Toccatina on a theme by De André

Something different from my usual output but absolutely crazy :D

A transcription of a very famous song, Don Raffaè, written by my favorite Italian singer-songwriter, Fabrizio De André.

The original song is a relaxed Tarantella (wonderfully orchestrated, IMHO, for being a popular song) talking about coffee and corruption in Naples ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqVnV5f_ik4 ). 

Freakin' difficult: chords, big laps, runs, polyrhythms :D The Tempo, moreover, is marked too fast.

Whoa. Some of these jumps are incredibly treacherous. m. 19 to m. 20 looks borderline impossible with that little preparation time. Same with some of the dynamic jumps, but that's admittedly a lot easier.
Interplay between triple and duple is, while not simple, very nice and subtle, which is a great change of pace, from say, me, who loves bringing that kind of stuff out maybe too much. 
I'm not familiar with the original theme, but my goodness, must it be wild for this to come from it! Cheers

Wow! I listened to the original before hearing yours, and I must say it was very creative of you to hear such fantastically wild and quirky potential in a relatively peaceful bit of pop music. I have to particular agree on the matter of the polyrhythms, which felt totally natural to me. Great work!