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

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Bongiovanni
Release Date
May 3, 2019
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      LEO PORPORA
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Ensemble Animantica
    • PERFORMER
      Andalo, Fomina
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      May 03, 2019
    • UPC
      8007068520329
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      GB5203-2
    • LABEL
      Bongiovanni
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Allegro assai

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    2. II. Andante

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    3. III. Allegro

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    4. I. Adagio

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    5. II. Allegro tempo comodo

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    6. I. Adagio sostenuto

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    7. II. Allegro

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    8. III. Adagio

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    9. IV. Aria prima - V. Aria secunda

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    10. Toccata for keyboard No. 4 (arr. for accordion)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Performer: Giorgio Dellarole

    11. Beatus Vir

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

      Performer: Michele Andalò

    12. Exortum est

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

      Performer: Michele Andalò

    13. Jucundus homo

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

      Performer: Michele Andalò

    14. Dispersit

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

      Performer: Michele Andalò

    15. Gloria

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

      Performer: Michele Andalò

    16. Sicut erat

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

      Performer: Michele Andalò

    17. I. Adagio

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    18. II. Allegro

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    19. III. Affettuoso

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    20. IV. Allegro

      Composer: Nicola Porpora

      Ensemble: Ensemble Animantica

    21. Credidi propter

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Performer: Lucia Schwarz, Michele Andalò, Raffaele Giordani, Matteo Bellotto, Michele Vannelli

    22. Toccata for Keyboard No. 3, "Giga" (arr. for accordion)

      Composer: Leonardo Leo

      Performer: Giorgio Dellarole


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.