Simelibärg. Mélodies & danses anciennes de Suisse allemande. Alpbarock. Yves Rechsteiner.
What kind of music was played in Appenzell, in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, before the folk revival movement of the nineteenth century? Alpbarock was formed with the aim of attempting to answer that question. Songs and tunes: Dr Frutt Bättruef (trad.), Danse d'Appenzell (1818), Lied des jungen Grafen (1782), Dursli und Bäbeli (1818), Emmenthaler Hochzeittanz (trad.), Guggisbergerlied (trad.), Bergamasca (1671), De roth Schwyzer (noted 1903) a.o. Booklet with translated song texts in French and English.
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