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Leo / Andalo / Ensemble Animantica- Maestri a Sant'onofrio

SKU: 8007068520329
¥133.00
the album cover for Leo / Andalo / Ensemble Animantica - Maestri a Sant'onofrio
the album cover for Leo / Andalo / Ensemble Animantica - Maestri a Sant'onofrio

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, it's 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 it's 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:

  1. Trio In D Major: I. Adagio
  2. Trio In D Major: II. Allegro Tempo Comodo
  3. Sinfonia In A Major: I. Allegro Assai
  4. Sinfonia In A Major: II. Andante
  5. Sinfonia In A Major: III. Allegro
  6. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: I. Adagio Sostenuto
  7. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: II. Allegro
  8. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: III. Adagio
  9. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: IV. Allegro
  10. Toccata No. 3 In G Minor
  11. Beatus Vir: I. Allegro
  12. Beatus Vir: II. Exortum Est. Largo
  13. Beatus Vir: III. Jucundus Homo. Vivace
  14. Beatus Vir: IV. Dispersit. Spiritoso
  15. Beatus Vir: V. Gloria. Un Poco Andante
  16. Beatus Vir: VI. Sicut Erat. Allegro
  17. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: I. Adagio
  18. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: II. Allegro
  19. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: III. Affettuoso
  20. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: IV. Allegro
  21. Credidi In B-Flat Major
  22. Toccata No. 2 In G Minor
Format: New CD/Classical

Leo / Andalo / Ensemble Animantica- Maestri a Sant'onofrio

SKU: 8007068520329
¥133.00

Release Date: 05.03.2019

 
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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, it's 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 it's 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:

  1. Trio In D Major: I. Adagio
  2. Trio In D Major: II. Allegro Tempo Comodo
  3. Sinfonia In A Major: I. Allegro Assai
  4. Sinfonia In A Major: II. Andante
  5. Sinfonia In A Major: III. Allegro
  6. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: I. Adagio Sostenuto
  7. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: II. Allegro
  8. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: III. Adagio
  9. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: IV. Allegro
  10. Toccata No. 3 In G Minor
  11. Beatus Vir: I. Allegro
  12. Beatus Vir: II. Exortum Est. Largo
  13. Beatus Vir: III. Jucundus Homo. Vivace
  14. Beatus Vir: IV. Dispersit. Spiritoso
  15. Beatus Vir: V. Gloria. Un Poco Andante
  16. Beatus Vir: VI. Sicut Erat. Allegro
  17. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: I. Adagio
  18. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: II. Allegro
  19. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: III. Affettuoso
  20. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: IV. Allegro
  21. Credidi In B-Flat Major
  22. Toccata No. 2 In G Minor