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Napoli Secondo Estratto
''Napoli secondo estratto'' is a studio album by Italian singer Mina, released on 14 November 2003 by PDU and distributed by Sony. Overview The album is a direct continuation of the 1996 album ''Napoli'', which is also filled with covers of Neapolitan songs. This time the singer interprets the Neapolitan classics through mainly orchestral arrangements, giving the impression that the listener is in the theater hall. The album design, as always, was done by Mauro Baletti, the singer lost the album cover to three real Neapolitans, Totò, Tina Pica and Titina De Filippo, they are sitting on the balcony of the opera house waiting for the performance, and Mina herself can only be found in the booklet, she looks out from behind the scenes. Critical reception Paola Maraone from ''Rockol'' stated that Mina "remains the only non-Neapolitan singer who can play Parthenopean classics without looking ridiculous" and noted her "soulful performance". Track listing Personnel * Mina – voc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mina (Italian Singer)
Mina Anna Maria Mazzini (born 25 March 1940) or Mina Anna Quaini (for the Swiss civil registry), known mononymously as Mina, is an Italian-Swiss singer and actress. She was a staple of television variety shows and a dominant figure in Italian pop music from the 1960s to the mid-1970s, known for her three-octave vocal range, the agility of her soprano voice, and her image as an emancipated woman. In performance, Mina combined several modern styles with traditional Italian melodies and swing music, which made her the most versatile pop singer in Italian music. Mina dominated the country's charts for 15 years and reached an unsurpassed level of popularity. She has scored 79 albums and 71 singles on the Italian charts. Mina's TV appearances in 1959 were the first for a female rock and roll singer in Italy. Her loud syncopated singing earned her the nickname "Queen of Screamers". The public also labeled her the "Tigress of Cremona" for her wild gestures and body shakes. When ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armando Trovajoli
Armando Trovajoli (also Trovaioli, 2 September 1917 – 28 February 2013) was an Italian film composer and pianist with over 300 credits as composer and/or conductor, many of them jazz scores for exploitation films of the Commedia all'italiana genre. He collaborated with Vittorio De Sica on a number of projects, including one segment of '' Boccaccio '70''. Trovajoli was also the author of several Italian musicals: among them, '' Rugantino'' and '' Aggiungi un posto a tavola''. Trovajoli was the husband of actress Pier Angeli. He died in Rome at the age of 95 on 28 February 2013. Radio After graduating from the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1948), Trovajoli was entrusted by RAI with the direction of a pop music orchestra, set with 12 violins, 4 violas, 4 cellos, 1 flute, 1 oboe, 1 clarinet, 1 horn, harp, vibraphone, electric guitar, bass, drums and the piano (played by Trovajoli himself). In 1952–53 he collaborated with Piero Piccioni in ''Eclipse'', a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massimo Moriconi (musician)
Massimo Moriconi (born May 20, 1955, in Rome) is an Italian bassist. See also * Glossary of Italian music * Music history of Italy * Music of Italy In Italy, music has traditionally been one of the cultural markers of Italian national and ethnic identity and holds an important position in society and in politics. Italian music innovationin musical scale, harmony, notation, and theatreen ... References External links *http://www.globalbass.com/archives/feb2002/massimo_moriconi.htm Italian double-bassists Male double-bassists Musicians from Rome 21st-century double-bassists 21st-century Italian male musicians 1955 births Living people {{double-bassist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Ferrio
Gianni Ferrio (16 November 1924 – 21 October 2013) was an Italian composer, conductor and music arranger. Life and career Born in Vicenza, Ferrio studied at the conservatories of Vicenza and Venice. Starting in the late 1950s, he was active as a composer of film scores. He composed some 120 soundtracks, mostly for Spaghetti Westerns and commedie sexy all'italiana films. His piece "One Silver Dollar", the main theme to Giorgio Ferroni's '' Blood for a Silver Dollar'' (1965), was later included in the soundtrack of Quentin Tarantino's '' Inglourious Basterds''. Ferrio is also well known for his work in pop music, particularly for his collaboration with Mina, for whom he composed hit songs such as " Parole parole" and wrote arrangements and orchestrations for many songs and albums. The last collaboration with Mina was on her 2012 album ''12 (American Song Book)'', for which Ferrio provided the string arrangements. Ferrio served as conductor for the Sanremo Music Festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salvatore Di Giacomo
Salvatore Di Giacomo (12 March 1860 – 5 April 1934) was an Italian poet, songwriter, playwright and fascist, one of the signatories to the Manifesto of the Fascist Intellectuals. Di Giacomo is credited as being one of those responsible for renewing Neapolitan language poetry at the beginning of the 20th century. The language of Salvatore Di Giacomo is, however, not the everyday Neapolitan language of his contemporaries; it has a distinct 18th-century flavour to it, with archaisms that recall the golden age of Neapolitan culture. This was the period between 1750 and 1800, when Neapolitan was the language of the best-loved form of musical entertainment in Italy, the Neapolitan comic opera. Early career Di Giacomo was born in Naples. He studied medicine briefly, largely to satisfy his father's wishes, but gave it up for the life of a poet. He then founded a literary journal, ''Il Fantasio'', in 1880, and, like many young writers, had a varied apprenticeship, working in a pri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Pasquale Costa
Mario Pasquale Costa (24 July 1858 –27 September 1933) was a prolific Italian composer primarily known for his art songs, Neapolitan songs, and operettas. Costa was born in Taranto to Angelo and Maria Giuseppa ''née '' Malagisi. His father was a customs official, but the Costa family numbered several notable composers and musicians, including Costa's uncle Michael Costa and his great-grandfather Giacomo Tritto. Costa studied composition, piano and singing at the San Pietro a Maiella Conservatory in Naples under another uncle Carlo Costa, Paolo Serrao, and Giuseppe Martucci.Meloncelli, Raoul (1984)"Costa, Pasquale Antonio Cataldo Maria" ''Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani'', Vol. 30. Treccani. Online version retrieved 18 December 2017 .Sanvitale, Francesco (2002''La romanza italiana da salotto'' pp. 302–305. EDT srl. By the age of 17, Costa had already published numerous art songs. Possessed of an attractive tenor voice, he often performed them himself for the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giovanni Capurro
Giovanni Capurro (February 5, 1859 – January 18, 1920) was an Italian poet, best remembered today as the co-creator, with singer/composer Eduardo Di Capua, of the world famous song, "'O Sole mio". Capurro was born in Naples. He made his living as a poet and playwright. He is considered to be among the finest nineteenth-century Italian poets. The actor Viviani gave his first performance in an established theatre, the Teatro Perella in Basso Porto, in ''The Street Urchin'', a sketch by Capurro. In 1898, Giovanni Capurro wrote the words to'' 'O Sole mio'' and asked Eduardo Di Capua (who at the time was in Odessa with his orchestra-violinist father) to set it to music. The song was later presented at Piedigrotta 1898, organized by the ''Round Table'' promoted by the publisher Bideri, and came in second place after a piece called ''Napule Bello!''. But in popular appeal, this result was quickly overturned.'' 'O Sole mio'' became famous. Even so, it made little money for its ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
'O Sole Mio
"O sole mio" () is a well-known Neapolitan song written in 1898. Its Neapolitan language lyrics were written by Giovanni Capurro and the music was composed by Eduardo di Capua (1865–1917) and Alfredo Mazzucchi (1878–1972).. The title translates literally as "my sun" or "my sunshine". The lyrics have been translated to other languages. Lyrics Recordings Jānis Vītiņš O sole mio" has been performed and covered by many artists, including Enrico Caruso, Rosa Ponselle and her sister Carmella, Andrea Bocelli, Beniamino Gigli, Richard Tucker and Mario Lanza. Sergio Franchi recorded this song on his 1962 RCA Victor Red Seal debut album ''Romantic Italian Songs.'' Luciano Pavarotti won the 1980 Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Performance for his rendition of O sole mio". Authorship and copyright For nearly 75 years after its publication, the music of ''O sole mio'' had generally been attributed to Eduardo di Capua alone. According to the traditional account, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eduardo Di Capua
Eduardo Di Capua (May 12, 1865 – October 3, 1917) was a Neapolitan composer, singer and songwriter. Biography He was born in Naples in 1865. He is best known for the song "'O Sole mio". In 1897, di Capua bought a collection of 23 melodies from an obscure composer, Alfredo Mazzucchi. Di Capua developed the piece, and then invited the poet Giovanni Capurro to write lyrics for it. The resulting song has been recorded by many singers, both classical and popular, in both the original Neapolitan and the English adaptation. He also wrote "Marie, Ah Marie" ("O Marie" in English), another Neapolitan song. Eduardo Di Capua died in 1917 in Naples. on ''Dizionario Biografico dell' |
Pino Daniele
Giuseppe Daniele (19 March 1955 – 4 January 2015), known as Pino Daniele, was an Italian singer, songwriter and musician. His influences covered a wide number of genres, including pop, blues, jazz, and Italian and Middle Eastern music. Biography Daniele was born to a working-class family in Naples, his father being a harbor worker. A self-taught guitarist, he began his career as a musician playing for other successful singers of the 1970s. His debut in the Italian music world was in 1977 with the album ''Terra mia'', which proved to be a successful mix of Neapolitan tradition and Blues sounds. Daniele defined his music with the term "tarumbò", which indicated a mix of tarantella, blues and rumba. His lyrics also attracted critical praise: written and sung in an intense Neapolitan, they contained strong and bitter accusations against the social injustices of Naples, as well as Italian society in general, and included melancholic personal themes. Several of the later songs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Napule è
"Napule è" ('Naples is') is an Italian song composed and performed by Pino Daniele. It is considered the signature song of Daniele. Background The song was composed by Daniele in 1973, when he was 18 years old. Daniele initially considered to have it performed by Peppino di Capri. Along with its B-side "'Na tazzulella 'e cafè" and "Cammina Cammina", the song was a last-minute addition to his debut album ''Terra mia''. Recording and release After listening to the song's demo, producers and label decided the song deserved a more rich, orchestral arrangement than the lo-fi arrangements of the other songs of the album, and the task was entrusted to Antonio Sinagra, a Naples Conservatory professor who was fresh from the arrangements for Roberto De Simone's musical ''La Gatta Cenerentola''. Sinagra also composed the oboes and mandolins intro. Jazz musician Amedeo Tommasi played the piano, but asked to be credited as Amedeo Forte. The single was eventually chosen as leading song o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
