Fernando de Lucia Notturno Napoletano 1909

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A master charmer in this repertoire.................... bel canto napoletano • NOTTURNO NAPOLETANO • Luna, lù! (Ricciardi) • Tenore FERNANDO DE LUCIA • (violin, mandolins, guitars, and chorus) • Società Italiana di Fonotipia - Milano, • N° 92720 XPh4487 • For De Lucia bel canto meant elasticity of tempo and infinite gradations of vocal color, lovingly and hedonistically applied. In his day singers were frequently called upon to sing salon songs, which no doubt taught them to modulate and color their tones. • The stillness of the performance evokes the feeling of a starry summer night. One of De Lucia's most magical performances. Amazing that the 'Blue Moon' nocturne doesn't fall apart at this lugubrious miniaturization.......... • (1:10) lu_U_una, lù! • (Sulla difficile u di luna De Lucia esegue addirittura un diminuendo, grazie ad una emissione corretta, galleggiante) • and I find an uncredible tenderness, nostalgia, surrender (as no one else actually)....in a word: so luxuriant and sensual and very napuleDàn.................... • The twin facts that De Lucia lived for most of his life in his native Naples, and that his artistic life coincided almost precisely with the heyday (1880--1910) of the Neapolitan song, give particular authenticity to his interpretations of those songs, which make up almost one quarter of his enormous recorded output. The great ones of the genre -- De Crescenzo, De Curtis, De Leva, Gambardella, Tirindelli, Tosti, Valente -- all dedicated songs to him. Their works, very often written in minor keys, frequently embody a strain of sadness: it is well said that they seem to sigh, to laugh and then to die, with words and music so interdependent that that one could not exist without the other . • In 1922 his very last record was 'Marechiare' by Tosti. In 1888, Enrico De Leva was probaly the first composer to dedicate a song to the rising tenor, De Lucia ('Lacreme amare'). Many more dedications were to follow, among them: 'Di te!' (Napoletano Fogazzaro/Tirindelli), 'Carulina' (Testa De Crescenzo), 'Mandulinata' (G. Di Giacomo Donato), 'Palummella' (Rovito De Crescenzo), 'Triste ritorno' (R. Barthélemy), 'Nun me guardate cchiù' (Russo Gambardella) and 'Voce e notte' (Nicolardi De Curtis) – the last one seems to have been 'Il marinaro canta' (lyrics Bianca Franci) composed by his son, Nadir de Lucia, in 1919 ... You hear how he loves his language, how he caresses every word... http://www.ilcorrieredellagrisi.eu/20... • ---------------------------------------------------- • Fonotipia Records was an Italian gramophone record label established in 1904. They recorded most of the great Italian singers of the first two decades of the 20th century and the recording quality was high for its day... Fonotipia continued to operate into the electrical recording era, which commenced in 1925-26, by which time the company had been absorbed into Odeon records. • Among the singers, many of them famous, who recorded for Fonotipia were the following: • Pasquale Amato, Giuseppe Anselmi, Maria Barrientos, Alessandro Bonci, Giuseppe Borgatti, Eugenia Burzio, Mercedes Capsir, Margherita Carosio, Ferruccio Corradetti, Emilia Corsi, Gilda dalla Rizza, Nazzareno de Angelis, Elvira de Hidalgo, Giuseppe De Luca, Fernando De Lucia, Emmy Destinn, Adamo Didur, Léon Escalais, Giuseppina Finzi-Magrini, Edoardo Garbin, Maria Jeritza, Jan Kiepura, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Oreste Luppi, Antonio Magini-Coletti, Victor Maurel, Irene Minghini-Cattaneo, Francesco Navarini, Giuseppe Pacini, Regina Pacini, Rosetta Pampanini, Tancredi Pasero, Aureliano Pertile, Lily Pons, Giannina Russ, Mario Sammarco, Mariano Stabile, Rosina Storchio, Riccardo Stracciari, Conchita Supervia, Richard Tauber, Francisco Vignas and Giovanni Zenatello. • ---------------------------------------------------- • One of the most distinctive sounds of Italy is the tremolo melody of a mandolin. A GREAT mandolin virtuoso (Bernardo de Pace) can be found here: • • World Famous Mandolin Virtuoso Bernar... • ----------------------------------------------------

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