アンジェロ・フランチェスコ・ラヴァニーノが音楽を担当した映画『DELITTO A POSILLIPO』(1967年)のステレオ・オリジナル・スコア完全盤が世界初リリース！ この映画は、ナポリ出身のエグゼクティブ・プロデューサー、レナート・パラヴィチーニが監督した唯一の作品で、イタリアの有名人アスンタ・“プペッタ”・マレスカ（プペッタとは「小さな人形」という意味）が唯一の映画出演を果たし、元イタリア人モデルのジャンカルロ・デル・ドゥーカは、そのフォトジェニックな美貌から1960年代に映画界入りした。
『DELITTO A POSILLIPO』は、女性スターの知名度を利用しようとした気取らない低予算作品だったが、ラヴァニーノはこの作品のために完全なシンフォニック・スコアを作曲することができ、そのみずみずしいロマンティシズムは演出の強引さをはるかに超越している。ラヴァニーノは、主にナポリ風味の強い大編成の弦楽器セクションのために、マンドリン、ハープ、ギターを伴う非常に情熱的な憧れとノスタルジックな曲を書いたので、音楽の大部分はモノ・テーマであり、この映画の多くのラブシーンを通して多くのバリエーションで聴くことができる。加えて、プペッタの祖母のための穏やかで切ないメロディーや、プペッタの嫉妬と失望を中心としたシーンのための陰鬱で悲劇的なニュアンスもある。
ラヴァニーノ・シリーズの17枚目となるこの興味深いCDプロジェクトは、作曲家の3人の娘、ビアンカ、イウディカ、アレッサンドラ・ラヴァニーノの寛大な協力のおかげで実現したもので、彼らは『DELITTO A POSILLIPO』のオリジナル・ステレオ・マスターテープのオープンリールテープコピーを個人的なアーカイブとして持っており、私たちはそれを使用することを許された。ライナーノーツと映画のカラー写真が掲載された16ページのブックレットが付いたCDエディションは400枚限定盤。 --- レーベルより（機会翻訳）
Alhambra Records proudly presents on this CD the world premiere release of Angelo Francesco Lavagnino’s complete original score in stereo for the movie DELITTO A POSILLIPO from 1967 which was an odd mixture of various genres - both melodrama and crime movie at the same time. It was the sole picture directed by the former Neapolitan executive producer Renato Parravicini and it starred the Italian celebrity Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca - her nickname Pupetta means “little doll” - in her only film appearance and the former Italian model Giancarlo Del Duca who entered the film business during the 1960s mainly due to his photogenic good looks.
In real life the so-called “Lady Camorra” Pupetta Maresca (1935-2021) had been a convicted murderer - she had made international newspaper headlines in 1955 when she had killed the murderer of her husband in Naples - and was pardoned in 1965, just two years before her film performance. Pupetta actually plays herself in this semi-autobiograpical love drama so that fact and fiction get intricately mixed up. Therefore wrong accusations which lead to her imprisonment - the Pupetta in the movie is supected of having murdered the employer - the night club owner Liz - of her husband Roberto whereas she believes him to be the culprit -, play an important role and just as it had happened in her real life she gives birth to her first child in prison. It is almost as if Pupetta wanted to vinidicate her former deeds through this movie so that in the end her inncoence is proved and the love couple even gets reunited outside of the prison doors.
Although DELITTO A POSILLIPO was just an unpretentious low-budget production which tried to exploit the notoriety of its female star, Lavagnino was able to compose a fully symphonic score for it which due to its lush romanticism far transcends the heavy-handedness of the direction. For the most part the music is mono-thematic as Lavagnino wrote a very passionate yearning and nostalgic tune mainly for a large string section with a strong Neapolitan flavour and therefore accompanied by mandolins, harps and guitar which can be heard in a lot of variants throughout the many love scenes of the film. In addition, there is a gentle and wistful melody for Pupetta´s grandmother and some more brooding and tragic overtones for those sequences centered around Pupetta´s jealousy and disappointment.
As the score itself is not a very long one, we have added as a bonus on the CD the pastoral and bucolic score Lavagnino had written for the otherwise silent short documentary CONCERTO D´AUTUNNO (AUTUMN CONCERTO) in 1955 which had been directed by Antonio Petrucci. This documentary with impressions of natural landscapes in Italy during the autumn season gave the composer the rare opportunity to write a memorable small symphonic work without any disturbing dialogues or sound effects.
This interesting CD project - the 17th CD in our Lavagnino series - has only been possible thanks to the generous support of the three daughters of the composer - Bianca, Iudica and Alessandra Lavagnino -, who still had open reel tape copies of the original stereo master tapes of DELITTO A POSILLIPO in their personal archive which we were allowed to use. Our CD edition which contains a 16-page booklet with extensive liner notes and colour stills from the movie will be limited to 400 copies.
トラックリスト
01. Main Title 2:11 02. Rendezvous (Love Scene) 3:17 03. Pupetta´s Grandmother 0:42 04. The New Home 2:57 05. The Wedding 1:06 06. Captured in London 1:04 07. Csardas Dance 1:27 08. Night Club 0:48 09. Liz and Roberto 1:19 10. Discordance and Jealousy 1:32 11. Pupetta´s Disappointment 1:31 12. After the Murder 0:58 13. Newspaper Montage 0:54 14. Pupetta and Her Baby 0:42 15. Solving the Puzzle 0:51 16. On the Way to the Prison 2:39 17. Reconciliation 1:13 BONUS TRACK 18. Concerto d´autunno 8:35
アンジェロ・フランチェスコ・ラヴァニーノが音楽を担当した映画『DELITTO A POSILLIPO』(1967年)のステレオ・オリジナル・スコア完全盤が世界初リリース！
トラックリストこの映画は、ナポリ出身のエグゼクティブ・プロデューサー、レナート・パラヴィチーニが監督した唯一の作品で、イタリアの有名人アスンタ・“プペッタ”・マレスカ（プペッタとは「小さな人形」という意味）が唯一の映画出演を果たし、元イタリア人モデルのジャンカルロ・デル・ドゥーカは、そのフォトジェニックな美貌から1960年代に映画界入りした。
実生活では、いわゆる “カモッラ夫人”プペッタ・マレスカ（1935-2021）は有罪判決を受けた殺人犯であり、1955年にナポリで夫を殺した犯人を殺して国際的な新聞の見出しを飾った。プペッタはこの半自伝的恋愛ドラマで実際に彼女自身を演じており、事実と虚構が複雑に入り混じっている。そのため、彼女が投獄されるきっかけとなった間違った告発（映画の中のプペッタは、夫ロベルトの雇い主であるナイトクラブのオーナー、リズを殺害したことになっているが、彼女は彼が犯人だと信じている）が重要な役割を果たし、実生活でもそうであったように、彼女は獄中で最初の子供を出産する。プペッタはこの映画を通して、自分のかつての行いを葡萄酒に漬けたかったかのようで、最後には彼女の無実が証明され、愛の夫婦は刑務所の外で再会する。
『DELITTO A POSILLIPO』は、女性スターの知名度を利用しようとした気取らない低予算作品だったが、ラヴァニーノはこの作品のために完全なシンフォニック・スコアを作曲することができ、そのみずみずしいロマンティシズムは演出の強引さをはるかに超越している。ラヴァニーノは、主にナポリ風味の強い大編成の弦楽器セクションのために、マンドリン、ハープ、ギターを伴う非常に情熱的な憧れとノスタルジックな曲を書いたので、音楽の大部分はモノ・テーマであり、この映画の多くのラブシーンを通して多くのバリエーションで聴くことができる。加えて、プペッタの祖母のための穏やかで切ないメロディーや、プペッタの嫉妬と失望を中心としたシーンのための陰鬱で悲劇的なニュアンスもある。
ラヴァニーノは、1955年にアントニオ・ペトルッチが監督したサイレントの短編ドキュメンタリー『CONCERTO D´AUTUNNO（秋のコンチェルト）』のために、牧歌的で牧歌的なスコアを書いている。このドキュメンタリーは、秋のイタリアの自然風景を描いたもので、台詞や効果音のない印象的な小交響曲を作曲する貴重な機会となった。
ラヴァニーノ・シリーズの17枚目となるこの興味深いCDプロジェクトは、作曲家の3人の娘、ビアンカ、イウディカ、アレッサンドラ・ラヴァニーノの寛大な協力のおかげで実現したもので、彼らは『DELITTO A POSILLIPO』のオリジナル・ステレオ・マスターテープのオープンリールテープコピーを個人的なアーカイブとして持っており、私たちはそれを使用することを許された。ライナーノーツと映画のカラー写真が掲載された16ページのブックレットが付いたCDエディションは400枚限定盤。 --- レーベルより（機会翻訳）
Alhambra Records proudly presents on this CD the world premiere release of Angelo Francesco Lavagnino’s complete original score in stereo for the movie DELITTO A POSILLIPO from 1967 which was an odd mixture of various genres - both melodrama and crime movie at the same time. It was the sole picture directed by the former Neapolitan executive producer Renato Parravicini and it starred the Italian celebrity Assunta “Pupetta” Maresca - her nickname Pupetta means “little doll” - in her only film appearance and the former Italian model Giancarlo Del Duca who entered the film business during the 1960s mainly due to his photogenic good looks.
In real life the so-called “Lady Camorra” Pupetta Maresca (1935-2021) had been a convicted murderer - she had made international newspaper headlines in 1955 when she had killed the murderer of her husband in Naples - and was pardoned in 1965, just two years before her film performance. Pupetta actually plays herself in this semi-autobiograpical love drama so that fact and fiction get intricately mixed up. Therefore wrong accusations which lead to her imprisonment - the Pupetta in the movie is supected of having murdered the employer - the night club owner Liz - of her husband Roberto whereas she believes him to be the culprit -, play an important role and just as it had happened in her real life she gives birth to her first child in prison. It is almost as if Pupetta wanted to vinidicate her former deeds through this movie so that in the end her inncoence is proved and the love couple even gets reunited outside of the prison doors.
Although DELITTO A POSILLIPO was just an unpretentious low-budget production which tried to exploit the notoriety of its female star, Lavagnino was able to compose a fully symphonic score for it which due to its lush romanticism far transcends the heavy-handedness of the direction. For the most part the music is mono-thematic as Lavagnino wrote a very passionate yearning and nostalgic tune mainly for a large string section with a strong Neapolitan flavour and therefore accompanied by mandolins, harps and guitar which can be heard in a lot of variants throughout the many love scenes of the film. In addition, there is a gentle and wistful melody for Pupetta´s grandmother and some more brooding and tragic overtones for those sequences centered around Pupetta´s jealousy and disappointment.
As the score itself is not a very long one, we have added as a bonus on the CD the pastoral and bucolic score Lavagnino had written for the otherwise silent short documentary CONCERTO D´AUTUNNO (AUTUMN CONCERTO) in 1955 which had been directed by Antonio Petrucci. This documentary with impressions of natural landscapes in Italy during the autumn season gave the composer the rare opportunity to write a memorable small symphonic work without any disturbing dialogues or sound effects.
This interesting CD project - the 17th CD in our Lavagnino series - has only been possible thanks to the generous support of the three daughters of the composer - Bianca, Iudica and Alessandra Lavagnino -, who still had open reel tape copies of the original stereo master tapes of DELITTO A POSILLIPO in their personal archive which we were allowed to use. Our CD edition which contains a 16-page booklet with extensive liner notes and colour stills from the movie will be limited to 400 copies.
01. Main Title 2:11
02. Rendezvous (Love Scene) 3:17
03. Pupetta´s Grandmother 0:42
04. The New Home 2:57
05. The Wedding 1:06
06. Captured in London 1:04
07. Csardas Dance 1:27
08. Night Club 0:48
09. Liz and Roberto 1:19
10. Discordance and Jealousy 1:32
11. Pupetta´s Disappointment 1:31
12. After the Murder 0:58
13. Newspaper Montage 0:54
14. Pupetta and Her Baby 0:42
15. Solving the Puzzle 0:51
16. On the Way to the Prison 2:39
17. Reconciliation 1:13
BONUS TRACK
18. Concerto d´autunno 8:35