Gavino Murgia / bassu, artistic leader
Pietro Piras / contra
Stefano Merella / boche, mesu boche
Francesco Pintori / boche, mesu boche
Polyphonic singing by a group of four men standing in a close circle is characteristic by the deep and guttural timbre of low voices. The solo singer chants an ancient or contemporary story of prose or a poem while the other voices form an accompanying chorus. These pastoral songs “canto a tenore” are typical for the region of Barbagia, a mountain region of Sardinia. For their uniqueness they were inscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity in 2008.
Program:
Canto a tenore
Sardinian pastoral songs
