question-and-answer game. Som...
The piece''Die Walküre'' (the Valkyries) is the second of the four works that make up the 'Der Ring des Nibelungen' (The Ring of the Nibelung). It premiered in Munich in 1870. The 'Ride of the Valkyri...
Originally composed as a chanson for voice and piano and than transcribed for orchestra, the Danse Macabre Op. 40 is a short symphonic poem composed by Camille Saint-Saëns in 1874. Among the various p...
Born in Mexico in 1947 and a naturalised US citizen, Carlos Santana is one of the most successful rock musicians of all time. Among his greatest hits are Samba pa-ti and Europa. After a period during...
This traditional Mexican song was written by Elpidio Ramirez in the 1940's and made famous by a number of interpretations by several artists. One such singer was the Mexican Miguel Aceves Mejía, famou...
