CRISTOFARO CARESANA (c.1640-1709)

Tenebrae

Lectio III del Giovedì Santo a voce sola con violini
1.1 ALEPH. Ego vir videns
1.2 ALEPH. Me minavit
1.3 Tantum in me vertit
1.4 Vetustam fecit pellem meam
1.5 Aedificavit in gyro meo
1.6 BETH
1.7 In tenebrosis collocavit me
1.8 GHIMEL. Circumaedificavit adversum me
1.9 Sed cum clamavero
1.10 Conclusit vias meas
1.11 Jerusalem convertere

Lectio III del Venerdì Santo a voce sola con violini
2.1 Incipit Oratio Geremiae Prophetae
2.2 Recordare, Domine
2.3 Aquam nostram
2.4 Servi dominati sunt nostri
2.5 Pellis nostra quati clibanus
2.6 Jerusalem convertere

Giuseppe Antonio Avitrano (c.1670-1756)

Sonata VI a 3 violini e bc “La Carafa”
3 Largo
4 Allegro
5 Largo
6 Allegro

Gaetano Veneziano (1665-1716)

Lectio III del Primo Notturno a voce sola con violini
7 Jube Domine benedicere
8 Consurge induere
9 Excutere de pulvere
10 Quia haec dicit Dominus
11 Et numquid mihi est hic

Sinfonia a 7
12 Presto assai
13 Staccato [Adagio]
14 Presto

Lectio I del Primo Notturno del Mercoledì Santo a voce sola con violini
15 Incipit Lamentatio Geremiae Prophetae
16 ALEPH
17 Quomodo sedet sola civitas
18 Plorans ploravit in nocte
19 Qui consoletur eam
20 Omnes amici ejus
21 GHIMEL
22 Migravit Judas
23 Omnes persecutores ejus
24 DALETH. Viae Sion lugent
25 Facti sunt hostes ejus
26 Parvuli ejus
27 Jerusalem convertere

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About this CD

With Tenebrae Antonio Florio continues on his journey of exploration of the Neapolitan Baroque, now appearing on Glossa, with a timely release of Lamentations of Jeremiah from one “known” composer in Cristofaro Caresana, long-valued by Florio (and whose vocal music occupied most of his previous recording in L’Adoriatione de’ Maggi), and another from the succeeding generation at the end of the 17th century in Gaetano Veneziano, a musician taught by Francesco Provenzale. The vocal works on this new recording are scored for a solo singer and this role is taken by a soprano (who comes from Naples herself) in Valentina Varriale, fast becoming a central member of Antonio Florio’s musical organization, (the recently-renamed) I Turchini.

Instrumentalists from I Turchini take the opportunity to demonstrate their mastery of the Neapolitan style in string music – a Sinfonia and a four-part Sonata – by Veneziano and one of his contemporaries, Giuseppe Antonio Avitrano.

As with so many of Antonio Florio and I Turchini’s performing delights over the years, important musicological assistance for Tenebrae has been provided by Dinko Fabris, the author also of a fascinating article for this new recording of music for the Holy Week.