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Antonio Florio, Cappella de' Turchini - Francesco Provenzale: Passione; Vespro (2002)

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Antonio Florio, Cappella de' Turchini - Francesco Provenzale: Passione; Vespro (2002)

Antonio Florio, Cappella de' Turchini - Francesco Provenzale: Passione, Vespro (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 669 Mb | Total time: 69:47+74:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naïve | # OP 20006 | Recorded: 1996, 1998

Starting with the `Passione', this is a meditation on Christ's Passion consisting mainly of a `Dialogo' between the Virgin Mary (soprano Emanuela Galli) and St John (Giuseppe Naviglio, bass), with contributions from a pair of angels and others. The music is vivid and demonstrative, with lovely vocal passages and some wonderful duetting, all very finely sung. The lively accompaniment from period instruments is superb, and it's all directed with spirit and inspiration by Antonio Florio.

Antonio Florio, Cappella de' Turchini - Francesco Provenzale: La Colomba ferita (1997)

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Antonio Florio, Cappella de' Turchini - Francesco Provenzale: La Colomba ferita (1997)

Antonio Florio, Cappella de' Turchini - Francesco Provenzale: La Colomba ferita (1997)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 510 Mb | Total time: 69:23+44:15 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-208/9 | Recorded: 1997

If Naples, under the reforming wing of Caravaggio, experienced a golden age in the pictorial arts in the 17th century, the same holds true for musical composition. Antonio Florio unveils for us today the musical treasures of this dazzing era nourished by the expressive opulence of the predecessors of A. Scarlatti. A roster of remarkable soloists gives life and flesh to one of the scores exemplifying Neapolitan devotion. The casting dazzles through its presence and its incantatory illumination: Gloria Banditelli is Rosalia, thrilling, sensual, passionate. La Colomba follows on the style of Provenzale's operas. It solidifies the social ascension of the musician to the court of the viceroy, since the work was premiered at the Palace in 1670 by the figliuoli of the Conservatory of Santa Maria di Loreto, of which he was choir director. But this bountiful drama fits into the cycle of other sacred projects by Provenzale: one can attribute to him a "life" of Teresa d'Avila, one of San Gennaro, another of Santa Rosa.

Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Leonardo Vinci: La Partenope (2012)

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Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Leonardo Vinci: La Partenope (2012)

Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Leonardo Vinci: La Partenope (2012)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (Dolby AC3, 6 ch) | 3,57+6,60 Gb (DVD5+DVD9) | 168 min
Classical | Dynamic | Sub.: Italiano, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol, Korean

La Partenope is a rich and colourful production, superbly performed here by I Turchini Orchestra and conductor Antonio Florio, world-renowned specialists of Baroque repertoire. In this version comic intermezzi have been added, as was customary in the eighteenth century.

Antonio Florio, Capella della Pieta de' Turchini - Cristofaro Caresana: Per la Nascita del Verbo (1996)

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Antonio Florio, Capella della Pieta de' Turchini - Cristofaro Caresana: Per la Nascita del Verbo (1996)

Antonio Florio, Capella della Pieta de' Turchini - Cristofaro Caresana: Per la Nascita del Verbo (1996)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 303 Mb | Total time: 66:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-152 | Recorded: 1996

In Baroque times in Naples, Christmas was a time of sumptuous festivities and theatrical performances. These pieces for the Nativity by Cristofaro Caresana are perfect illustrations of the vivacity and liveliness of Neapolitan music at that time.

Antonio Florio, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo - Leonardo Vinci: Siroe, Re di Persia (2019)

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Antonio Florio, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo - Leonardo Vinci: Siroe, Re di Persia (2019)

Antonio Florio, Orchestra del Teatro di San Carlo - Leonardo Vinci: Siroe, Re di Persia (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 875 Mb | Total time: 63:32+55:51+39:19 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS7838 | Recorded: 2018

Based on a ponderous libretto by Metastasio (who defined his own work as “stellar”) Leonardo Vinci’s dramma per musica was premiered in Venice in 1726 and was triumphantly acclaimed. Since then, Siroe, Re di Persia was put to music by composers such as Vivaldi, Handel, Hasse, and Galuppi, to mention just a few. The story uses some of the elements of the plot of Partenope, almost as if it were a sequel moved to Persia. Siroe’s plot revolves around a family mystery mingled with passions, traitors en travesti, fatherly affection and filial honesty that echoes Shakespeare’s King Lear. Performed in concert version at Teatro San Carlo of Naples in 2018, this rare opera was chosen to open the theatre’s 281st season. Conductor Antonio Florio , specialist of the Neapolitan Baroque repertoire, revised the score.

Antonio Florio, La Capella de'Turchini - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater & Salve Regina; Porpora: Salve Regina (2006)

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Antonio Florio, La Capella de'Turchini - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater & Salve Regina; Porpora: Salve Regina (2006)

Antonio Florio, La Capella de'Turchini, Maria Grazia Schiavo, Stéphanie d'Oustrac - Pergolesi: Stabat Mater & Salve Regina; Porpora: Salve Regina (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 295 Mb | Total time: 63:24 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Eloquentia | # EL0505 | Recorded: 2005

At the end of a brief but brilliant career - his compositions cover a period of just over six years - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi worte his last two works, the 'Stabat Mater' and the 'Salve Regina' in C minor. Nicola Porpora's 'Salve Regina' for solo voice and instruments, recorded here for the first time, was probably written during the composer's stay in Venice as 'maestro di cappella' of the Ospedale degli Incurabili, from 1726 to 1733, no doubt for one of the young ladies attending the musical establishment.

Antonio Florio, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pieta de’ Turchinie - George Frideric Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (2011)

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Antonio Florio, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pieta de’ Turchinie - George Frideric Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (2011)

Antonio Florio, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà de’ Turchinie - George Frideric Handel: Aci, Galatea e Polifemo (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 505 Mb | Total time: 51:39+41:26 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Dynamic | # CDS 645/1-2 | Recorded: 2009

Based on the well-know mythological story narrated by Ovid in the Metamorphoses, this is a classical tale of jealousy and love. The giant Polyphemus tries to force his attention on the fair sea-nymph Galatatea, who is in love with shepard Aci. When mad jealousy drives Polyphemus to kill his rival, Galatea, asks her father Nereus to turn Aci’s bood into a river so that, flowing into the sea, he will join her forevermore. It appears this serenade was composed for a marriage in the Neapolitan nobility to celebrate this wedding, Handel wrote this serenade for his new patrons. This is undoubtedly one of Handel’s masterpieces.

Valentina Varriale, I Turchini, Antonio Florio - Caresana, Veneziano: Tenebrae (2011)

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Valentina Varriale, I Turchini, Antonio Florio - Caresana, Veneziano: Tenebrae (2011)

Valentina Varriale, I Turchini, Antonio Florio - Caresana, Veneziano: Tenebrae (2011)
EAC | FLAC (image+.cue, log) | Covers + Digital Booklet | 64:11 | 315 MB
Genre: Classical, Vocal | Label: Glossa | Catalog: GCD 922602

The Spanish label Glossa seems to be releasing a fair amount of sacred music, especially from the Neapolitan realms of the 17th and 18th centuries, such as the rerelease of the Alessandro Scarlatti Lamentations reviewed elsewhere, though to be fair they are also a conduit, as in this recording, for other European firms as well. This selection of late 17th-century Lessons from Holy Week, along with a few instrumental works for filler, fits nicely within Glossa’s repertoire, which includes Johann Sebastian Bach and Pierre Bouteiller, in addition to a rather quirky offering titled Monteverdi Meets Jazz .

Ian Bostridge, Antonio Florio, Cappella Neapolitana - Tormento d'amore (2022)

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Ian Bostridge, Antonio Florio, Cappella Neapolitana - Tormento d'amore (2022)

Ian Bostridge, Antonio Florio, Cappella Neapolitana - Tormento d'amore (2022)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 329 Mb | Total time: 68:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Warner Classics | # 0190295037079 | Recorded: 2020

With the 10 arias on Tormento d'amore, Ian Bostridge demonstrates the important place that the tenor voice held in Italian opera from the mid-17th to the mid-18th century - often thought of as the era of the castrato. At this time, there were two main centres of opera in Italy: Venice, where such composers as Cavalli, Vivaldi, Cesti, Stradella, Sartorio and Legrenzi were active, and Naples, home to Provenzale, Caresana, Vinci and Fago. In addition to arias - two of them in world premiere recordings - the album offers five instrumental sinfonie and a traditional Neapolitan song, 'Lu cardillo', or 'The Goldfinch', a songbird closely associated with Naples. Bostridge is partnered by conductor Antonio Florio and his ensemble Cappella Neapolitana.

Pino De Vittorio, Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Il Canto della Sirena: Cantate napoletane dell’età barocca (2011)

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Pino De Vittorio, Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Il Canto della Sirena: Cantate napoletane dell’età barocca (2011)

Pino De Vittorio, Antonio Florio, I Turchini - Il Canto della Sirena: Cantate napoletane dell’età barocca (2011)
XLD | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 0.97 Gb | Total time: 73:59+74:56+62:48 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 922603. 3 | Recorded: 1991, 1994, 1996

During the early 1990s Antonio Florio (together with Dinko Fabris) was making substantial discoveries in the field of Baroque repertory from Naples for performance and recording, and now that Florio and I Turchini are making new recordings for Glossa (Caresana’s Tenebrae and L’Adoratione de’ Maggi), we are delighted to be bringing back into circulation some of those earlier ground-breaking recordings, signed by Roberto Meo and Sigrid Lee, focusing here – with Il Canto della Sirena – on Neapolitan chamber cantatas from the 17th and early 18th centuries.

Antonio Florio, Cappella de' Turchini - Vinci: Li Zite 'ngalera (1999)

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Antonio Florio, Cappella de' Turchini - Vinci: Li Zite 'ngalera (1999)

Antonio Florio, Cappella de' Turchini - Vinci: Li Zite 'ngalera (1999)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 764 Mb | Total time: 54:34+77:39 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OPS 30-212/213 | Recorded: 1999

Ce Vinci-là est un maître de l'opera buffa napolitain et, pour le Carnaval de 1722, excelle à emmener ces «Fiancés en galère» sur les flots de la pétulance dialectale et macaronique la plus débridée. Musique de lumière et de bonne humeur, nouvelle réussite de la série «Tesori di Napoli» que mène Antonio Florio, avec la verve irrésistible de toute son équipe chantante et violinante.

Antonio Florio, Cappella Neapolitana - Donato Ricchezza: Los Santos Niños (2018)

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Antonio Florio, Cappella Neapolitana - Donato Ricchezza: Los Santos Niños (2018)

Antonio Florio, Cappella Neapolitana - Donato Ricchezza: Los Santos Niños (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 312 Mb | Total time: 62:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 922610 | Recorded: 2017

The indefatigable Antonio Florio, along with his associates from Cappella Neapolitana, has succeeded, with a work by Donato Ricchezza, in unearthing another major rediscovery from the Neapolitan Baroque. The labours of Florio – coupled with the ability to turn dry notes on a dusty manuscript into a sumptuous audio feast – can be no better demonstrated than with this release on Glossa of Los Santos Niños: “Oratorio di San Giusto e San Pastore”, written by a composer who was a pupil of the great Francesco Provenzale.

Antonio Florio, Capella de' Turchini - Giovanni Paisiello: Pulcinella vendicato (2002)

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Antonio Florio, Capella de' Turchini - Giovanni Paisiello: Pulcinella vendicato (2002)

Antonio Florio, Capella de' Turchini - Giovanni Paisiello: Pulcinella vendicato (2002)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 394 Mb | Total time: 78:45 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opus 111 | # OP 30205 | Recorded: 2001

Très jeune, Giovanni Paisiello connut un grand succès, aussi bien en Italie qu'à l'étranger. Il est surtout réputé pour son Barbier de Séville (1782) d'après Beaumarchais, déjà, qui influença bien évidemment Rossini et aussi Mozart pour ses Noces de Figaro. Ludwig van Beethoven lui-même utilisera une aria La Molinara "Nel cor piu non mi sento" pour composer une de ses oeuvres. Un autre opéra, créé en 1789, connut un renouveau récent grâce à la superbe interprétation du rôle-titre par Cecilia Bartoli : Nina, ossia la Pazza per Amore.

Antonio Florio, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini - Leonardo Leo: L'Alidoro (2009)

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Antonio Florio, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini - Leonardo Leo: L'Alidoro (2009)

Antonio Florio, Orchestra Barocca Cappella della Pietà de' Turchini - Leonardo Leo: L'Alidoro (2009)
NTSC 16:9 (720x480) | Italiano | LinearPCM, 2 ch | Dolby AC3, 6 ch | 3.76 + 6.53 Gb (DVD5+DVD9) | 165 min
Classical | Dynamic | Sub.: Italiano, English, Francais, Deutsch, Espanol

WORLD PREMIERE in modern times of an unknown comic opera which was recently rediscovered along with other three other Leo operas at the Abbey of Montecassino. L Alidoro (Golden Wings) is a lost-and-found story which explores the themes of love and jealousy from different perspectives in particular age and social status interweaving comedy with more serious reflections. Director Arturo Cirillo explains how in this opera, nothing is happening except a subtle and gorgeous relational game among the seven protagonists.

Antonio Florio, Capella de' Turchini - Niccolò Jommelli: Don Trastullo (2001)

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Antonio Florio, Capella de' Turchini - Niccolò Jommelli: Don Trastullo (2001)

Antonio Florio, Capella de' Turchini - Niccolò Jommelli: Don Trastullo (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 280 Mb | Total time: 59:47 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Opuss 111 | OP 30280 | Recorded: 2000

Even in these circumspect times‚ the ambitious ‘Tesori di Napoli’ series continues unearthing works whose merit is one thing‚ but whose significance for future generations is a fascinating sideshow. Niccolò Jommelli‚ if not exactly a household name‚ was an established Neopolitan mid18th century ‘master’ whose reputation was founded on operatic successes in several major centres – enough to secure him a fine eulogy from Dr Burney in 1770. For the uninitiated (and knowing only the odd cantata and vespers settings‚ I count myself such)‚ the fluid tonal progression of the recitatives in Jommelli’s comic ‘intermezzo’‚ Don Trastullo‚ has da PonteMozart resonating with illuminating prescience.