Laboccetta: A Tenor Cellist

Romantic miniatures by a forgotten Italian cellist and composer: the first album ever dedicated to the music of Domenico Laboccetta.

Composer: Domenico Laboccetta
Artists: Matteo Malagoli (cello solo)
Lisa De Polo (piano)
Cristina Centa (harp)
Yukiko Shimizu (soprano)
Raffaele Giordani (tenor)
Ginevra Matteo (2nd cello)
Matteo Malagoli, Alan Dario, Marta Storer, Tosca Storer (cellos)
Letizia Da Lozz (double bass)

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Born to a poor family in the Sicilian town of Messina, Domenico Laboccetta (1823-1896) was entrusted to the care of an orphanage where his musical talents rapidly revealed themselves as a child. At the age of seven he made an appearance in concert at the Teatro Nuovo in Messina, and soon won a scholarship to study gratis at the conservatoire in Naples. At just 18, he became principal cellist of the Teatro San Carlo, at a time when the opera house was known across Europe for staging and advancing the works of bel canto composers such as Donizetti and Bellini.

Through this experience, Laboccetta developed a superb tenor voice alongside his cello playing, and soon began taking lead roles in those bel canto masterpieces such
as Bellini’s La Sonnambula. He went on to tour Europe and America in the 1850s, but eventually settled back in his adopted home of Naples, where he became professor of cello at the conservatoire in 1877, and passed on his mastery of the instrument to students for almost the next 20 years until his death.

In Laboccetta, the cellist and indefatigable researcher Matteo Malagoli has turned up another remarkable figure down the byways of cello history. His booklet essay introduces Laboccetta’s eventful life, providing invaluable context to these miniatures written for salon performances among friends and patrons in Neapolitan musical life in the later decades of the 19th century – music written above all to charm and entertain.

‘Deserves the attention of listeners intrigued by history and appreciative of fine playing. It’s an album that will make a genuine contribution to any collector’s album hoard. Album leaves, romanzas and instrumental songs are scored for cello and piano or cello and harp, but there is also a ‘Notturnino’ for two cellos and piano. More substantial is a cycle of four songs for soprano, tenor, cello and piano: all beautifully evocative pieces with an affectingly folk-like simplicity of expression.
Tracklist:
Domenico Laboccetta:
00:00:00 Il Marinaro Little Duet, Op. 50 (Dedicated to Nunziatina
Lombardi)
00:06:49 Ninna nanna in G Major (Dedicated to Angioletta Truffi)
00:12:03 Barcarola in A Minor (dedicated to Father Mauro Liberatore)
00:17:51 Notturnino in G Minor
00:23:05 Melodia in D Minor (Dedicated to Luigi Filiasi)
00:28:52 Romanza in C Major (Dedicated to Enrico Scognamillo)
00:33:59 Al chiaro di luna (Dedicated to Adolfo Zingaropoli)
00:38:13 Tristezza melodia in D Minor (Dedicated to Gaspare Giacomo Bischoff)
00:46:00 Cosetta in C Major (Dedicated to Federico Raffaele)
Quatre morceaux:
00:52:16 I. La speranza [The Hope]
00:56:54 II. L’abbandonata [The abandoned One]
01:01:58 III. L’invito [The Invite]
01:06:23 IV. Il pescatore [The Fisherman]
01:10:56 Andante sostenuto (Dedicated to H. E. D. Pedro Alvarez de Toledo Marquis de Casafuerte)
01:14:47 Il poveretto [The Poor Fellow] (dedicated to Federico Raffaele)
01:21:19 Il rimprovero [The Reproach]
01:25:10 La zingara [The Gipsy]

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