Leo: Dalla morte alla vita di S. Maria Maddalena / Prontera, Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

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July 24, 2020
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LEO, LEONARDO
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      July 24, 2020
    • UPC
      8007068257928
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GB2579/80-2
    • LABEL
      Bongiovanni
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. Act I: Sinfonia, dall'Oratorio Santa

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    2. Act I Scene 1: Aria: È lampo, è strale (Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    3. Act I Scene 1: Recitaive: Livia. Signora (Maddalena, Livia)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska, Gian Luca Pasolini

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    4. Act I Scene 1: Aria: Di nastri e fiori (Livia)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    5. Act I Scene 2: Si partìo la padrona, anzi mia figlia (Livia) - Scene 3: Ah, ah! (Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    6. Act I Scene 4: Aria: Vì, vì chi vole fare (Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    7. Act I Scene 5: Recitative: Dunque, a tanto s'avanza (Materno)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Enrico Torre

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    8. Act I Scene 5: Aria: Nume bendato (Materno)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Enrico Torre

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    9. Act I Scene 5: Recitative: Eccola, ma con lei (Materno, Maddalena, Demonio)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Enrico Torre, Agata Bienkowska, Carlo Torriani

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    10. Act I Scene 6: Aria: Sapete perchè bella (Demonio)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Carlo Torriani

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    11. Act I Scene 6: Recitative: È vero ma (Maddalena, Demonio)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska, Carlo Torriani

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    12. Act I Scene 9: Aria: Pupille vezzose (Lico)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Paolo Lopez

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    13. Act I Scene 9: Recitative: Io creo ca se volissimo (Antuono, Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Giuseppe Naviglio, Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    14. Act I Scene 10: Aria: Se quel cor (Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    15. Act I Scene 12: Recitative: Vorrei signora Livia (Angiolo, Livia)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Aurelio Schiavoni, Gian Luca Pasolini

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    16. Act I Scene 12: Aria: Amore e gelosia (Angiolo)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Aurelio Schiavoni

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    17. Act I Scene 13: Aria: Amore è un certo foco (Materno)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Enrico Torre

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    18. Act I Scene 13: Recitative: Idolo mio (Materno)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Enrico Torre

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    19. Act I Scene 14: Aria: So che sei tutto il mio core (Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    20. Act I Scene 14: Recitative: Sentitemi (Materno, Lico, Maddalena) - Scene 15: Signora ai vostri piedi (Lico)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Enrico Torre, Paolo Lopez, Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    21. Act I Scene 16: Aria: E perchè sorte tiranna (Lico)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Paolo Lopez

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    22. Act I Scene 16: Aria: Amor che mi fa piangere (Livia)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    23. Act I Scene 16: Recitative: Della padrona mia (Livia, Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    24. Act I Scene 16: Duet: Prendi pur quel legno (Livia, Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    25. Act II Scene 1 : Recitative: Sin da quell'ora (Angiolo, Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Aurelio Schiavoni, Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    26. Act II Scene 1: Aria: Di tanta cortesia (Angiolo)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Aurelio Schiavoni

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    27. Act II Scene 1: Recitative: Materno, oh Dio (Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    28. Act II Scene 1: Aria: L'amore che cos'è (Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    29. Act II Scene 2: Recitative: Mi preparo all’attacco (Demonio, Maddalena, Materno)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Carlo Torriani, Agata Bienkowska, Enrico Torre

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    30. Act II Scene 3: Aria: Da fiera gelosia (Materno)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Enrico Torre

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    31. Act II Scene 3: Recitative: Angiolo, t'assicuro (Maddalena, Lico

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska, Paolo Lopez

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    32. Act II Scene 5: Duet: Se dico che t'adoro (Maddalena, Angiolo)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska, Aurelio Schiavoni

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    33. Act II Scene 5: Recitative: La gelosia mi rode (Materno, Lico, Livia, Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Enrico Torre, Paolo Lopez, Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    34. Act II: Scene 9 Duet: Sei pentito? (Livia, Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    35. Act II Scene 10: Recitative: Solo. Se non sa quanto (Demonio)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Enrico Torre

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    36. Act II Scene 10: Aria: Fu Circe (Demonio)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Carlo Torriani

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    37. Act II Scene 12: Recitative: Vieni e assiditi meco (Maddalena, Angiolo) - Scene 13: Eccomi a’ vostri piedi (e dall’amante mai non si disgiunse.) (Lico)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska, Aurelio Schiavoni, Paolo Lopez

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    38. Act II Scene 14: Recitative: Finitela una volta (Lico)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Paolo Lopez

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    39. Act II Scene 14: Aria: Aprimi il petto ingrata (Lico)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Paolo Lopez

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    40. Act II Scene 16: Aria: Con la forza e con gl’inganni (Demonio)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Carlo Torriani

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    41. Act II Scene 17: Recitative: Prendi o caro (Livia, Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    42. Act II Scene 17: Duet: Refunne Livia mia (Livia, Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    43. Act II Scene 17: Recitative: Dico il vero (Livia, Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    44. Act II Scene 17: Aria: Ammore c’ha lo core (Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    45. Act II Scene 17: Recitative and Aria: Antuono … Ahi vino maledetto (Livia)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    46. Act III Scene 1: Aria: Di Cupido il mar infido (Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    47. Act III Scene 3: Aria: Il nemico che mi fa guerra (Lico)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Paolo Lopez

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    48. Act III Scene 3: Recitative: Spiegati (Angiolo, Lico, Antuono, Maddalena, Matterno) - Scene 4: Pugnerò tuo malgrado. (Lico)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Aurelio Schiavoni, Paolo Lopez, Giuseppe Naviglio, Agata Bienkowska, Enrico Torre

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    49. Act III Scene 5: Aria: Femmene vroccolose (Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    50. Act III: Funeral March - Scene 9: Recitative: Ahu (Antuono, Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Giuseppe Naviglio, Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    51. Act III Scene 9: Aria: Se dunque o misera (Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    52. Act III Scene 15: Recitative: Maddalena. Che vedo (Maddalena, Materno)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska, Enrico Torre

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    53. Act III Scene 15: Aria: Ecco ahimé (Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    54. Act III Scene 15: Recitative: Misero, gioco restai (Demonio)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Carlo Torriani

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    55. Act III Scene 15: Duet: Perduta mia speranza (Demonio, Angiolo)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Carlo Torriani, Aurelio Schiavoni

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    56. Act III Scene 15: Quartet: Vola o core (Angelo, Maria Maddalena e materno, Lico e Livia, Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Aurelio Schiavoni, Agata Bienkowska, Enrico Torre, Paolo Lopez, Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    57. Act III Scene 17: Recitative: Del maritaggio (Livia, Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    58. Act III Scene 17: Aria: A me questo (Livia)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    59. Act III Scene 17: Recitative: Razza maledetta (Livia, Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    60. Act III Scene 17: Duet: Se ti giungo (Livia, Antuono)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Gian Luca Pasolini, Giuseppe Naviglio

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    61. Act III Last Scene: Aria: Dell'inferno la vana follia (Angiolo)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Aurelio Schiavoni

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    62. Act III Last Scene: Recitative: Viva, viva Gesù (Angiolo, Materno)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Aurelio Schiavoni, Enrico Torre

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    63. Act III Last Scene: Aria: Meritar come poss'io (Maddalena)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera

    64. Act III Last Scene: Final Chorus: Correte a Maddalena (Tutti)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Orchestra Barocca la Confraternita de Musici

      Performer: Agata Bienkowska

      Conductor: Cosimo Prontera


The present recording brings to a fitting conclusion a long process of research, study and performance of a hitherto lost and forgotten 18th century musical work from Italy. The composer, Leonardo Leo, was born in 1694 in San Vito dei Normanni (Brindisi) and died some 50 years later in Naples. One of the greatest of the so-called Neapolitan School, he had a major impact on music teaching in Europe. Already a fully-fledged composer, in 1722 the young Leo set to music the sacred work Dalla morte alla vita di Santa Maria Maddalena eremita on commission from the town council of Atrani, a small attractive coastal location near Amalfi, to celebrate the patron saint Mary Magdalen. After this performance the work was never mentioned again and all catalogues of Leonardo Leo’s output stated that the manuscript score was lost. In fact, a copy of it had travelled to southern France and reappeared in 2009 in a Paris bookshop. The Leonardo Leo Centre of Studies and Documentation acquired the manuscript in 2012. The manuscript comprises some 200 pages, many of them clearly in Leonardo Leo’s own hand, and was scrupulously transcribed with a view to correct performance practice. This was seen on several occasions in 2019 when the work was staged, albeit with several numbers removed, of which the present album is a faithful live recording. The road that led to this result was beset with many difficulties but the great determination of all those concerned beat the odds and has added a work of great value to Leonardo Leo’s surviving output and an invaluable source to knowledge of sacred music performance in the first half of the 18th century.