CD 4 (78:27)

Phonotype

Selected recordings

Naples

(continued)

1.MEFISTOFELE: Forma ideal purissima (Boito)2:26 18 April 1920; C 2343

Transposed down a semitone to A

 2.MEFISTOFELE: Giunto sul passo estremo (Boito)4:17 3 June 1917; M 1751/2

 3.LA GIOCONDA: Cielo e mar (Ponchielli)3:24 31 May 1917; M 1756

Transposed down a semitone to D

 4.MANON: Je suis seul! … Ah! fuyez, douce image (Io son solo … Ah! dispar vision) (Massenet)4:23 5 August 1917; M 1794

Transposed down a whole tone to D-flat

 5.CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA: Mamma, quel vino è generoso (Mascagni)4:27 with unidentified soprano, presumably Angela De Angelis

1 July 1917; M 1774

Transposed down a whole tone to G-flat

 6.L’AMICO FRITZ: Suzel, buon dì … Tutto tace [Cherry Duet] (Mascagni) (4)8:13 with Angela De Angelis, soprano

5 October 1919; M 2153/2154

Side 2 transposed down a semitone to A-flat Minor/Major

 7.L’AMICO FRITZ: Ed anche Beppe amò … O amore, o bella luce (Mascagni) (4)4:21 11 November 1917; M 1844

Transposed down a whole tone to E

 8.PAGLIACCI: Bada, Pagliaccio … Un tal gioco, credetemi (Leoncavallo)4:09 with unidentified tenor as ‘The Villager’

11 November 1917; M 1843

Transposed down a semitone to E

 9.PAGLIACCI: Recitar! mentre preso dal delirio … Vesti la giubba (Leoncavallo)4:06 17 April 1921; C 2560

Transposed down a semitone to E-flat Minor

 10.PAGLIACCI: O Colombina (Leoncavallo)2:31 17 April 1921; C 2562

Transposed down a whole tone to G Minor

 11.PAGLIACCI: No! Pagliaccio non son (Leoncavallo)3:38 19 August 1917; M 1803

Transposed down a whole tone to C-sharp Minor

 12.MANON LESCAUT: Donna non vidi mai (Puccini)3:13 17 April 1921; C 2558

Transposed down a whole tone to A-flat

 13.MANON LESCAUT: Tra voi belle (Puccini)2:10 17 April 1921; C 2559

Transposed down a semitone to E-flat

 14.LA BOHÈME: Che gelida manina (Puccini)4:32 18 January 1920; M 2234

Transposed down a whole tone to G-flat

 15.LA BOHÈME: Quest’ è Mimì (Puccini)1:38 15 August 1920; C 2396

Transposed down a whole tone to D Minor

 16.ANDREA CHÉNIER: Colpito qui m’avete … Un dì all’azzurro spazio [Improvviso] (Giordano)5:59 6 February 1921; C 2531/2532

Transposed down a whole tone to A-flat

 17.IRIS: Apri la tua finestra (Mascagni) (4)2:37 7 November 1920; C 2452

Transposed down 3 semitones to D

 18.TOSCA: E lucevan le stelle (Puccini)3:18 18 January 1920; C 2233

Transposed down a semitone to B-flat Minor

 19.FEDORA: Amor ti vieta (Giordano)2:38 29 July 1917; C 1788

Transposed down a whole tone to B-flat

 20.FEDORA: Mia madre, la mia vecchia madre (Giordano)2:43 11 November 1917; C 1846

 21.Marechiare (Tosti; Di Giacomo)3:44 24 September 1922; C 3148

  (1) The Gramophone Company recording ledgers prior to 1909 have been lost and consequently, all De Lucia recording dates up to, and including CD 3 Track 5, are based on deduction.

(2) On 17 November 1907, Gramophone & Typewriter, Ltd. became The Gramophone Company, Ltd. Therefore, in our track listing we have given both company names.

(3) The Phonotype record company used the same number for the matrix and catalogue

(4) De Lucia created this role on stage

Language:

All tracks are sung in Italian

Accompaniment:

CD 1: Tracks 1-15: piano, presumed to be Salvatore Cattone, officially credited on Tracks 2 and 5; Tracks 16-21, 24-31 piano, Carlo Sabajno; Tracks 22-23: piano, Francesco Cilea

CD 2: Tracks 1-2, 5-7, 9-12: piano, Carlo Sabajno; Tracks 3-4, 8, 13-17 orchestra, conducted by Carlo Sabajno; Tracks 18-23: unidentified pianist

CD 3: Tracks 1-5: unidentified pianist; Tracks 6-9: small instrumental ensemble; Track 10: violin, piano, and chorus; Track 11: violin, piano, and mandolin; Track 12: violin, piano, mandolin, and chorus; Tracks 13-14: violin and piano; Track 15: violin, piano, mandolin, and chorus; Tracks 16-23: orchestra, conducted by Salvatore Sassano

(The Gramophone Company recording files list piano as one of the accompanying instruments on CD 3, Tracks 10-15. To our ears, there is no piano evident. The instrument sounds like a guitar with the low E string tuned down.)

CD 4: Tracks 1-16, 18-20: orchestra, conducted by Salvatore Sassano; Track 17: piano; Track 21: mandolins, guitars, and chorus conducted by Raffaele Calace

 

Producer: Jeffrey Miller

Audio Conservation: Ward Marston

Audio Assistance: J. Richard Harris

Photographs: Girvice Archer, Harold Bruder, the Estate of Roger Gross, Charles Mintzer, and André Tubeuf

Booklet notes: Michael Aspinall

Booklet Design: Takeshi Takahashi

 

Marston would like to thank the estate of John Stratton, Stephen R. Clarke, Executor, for its continuing support.

Marston would like to thank Jeffrey Miller, whose gift provided the impetus to expand what was to be a three-CD set to a four-CD set.

Marston would like to to thank Gregor Benko, Mark Falcone, Ramona Fasio, and Rudi van den Bulck for their help in the production of this CD set.

The following selections are re-recorded from copies in the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Laurence C. Witten II in the Yale Collection of Historical Sound Recordings, Yale University Library: CD 1, Track 20 and CD 2, Track 19

Various selections are re-recorded from copies in the collections of Lawrence F. Holdridge, John Humbley, and John Wolfson.

Marston would like to thank Michael E. Henstock, whose definitive book, Fernando De Lucia, Son of Naples, 1860-1925 (London, Duckworth, 1990) was invaluable in the production of this CD set.