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Il Tesoro di San Gennaro

Sacred Music in early 18th century Naples

Valentina Varriale, Leslie Visco (sopranos), Filippo Mineccia (countertenor), Rosario Totaro, Pino De Vittorio (tenors) & Giuseppe Naviglio (bass)

I Turchini, Antonio Florio

With playing as light and bubbly as a glass of prosecco, the quasi-ebullience of Domenico Scarlatti's motet and Sinfonias are threaded through a Baroque salutation to Naples' favourite Saint. — BBC Music Magazine, April 2013, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 14th Jan 2013
Catalogue No: GCD922605
Label: Glossa
Length: 63 minutes

Scarlatti, D: Sinfonia a 5 in C Major

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Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

I. Presto

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II. Adagio e staccato

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III. Allegro assai

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Caresana: Canzona a 4

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Valentina Varriale, Filippo Mineccia, Rosario Totaro, Pino De Vittorio, Turchini, I and Antonio Florio, Valentina Varriale, Filippo Mineccia, Rosario Totaro, Pino De Vittorio
Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

Francesco Nicola Fago: Confetibor

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Valentina Varriale, Filippo Mineccia, Giuseppe Naviglio, Turchini, I and Antonio Florio, Valentina Varriale, Filippo Mineccia, Giuseppe Naviglio
Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

Francesco Nicola Fago: Stabat mater dolorosa

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Valentina Varriale, Filippo Mineccia, Rosario Totaro, Giuseppe Naviglio, Turchini, I and Antonio Florio, Valentina Varriale, Filippo Mineccia, Rosario Totaro, Giuseppe Naviglio
Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

Francesco Nicola Fago: Stabat Mater

Work length10:00

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Valentina Varriale, Filippo Mineccia, Rosario Totaro, Giuseppe Naviglio, Turchini, I and Antonio Florio, Valentina Varriale, Filippo Mineccia, Rosario Totaro, Giuseppe Naviglio
Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

Pro peccatis suae gentis

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Virgo virginum praeclara

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Quando corpus morietur

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Scarlatti, D: Sinfonia a 4 in D Major

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Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

I. Grave

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II. Presto

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III. Adagio

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IV. Allegro assai

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Scarlatti, D: Antra, valles, divo plaudeant

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Valentina Varriale, Leslie Visco, Filippo Mineccia, Rosario Totaro, Giuseppe Naviglio, Turchini, I and Antonio Florio, Valentina Varriale, Leslie Visco, Filippo Mineccia, Rosario Totaro, Giuseppe Naviglio
Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

Antra, valles, divo plaudeant

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Cultor nemorum Joannes

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Istae praecursor magnus

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Supernae vos mentes

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Prepotens martir et Lydus luminus

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Scarlatti, D: Antra, valles, divo plaudeant

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Valentina Varriale, Leslie Visco, Filippo Mineccia, Rosario Totaro, Giuseppe Naviglio, Turchini, I and Antonio Florio, Valentina Varriale, Leslie Visco, Filippo Mineccia, Rosario Totaro, Giuseppe Naviglio
Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

Veneziano: Iam sol recedit

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Pino De Vittorio, Turchini, I and Antonio Florio, Pino De Vittorio
Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

Veneziano: Iste confessor

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Valentina Varriale, Filippo Mineccia, Turchini, I and Antonio Florio, Valentina Varriale, Filippo Mineccia
Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

Scarlatti, D: Sinfonia a 4 in G Major

Work length2:26

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Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

I. Allegro assai

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II. Grave

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III. Allegro assai

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Veneziano: Ave Maris Stella

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Pino De Vittorio, Turchini, I and Antonio Florio, Pino De Vittorio
Turchini, I
Antonio Florio

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Antonio Florio’s deep understanding of the Baroque musical terrain of Naples now takes him to the dawn of the 18th century when the fervour and visceral excitement held by Neapolitans for their chief patron saint San Gennaro was at its height, in an era when the city had been ravaged by plague and was living in constant fear of eruptions from nearby Mount Vesuvius. Great devotion was directed at San Gennaro, in the belief that he would ward off further evils: a richly-adorned chapel in Naples’s cathedral was dedicated to him and provided with its own musical ensemble, and a stream of composers (often pupils of the great Francesco Provenzale) such as Cristofaro Caresana, Nicola Fago and Gaetano Veneziano worked there. Central to the programme of I Turchini, prepared by Florio and Dinko Fabris, are performances of Fago’s four-part Stabat Mater and Caresana’s canzona Sirene festose. There is a rare outing also for a motet, Antra valles Divo plaudant, written by the young Domenico Scarlatti – three of whose string sinfonias are also included here – when he was one of the organists in the Real Cappella; musicians in Naples regularly moved in and out of different ensembles, then as now. A booklet essay by Fabris himself splendidly underpins the popular traditions and musical and religious colour surrounding San Gennaro in a Naples still alive today; moreover, an evocation brought to potent life by the performances of Florio, with his singers and instrumentalists of I Turchini.

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April 2013

With playing as light and bubbly as a glass of prosecco, the quasi-ebullience of Domenico Scarlatti's motet and Sinfonias are threaded through a Baroque salutation to Naples' favourite Saint.

May 2013

Directed with verve and stylistic understanding by Antonio Florio, singers and players enliven all the music on this disc.

17th April 2013

The instrumental performances are excellent...but I really believe that this disc could have been much better if the selection of voices had been more critical. Even so, there is much to enjoy here, and the music is such that everyone interested in this kind of repertoire should definitely investigate it.

12th January 2013

Accompanied by a small ensemble of strings, I Turchini weave wonderfully ornamented interplay of sopranos and countertenor over bass and tenors

Early Music Today

The instrumental playing makes greater appeal than the vocal contributions which sound rough-edged and not always well balanced in ensemble. Thus it is that the three beautifully crafted Domenico Scarlatti sinfonias that fare best, though the concluding section of Nicola Fago’s ‘Stabat Mater’ is affecting.

Classical Music March 2013

beautifully crafted Domenico Scarlatti sinfonias

Il Tesoro di San Gennaro

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