.... Here is a delightful and very mixed tribute to four hundread years of Neapolitan song, arranged and presented by Jay Bernfeld and his group Fuoco e Cenere... Of the 27 numbers presented, 12 are instrumental, including fetching dances, and 15 are songs, sensitively or uproariously recreated by the fine young tenor Mathieu Abelli, haunting in Pergolesi's " Tre Giorni", infectiously lively in Donizetti's "Me Voglio fa 'na casa"...

Peter Branscombe