Cogli la prima mela is an album of the Italian singer-songwriter Angelo Branduardi

Angelo Branduardi

Angelo Branduardi , is an Italian folk singer and composer who scored relevant success in Italy and European countries such as France, Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands.- Biography :...

. It was released in 1979 by Polydor.

The title track is a re-elaboration of a medieval Hungarian melody, entitled "U naseho Barty". Also the music of "Donna ti voglio cantare" is based on a medieval melody by Pierre Attaingnant

Pierre Attaingnant

Pierre Attaingnant was a French music printer, active in Paris.-Life:Attaingnant is considered to be first large-scale publisher of single-impression movable type for music-printing, thus making it possible to print faster and cheaper than predecessors such as Ottaviano Petrucci...

, entitled "Tourdion", which Branduardi himself recorded in his later album Futuro antico II.

The lyrics of "La raccolta" ("The harvesting") are taken from a poem by Sappho

Sappho

Sappho was an Ancient Greek poet, born on the island of Lesbos. Later Greeks included her in the list of nine lyric poets. Her birth was sometime between 630 and 612 BC, and it is said that she died around 570 BC, but little is known for certain about her life...

, while the music is from the Rumanian folk ballad "M-am suit in dealul clujului". Finally, the song "Ninna nanna" is the Italian version of "Mary Hamilton", an English traditional song also recorded by Joan Baez

Joan Baez

Joan Chandos Baez is an American folk singer, songwriter, musician and a prominent activist in the fields of human rights, peace and environmental justice....

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Track listing

• "Cogli la prima mela" (3:25)
• "Se tu sei cielo" (3:10)
• "La strega" (4:18)
• "Donna ti voglio cantare" (3:25)
• "La raccolta" (4:51)
• "Colori" (3:30)
• "Il signore di Baux" (4:29)
• "Il gufo e il pavone" (3:10)
• "Ninna nanna" (7:23)