condition (record/cover): NM/EX . Contemporary composers reimagine folk traditions. Commissioned by the Festival Musica '900 (Trento) and Incontri Internazionali di Musica Contemporanea (Bolzano), premiered November 14, 1988.

Salvatore Sciarrino arranges Ary Barroso's Brazil. Luca Francesconi, Carlo Galante, Claudio Ambrosini, and Andrea Mascagni contribute new works alongside international voices: Betty Olivero (Israel), Zygmunt Krauze (Poland), Walter Zimmermann (Germany), Hubert Stuppner, and Antonio Virgilio Savona. Vocalists Johanna Knauf and Gabriella Munari perform throughout.

This project bridges vernacular heritage with late 20th-century compositional practice, reflecting European engagement with folk materials in the post-modern era. A rare document of Italian contemporary music and Alpine traditions intersecting!