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Maestri a Sant'Onofrio: Works by Leo and Porpora / Andalo, Fomina, Ensemble Animantica
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Maestri a Sant'Onofrio: Works by Leo and Porpora / Andalo, Fomina, Ensemble Animantica

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Details

Composer
LEO PORPORA
Artist
Andalo, Fomina
Format
CD
Label
Bongiovanni
Released
May 03, 2019
Catalog #
GB5203-2
UPC
8007068520329

About

The College of Music of Sant’Onofrio, one of the wonders of baroque Naples, was founded in the late 1500s as a foundling institution to train orphans and abandoned children to work as artisans. Within a few years, its educational policy had shifted to musical training and singing and during the 1600s it was home to the finest composers in the city. They transformed the rigidly austere musical geometry of northern Europe into something wholly new, as though infusing the darkness of the north with the immense, intensely bright light of the south. Nicola Porpora was just such a composer. In 1710 the 24 year-old Porpora presented his opera Berenice in Rome with great success. While in the city, Haendel himself saw it and went to congratulate its composer. Porpora wrote a great deal of music for religious purposes and opened a singing school which Farinelli also attended. Leonardo Leo is the other great composer from Sant’Onofrio. Almost a decade younger than Porpora, a combination of overwork and delicate health killed Leo at the relatively young age of fifty. He had already produced a number of new operas by 1738 when his reputation for music earned him the commission of a lifetime to write an opera to celebrate the wedding of Charles III and Maria Amalia of Saxony. Leo put everything else to one side and took as his subject the wedding of Psyche and Cupid. Yet despite the success of his opera for the imperial wedding, Leo continued to write music – both sacred and opera, whether serious or comic. Unsurprisingly, his name was a household word throughout Europe.

Tracklist 22 tracks

  1. 1 I. Allegro assai 01:57
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Allegro assai
    Duration
    01:57
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  2. 2 II. Andante 02:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante
    Duration
    02:14
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  3. 3 III. Allegro 01:31
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro
    Duration
    01:31
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  4. 4 I. Adagio 01:17
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    01:17
    Composer
    Leonardo Leo
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  5. 5 II. Allegro tempo comodo 01:45
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Allegro tempo comodo
    Duration
    01:45
    Composer
    Leonardo Leo
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  6. 6 I. Adagio sostenuto 02:01
    Track
    6
    Title
    I. Adagio sostenuto
    Duration
    02:01
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  7. 7 II. Allegro 02:43
    Track
    7
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    02:43
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  8. 8 III. Adagio 01:47
    Track
    8
    Title
    III. Adagio
    Duration
    01:47
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  9. 9 IV. Aria prima - V. Aria secunda 03:57
    Track
    9
    Title
    IV. Aria prima - V. Aria secunda
    Duration
    03:57
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  10. 10 Toccata for keyboard No. 4 (arr. for accordion) 02:15
    Track
    10
    Title
    Toccata for keyboard No. 4 (arr. for accordion)
    Duration
    02:15
    Composer
    Leonardo Leo
    Performer
    Giorgio Dellarole
  11. 11 Beatus Vir 03:32
    Track
    11
    Title
    Beatus Vir
    Duration
    03:32
    Composer
    Leonardo Leo
    Performer
    Michele Andalò
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  12. 12 Exortum est 02:28
    Track
    12
    Title
    Exortum est
    Duration
    02:28
    Composer
    Leonardo Leo
    Performer
    Michele Andalò
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  13. 13 Jucundus homo 03:44
    Track
    13
    Title
    Jucundus homo
    Duration
    03:44
    Composer
    Leonardo Leo
    Performer
    Michele Andalò
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  14. 14 Dispersit 02:49
    Track
    14
    Title
    Dispersit
    Duration
    02:49
    Composer
    Leonardo Leo
    Performer
    Michele Andalò
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  15. 15 Gloria 00:58
    Track
    15
    Title
    Gloria
    Duration
    00:58
    Composer
    Leonardo Leo
    Performer
    Michele Andalò
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  16. 16 Sicut erat 01:42
    Track
    16
    Title
    Sicut erat
    Duration
    01:42
    Composer
    Leonardo Leo
    Performer
    Michele Andalò
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  17. 17 I. Adagio 03:18
    Track
    17
    Title
    I. Adagio
    Duration
    03:18
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  18. 18 II. Allegro 04:01
    Track
    18
    Title
    II. Allegro
    Duration
    04:01
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  19. 19 III. Affettuoso 01:24
    Track
    19
    Title
    III. Affettuoso
    Duration
    01:24
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  20. 20 IV. Allegro 01:52
    Track
    20
    Title
    IV. Allegro
    Duration
    01:52
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Ensemble
    Ensemble Animantica
  21. 21 Credidi propter 10:04
    Track
    21
    Title
    Credidi propter
    Duration
    10:04
    Composer
    Leonardo Leo
    Performer
    Lucia Schwarz, Michele Andalò, Raffaele Giordani, Matteo Bellotto, Michele Vannelli
  22. 22 Toccata for Keyboard No. 3, "Giga" (arr. for accordion) 03:36
    Track
    22
    Title
    Toccata for Keyboard No. 3, "Giga" (arr. for accordion)
    Duration
    03:36
    Composer
    Leonardo Leo
    Performer
    Giorgio Dellarole