About This Song
About "Count Grassi's Passage over Piedmont" by The Divine Comedy
A mock-heroic travelogue, 'Count Grassi's Passage over Piedmont' sends Hannon’s aristocratic narrator over the Alps with pomp and peril. Strings swoop like mountain winds; the melody marches with comic self-importance. The tension lies between grandeur and absurdity—a nobleman’s journey rendered as chamber-pop operetta, both majestic and faintly ridiculous.