Fabrizio de Andre, Italian chansonnier italiano born in Genova in 1940, died in Milan in 1999. He is one of the best examples of the modern Italian music, and this is the main reason why this piece of music has been inserted in the program to be performed in the Netherlands in September 2010. He reached the success in the Sixties as author of "La canzone di Marinella" (Marinella songs) the sad story of a girl who died very young. In those years, full of happiness and hope in the future this was quite unsual and mediately captured the attention of the musical critics in Italy. And De Andre' went on that way for all its life, fullowing his own path, beating the conformism by singing (and playing) the very last ones, prostitutes and thieves, poor and rejected by the society. Very modern but never missing the tradition represented in particular by the Italian folk music, constant source of inspiration for him. In 2010 Patti Smith, the American singer, has included 3 De Andre songs (translated into English) in her new album.

This medley starts with the rythm of the tarantella; "Don Raffaé" is the title of the song which is the story of a mafia "boss" (now in the carcer of Poggioreale) told by his "assistant" Pasquale Cafiero. The second melody is "La Canzone dell'amore perduto" (The Song of the lost love) and speaks about a love which is fading away for the laws of nature and time - the music is by Georg Philipp Telemann, concert for trumpet and orchestra. The medley is closed by "Volta la carta" (Turn the card) which take inspiration by a folk song of Sardinia (in dialect the tiple is "Ma chi boll")