Nola: Tristes erant Apostoli - Sacred Works

Cappella Neapolitana, Florio, Antonio

CDS 7853

World première recording. • Sacred music celebrating Easter week. • Recorded at the 2019 Misteria Paschalia Festival in Kraków. • Conductor Antonio Florio and Cappella Neapolitana are world renowned specialists in this repertoire. • Latin texts included in the booklet. • Among the musicians of 17th-century Naples who have been rediscovered and re-evaluated during the last decades – mainly thanks to Antonio Florio’s performances – Antonio Nola is one of the least known, even though the few works of his that have been studied definitely place him among the leading protagonists of the Neapolitan school of the day. The little biographical information that we have about this enigmatic figure informs us that he was born in Naples in 1642 and entered the Pietà dei Turchini Conservatory at the age of ten. He later worked as an organist in the city’s Cathedral and composed sacred music for the local music schools. He went on to become a priest. • The programme for this world première recording consists of six unpublished works by Domenico Antonio Nola, five motets, a dialogue, and the sequence Stabat Mater, the manuscripts of which are all located in the Archive of the Girolamini Oratory in Naples. Additionally, there is a work for instrumental ensemble by Pietro Marchitelli, a Sonata a tre composed in Naples in Nola’s time. • This monographic programme was prepared by Antonio Florio for Cracow’s 2019 Misteria Paschalia Festival, of which he is the artistic director, to celebrate Easter week. The Neapolitan conductor leads the ensemble Cappella Neapolitana and a group of solo singers who are all specialists in this repertoire.

CD x 1

Dynamic

2.03.2020

8007144078539