Ricchezza: Los Santos Niños

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The oratorio is essentially an extended trial scene set to fluent music of contrapuntal elegance and appositely varying dramatic moods for all four participants…The boys are characterised with... — Gramophone Magazine, June 2018 More…

Release Date: 23rd Mar 2018
Catalogue No: GCD922610
Label: Glossa
Length: 62 minutes

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Excerpt, Veneziano: San Antonio da Padova

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Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

San Antonio da Padova: Sinfonia

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Ricchezza: Los Santos Niños

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Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio
Recorded: March 2017
Recording Venue: Palazzo Positano, Naples, Italy

La fiamma bambina

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All'armi, all'armi

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Non sia chi non adori - Ben vedrà la destra irata

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Non turbarti, o mio sire

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Ma ridotti al posto atroce

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Resta, o mio fido

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Mostri dell'Erebo

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A strage e ruina

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Alla scola d'amor

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Insolenti garzoni - Troppo tenero

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Qual'infamia - Sempre il tronco adorerò

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Dell'etade il fiore invola

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Che pretendi tiranno

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L'intendo e'l soffro

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Dilatarci al sommo bene

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Ignoranti che sete - Ben si accordano insieme

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Che lieto aviso

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Excerpt, Veneziano: Il Tobia sposo

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Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

Il Tobia sposo: Sinfonia

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Ricchezza: Los Santos Niños

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Recorded: March 2017
Recording Venue: Palazzo Positano, Naples, Italy

Fra catene e ritorte

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Tiranno pietoso

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Io non so qual magia - La nativa crudeltà

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Quando, deh quando, oh Dio

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Sete vicini

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Sinfonia I

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Ingannato dagli aspetti - Non può rigido ferro

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Non sai tu, Daciano

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Qual maestro v'insegnò

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Che tanta dolcezza

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Alme di scoglio

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Morì come un infame

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Che si aspetta

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Fra poco osservarete

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Sinfonia II

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Giusto mio - O Pastore

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Udite impertinenza! - Sia trionfo

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O fiamme volanti

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Excerpt, Ricchezza: La gara degli elementi

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Cappella Neapolitana
Antonio Florio

La gara degli elementi: La pietà di goccia ardente

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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.

Very little else is known about Donato Ricchezza (c1650-1722), apart from him bequeathing a quantity of scores to the Oratory of the Girolamini in Naples where he worked. The oratorio relates the story of the defence offered by the “holy children” – the brothers Giusto and Pastore, to be martyred in Spain during the Persecution of Diocletian in 303/4 – against the charge of being Christians, as levelled against them first by a soldier and then by the Roman governor Daciano. Marta Fumagalli (contralto), Federica Pagliuca (soprano), Luca Cervoni (tenor) and Giuseppe Naviglio (bass) vividly occupy these four vocal roles.

Why Ricchezza chose this story in 1683 Naples is discussed by Dinko Fabris in his enlightening booklet essay. Meagre additional knowledge about Ricchezza says that he wrote eight other oratorios and, as a bonus, an aria from La gara degli elementi is included here, as are a pair of sinfonias by Ricchezza’s contemporary (and fellow pupil of Provenzale), Gaetano Veneziano.

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June 2018

The oratorio is essentially an extended trial scene set to fluent music of contrapuntal elegance and appositely varying dramatic moods for all four participants…The boys are characterised with dignity and purity by Marta Fumagalli and Federica Pagliuca...Using single strings with a rich group of plucked continuo, Florio ensures a flowing momentum to the narrative.

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