Two composers of La Boca are rescued in a new CD
"La Boca y sus compositores clásicos - Arnaldo D’Espósito – Juan
The argentine label Tradition, in its series “Argentinian Classics” brings together works of the classic digest interpreted by contemporary musicians, and edited as “La Boca and their classic composers”, a CD with works of Arnaldo D’Espósito and Juan Francisco Giacobe, both born in the neighborhood and rescued in this elegant edition.
With Nicolás Avellaneda bridge as background of a blue cover and a detailed booklet with biographies of the composers, the interperters and La Boca and Vuelta de Obligado influences in the music, the CD has four plays, with 70 minutes lenght in total. “Love waltz” and “Sonata for violin and piano” correspond to Arnaldo D’Espósito and “Sentimental Proses” and “Plebeian Epitaphs ‘Mother’” to Juan Giacobe. The interpreters are Duilio Marzio (lyrics), Olga Pinchuk and Sebastián Masci (violins), Federico Pereiro (bandoneón), Irene Amerio and Jose Luis Juri (pianoes).
D’Esposito and Giacobbe were born in La Boca in the same year, 1907. The first musician and composer studied piano with teachers as Ernesto Drangosch, Jorge de Lalewicz and orchestral composition with Constantino Gaito, composed his works more emphasized at the same time he worked as pianist of the ballet of the Colón Theatre of Buenos Aires, where he became one of the principal conductors, together with Roberto Kinsky. Fanatic of La Boca, D’Espósito died days before 38 years-old, when he was returning from a football match of his beloved team and got a cold.
Giacobe was defined as a Renaissance man: besides musician he was a philosopher, poet, playwright, regisseur, theatrical director, teacher of piano and of organ, musical critic and member of the National Academy of Sciences of Buenos Aires. He studied in the National Conservatoire of Music, with Floro Ugarte, in the Scala of Milan, and took classes in Japan, the Opera of Paris and in the Sorbonne. When he returned to Argentina, he organized the Provincial Institute of Art and the School of Lyric Art of the Argentine Theatre of La Plata and lyric spectacles in the Theatre Colon of Buenos Aires. He was the director of the High school of Fine Arts of the National University of Cordoba, was the director of the National Conservatoire of Music, the director of the Argentine Theatre of La Plata and of the Theatre Cervantes of Buenos Aires. Only his musical production includes more than two hundred works. He died in 1990.
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More information
- To listen some of the works of the CD, you can visit Tradition website.
