Leo - Porpora: Maestri a Sant'Onofrioa
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.
NICOLA PORPORA • LEONARDO LEO
Maestri a Sant'Onofrio di Napoli
LEONARDO LEO· Trio con violini e basso in re maggiore
1. Adagio [1:57]
2.Allegro tempo comodo [2:14]
NICOLA PORPORA· Sinfonia con violini, viola e basso in la maggiore
3. Allegro assai [1:31]
4. Andante [1:17]
5. Allegro [1:45]
NICOLA PORPORA· Concerto III in sol minore
(dalle Sinfonie da camera a tre istromenti)
6. Adagio sostenuto [2:01]
7. Allegro [2:43]
8. Adagio [1:47]
9. Allegro [3:57]
LEONARDO LEO· Toccata III in sol minore
10. Allegro [2:15]
LEONARDO LEO· Salmo CXII Beatus vir per alto, due violini e bc.
11. Aria: "Beatus Vir" • Allegro [3 :32]
12. Recitativo: "Exortum est"• Largo [2:28]
13. Aria: "Jucundus homo" • Vivace [3:44]
14. Aria: "Dispersit"· Spiritoso [2:49]
15. Arioso: "Gloria" • Un poco Andante [0:58]
16. Aria: "Sicut erat" • Allegro [1:42]
NICOLA PORPORA • Concerto VI in si bemolle maggiore
(dalle Sinfonie da camera a tre istromenti)
17. Adagio [3:18]
18. Allegro [4:01]
19. Affettuoso [1 :24]
20. Allegro [1 :52]
21. LEONARDO LEO· Salmo CXV Credidi propterquod locutus sum a 4 voci (*) [10:04)
22. LEONARDO LEO· Toccata II in sol minore [3:36]
T.T. 61'03"
Lucia Schwarz soprano (tr. 21) Michele Andalo controtenore (tr. 11-16, 21) Raffaele Giordani tenore (tr. 21) Matteo Bellotto basso (tr. 21)
ENSEMBLE ANIMANTICA
Svetlana Fomina violino I e concertatore (tr. 1-9, 11-20) Paola Nervi - violino II (tr. 1-9, 11-20) Magdalena Vasilescu viola (tr. 3-5)
Massimo Barrera violoncello (tr. 1-9, 11-20) Marco Farolfi clavicembalo (tr. 1-9)
Giorgio Dellarole fisarmonica (tr.l 0-20, 22) Michele Vannelli clavicembalo (tr. 21)
(*) Registrazione dal vivo
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