Federica Napoletani, Cristina Corrieri, Ensemble Imaginaire - Leo, Pergolesi, Porpora: Salve Regina (2020)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 266 Mb | Total time: 61:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 96092 | Recorded: 2018
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 266 Mb | Total time: 61:22 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Brilliant Classics | # 96092 | Recorded: 2018
The four Salve Regina recordings presented on this uniquely compiled new album cross the boundary between opera house and church a boundary that in 18th-century Naples was never very forbidding to begin with. In fact, Leo, Pergolesi and Porpora are all fine examples of composers who moved with unselfconscious facility between sacred and secular genres, between old counterpoint and the Monteverdian stile concertato that caressed each word with sensuous melismas and velvet harmonies. Porpora was a noted singing teacher of his day, intimately familiar with everything that a voice can do, and possessing a melodic skill that spins long and ornate vocal phrases of almost instrumental effect.