An iconic album of Milva, Singing of freedomreturns in a limited edition on the occasion of the next Record Store Day.
On April 12, on the occasion of Record Store Day 2025, Warner Music republish Singing of freedomalbum by Milvaoriginally released in 1965 for Fonit Cetra.
The album is released in a special version in a numbered edition red vinyl.
Canti della Libertà: Milva's album returns to the shops
Published in 1965, Singing of freedom is one of the most significant albums of the career of Milvaa project that collects some of the most famous songs of the Resistance, revolutionary songs and popular hymns of different eras and countries.
The album, originally published by Fonit Cetrasees the orchestral management of Gino Negri And it includes songs ranging from the French revolution to Italian resistance, to the war of American secession.
The tracklist of the album
- Hymn to Oberdan
- Goodbye Lugano Bella
- Whistle the wind
- Los Cuatro Geneles
- HorsWeSsel Lied (KälBarmarsch of Bertolt Brecht)
- La Marseillaise
- The carmagnole
- Along the road
- John Brown
- The cucaracha
The stories behind some songs of songs of freedom
The album collects fighting and resistance songs that have gone through different eras and nations:
Hymn to Oberdan For example, it was composed following the execution of the Irredentista Triestino Guglielmo Oberdan And it is a song that praises his figure against the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Goodbye Lugano Bellawritten by anarchist Pietro Gori In 1895, it was one of the most famous anarchist songs, which became a symbol of political struggle in the early twentieth century.
A famous partisan song is Whistle the wind. Written by Happy Cascione In 1943 on a popular Soviet melody (Katjuša), became the official anthem of the Garibaldi brigades during the Italian resistance.
From France two very important songs: La Marseillaiserevolutionary hymn adopted as a national anthem of France in 1795 and then resumed in 1879, and The carmagnoleone of the best known songs of the French Revolution, composed in 1792, which became a symbol of the people's struggle against the monarchy.
John Brown's Body It is a song from 1861, born in the union files during the American secession war, and is dedicated to the abolitionist John Brown. Milva he recorded him in Italian with a text of Gino Negri.
Among the most particular songs of this project The cucarachatraditional Mexican song of uncertain origin, which has become popular during the Mexican revolution of the twentieth century, e HorsWeSsel Lied (Kälbarmarsch). In this case, Nìnon is the version then prohibited in Germany, but a satire written by Bertolt Brechtwhich transformed the melody of the National Socialist in a political parody.
The original cover
The original 1965 album presented a reproduction of the famous painting on the cover La Liberté Guidant Le Peuple Of Eugène Delacroix. On the back, the presentation of the album and the artist were signed by the writer Franco Antonicelliwith descriptive notes for each song.
