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Neapolitan Cantatas
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Neapolitan Cantatas

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Composer
HASSE MANCINI PORPORA PORSI
Artist
Dorigo, Ledda, Catania, Morelli
Format
CD
Label
Brilliant Classics
Released
Mar 15, 2019
Catalog #
BRI95778
UPC
5028421957784

About

The works in this collection attest to the high standard of music-making in Naples. The composers here recorded were at the forefront of the achievements of Neapolitan music in the first half of the 18th century, the golden age of music production in the southern Italian centre. And the Neapolitan style at this time was fashionable beyond the borders of Italy, as well. Among all the composers presented, only Mancini lived and worked almost all his life in Naples. The others spent their lives travelling or serving foreign courts. This programme exploits the felicitous pairing of the voice with flute, two instruments similarly tied to the expressivity of human breath. Throughout this programme a baroque transverse flute, or ‘traverso’, is used, either called for specifically or substituted for the recorder. When these pieces were written the two types of flute still existed alongside each other as equals, as they had done for centuries before the transverse variety began to dominate later in the 18th century. Use of the viola da gamba for the bass part also finds justification in Naples. While in Rome the instrument had almost completely disappeared by the first half of the 17th century, it endured in Naples and continued to be used. Several mid-18th-century viole da gamba, preserved to this day, in various sizes by luthiers from the Neapolitan Gaglian family attest to the much later persistence of this instrument in that area.

Tracklist 16 tracks

  1. 1 Aria: Passa di pena in pena 04:16
    Track
    1
    Title
    Aria: Passa di pena in pena
    Duration
    04:16
    Composer
    Johann Adolf Hasse
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  2. 2 Recitative: Dunque che far dovrai 00:48
    Track
    2
    Title
    Recitative: Dunque che far dovrai
    Duration
    00:48
    Composer
    Johann Adolf Hasse
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  3. 3 Aria: Sospiri del mio seno 05:22
    Track
    3
    Title
    Aria: Sospiri del mio seno
    Duration
    05:22
    Composer
    Johann Adolf Hasse
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  4. 4 Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria: La costanza con amore 04:08
    Track
    4
    Title
    Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria: La costanza con amore
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Giuseppe Porsile
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  5. 5 Freme il mar, e col sussurro 04:35
    Track
    5
    Title
    Freme il mar, e col sussurro
    Duration
    04:35
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  6. 6 Fileno abbandonato 01:00
    Track
    6
    Title
    Fileno abbandonato
    Duration
    01:00
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  7. 7 La pastorella lascia la villa 05:18
    Track
    7
    Title
    La pastorella lascia la villa
    Duration
    05:18
    Composer
    Nicola Porpora
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  8. 8 Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria: È prigioniero questo mio core 03:35
    Track
    8
    Title
    Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria: È prigioniero questo mio core
    Duration
    03:35
    Composer
    Giuseppe Porsile
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  9. 9 Aria: Non lasciarmi o bella speme 05:21
    Track
    9
    Title
    Aria: Non lasciarmi o bella speme
    Duration
    05:21
    Composer
    Anonymous
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  10. 10 Recitative: Togli dalla mia mente 01:07
    Track
    10
    Title
    Recitative: Togli dalla mia mente
    Duration
    01:07
    Composer
    Anonymous
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  11. 11 Aria: Non m'è si grave la lontananza 04:08
    Track
    11
    Title
    Aria: Non m'è si grave la lontananza
    Duration
    04:08
    Composer
    Anonymous
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  12. 12 Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria: Ho visto al pianto mio 04:42
    Track
    12
    Title
    Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria: Ho visto al pianto mio
    Duration
    04:42
    Composer
    Giuseppe Porsile
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  13. 13 Recitative: Filli mia 00:35
    Track
    13
    Title
    Recitative: Filli mia
    Duration
    00:35
    Composer
    Francesco Mancini
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  14. 14 Aria: Io sono in braccio al duolo 03:03
    Track
    14
    Title
    Aria: Io sono in braccio al duolo
    Duration
    03:03
    Composer
    Francesco Mancini
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  15. 15 Recitative: Ma no, la pace tua 00:28
    Track
    15
    Title
    Recitative: Ma no, la pace tua
    Duration
    00:28
    Composer
    Francesco Mancini
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli
  16. 16 Aria: No, non lo far cupido 04:04
    Track
    16
    Title
    Aria: No, non lo far cupido
    Duration
    04:04
    Composer
    Francesco Mancini
    Performer
    Antonello Dorigo, Giuseppina Ledda, Fabio Catania, Pierluigi Morelli