
Olimpia Abbandonata & Other Cantatas
Ensemble Sonar d'affetto
Nicola Brovelli, violoncello
Mauro Pinciaroli, arciliuto
Luigi Accardo, clavicembalo
La Mandria di Chivasso (To) (Italy)
About this album
«I entered this city, impressed with the highest ideas of the perfect state in which I should find practical music. It was at Naples only that I expected to have my ears gratified with every musical luxury and refinement which Italy could afford. [...] And what lover of music could be in the place which had produced the two Scarlattis, Vinci, Leo, Pergolesi, Porpora, Farinelli, Jommelli, Piccini, Traetta, Sacchini, and innumerable others of the first eminence among composers and performers, both vocal and instrumental, without the most sanguine expectation?». With these words, Charles Burney, the author of one of the most famous and ancient “histories of music” of the modern age, in October 1770 noted in his travel diary his expectations – certainly not unfulfilled – when visiting Naples, a Europea
TRACK LISTING
Olimpia Abbandonata | |||||
1. | Aria, Largo | [04’33’’] | |||
2. | Recitativo | [01’05’’] | |||
3. | Aria, Presto | [03’24’’] | |||
Pietosa l'aurora in ciel | |||||
4. | Recitativo | [00’35’’] | |||
5. | Aria | [01’59’’] | |||
6. | Recitativo | [00’46’’] | |||
7. | Aria, Affettuoso | [04’29’’] | |||
Fille, oh Dio, da te lungi | |||||
8. | Recitativo | [00’59’’] | |||
9. | Aria, Adagio e Affettuoso | [05’25’’] | |||
10. | Recitativo | [00’45’’] | |||
11. | Aria, Allegro | [04’01’’] | |||
Nice son'io pur quello | |||||
12. | Recitativo | [01’11’’] | |||
13. | Aria, Larghetto e Affettuoso | [04’54’’] | |||
14. | Recitativo | [01’09’’] | |||
15. | Aria, Allegro | [03’41’’] | |||
Veggo la selva e ’l monte | |||||
16. | Recitativo | [00’42’’] | |||
17. | Aria | [03’14’’] | |||
18. | Recitativo | [00’41’’] | |||
19. | Aria | [01’56’’] | |||
Del bel Tamigi in riva | |||||
20. | Recitativo | [00’21’’] | |||
21. | Aria, Lento | [04’20’’] | |||
22. | Recitativo | [01’27’’] | |||
23. | Aria | [03’01’’] | |||
È pure un gran portento | |||||
24. | Recitativo | [01’27’’] | |||
25. | Aria, Lento | [04’33’’] | |||
26. | Recitativo | [01’01’’] | |||
27. | Aria, Allegro | [04’11’’] | |||
T.T. | [66’03”] |