Raffaele Calace IX Preludio Mandoloncello - Original Record

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Raffaele Calace IX Preludio Mandoloncello - Original Record
(Liuto cantabile : 10 strings mandocello)
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Raffaele Calace (1863 - 1934) was an Italian mandolin player, composer, and luthier.
Calace was born in Naples, Italy, the son of Antonio Calace, a successful instrument maker. He initially trained to be a musician, discovered the mandolin, and soon became a virtuoso.
After Calace graduated with high honors from the Regio Conservatorio di Musica in Naples, he set out to elevate the mandolin's place in music. To achieve this, he toured Europe and Japan, giving concerts on the Neapolitan mandolin and liuto cantabile.
The liuto cantabile is a bass variant of the mandolin family that scholars believe Neapolitan luthiers of the Vinaccia family created in the last decade of the 19th century, and that Raffaele Calace subsequently perfected. Raffaele Calace made three long-playing phonograph records on which he plays mandolin and liuto cantabile.
Raffaele Calace wrote about 200 compositions for mandolin. These include concert works for mandolin solo and compositions for mandolin and other instruments-duets with piano, trio combinations with mandola and guitar, the Romantic Mandolin Quartet (two mandolins, mandola, and guitar), and quintets.
Calace also wrote pedagogical works, including a mandolin method and a method for playing the liuto cantabile. The mandolin method was published in 1910 and elaborates on the 18th-century Italian mandolin tutors by Giovanni Battista Gervasio (c. 1725-c. 1785), Gabriele Leone (c. 1725-c. 1790) and others. It shows the development of the traditional Italian playing style.
The Calace school forms a bridge between other modern methods for mandolin, such as those by Raffaele Calace's countryman Silvio Ranieri (1882-1956), a Roman virtuoso who settled in Brussels, and the American-based Italian mandolinist Giuseppe Pettine (1874-1966).
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[@ensemblenapulitanata2047]

Excellent to hear Raffaele Calace playing his prélude for mandocello!

[@staccanapoli]

Great !!

[@alexandrastrnz5533]

Thanks to share this Calace record!

[@grancasino9576]

Wow, incredible virtuoso!

[@marcodepinna2874]

Fantastic...👍🙏🙌🎼😊🎼🎼🎼🎼

[@themandolinworld]

Many thanks for your comment Marco!

[@FabioGallucci1980]

😮😮😮

[@Mandolin1944]

What a time capsule of a recording - the man lived from the US Civil War until 1934 so this recording must be from the 1920s perhaps? So amazing. A mandocello is almost an impossible instrument to make --getting those pitch ranges covered with all the compromises between the nut width, the string gauges, the separation of strings in a course, and separation of the courses per se and then the instrument is 2 orders of magnitude harder to play than a mandolin yet he went over it like butter!

[@sandywinfield9406]

Seems like he was the Italian master of Mandolin composition
and performance. Somewhat of a counter part to Segovia and the Spanish guitar masters.

[@themandolinworld]

Yes Calace is the most important neapolitan Italian mandolin personality.
Segovia was “only” a great guitar player, but Calace was also luthier, composer, pedagogue and publisher !
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[@thaneglenn]

Where do you get these recordings of Calace playing? Are they available on an album or albums for public purchase?

[@themandolinworld]

It cames from an old LP and it is not more published and purchasable.
You can find here in the channel many recordings in the Playlist Old Mandolin