IL CANTO DELLA SIRENA
Cantate napoletane dell’età barocca

CD I

Anonymous (17th century)
01 Tarantella del Gargano

Giuseppe Tricarico (1623-1697)
02 Sdegno, campion audace

Francesco Provenzale (1624-1704)
03 Squarciato appena havea

Nicola Sabino (c.1675-1705)
04 Non cchiù Ciccillo mio

Anonymous (17th century)
05 Lamento di Marinetta, moglie di Masaniello

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)
06 Ammore, brutto figlio de pottana

Giulio Cesare Rubino (17th century)
07 Oh cielo oh ammore

Nicola Fago (1677-1745)
08 Toccata per cembalo: Largo - Allegro - Largo - Allegro

Michelangelo Faggioli (1666-1733)
09 Stò paglietta presentuoso

CD II

Francesco Manelli (1595-before 1667)
01 La Luciata a 3

Francesco Provenzale
Care selve, amati orrori
02 Sinfonia (Allegro)
03 Aria (Lento): Care selve
04 Recitativo: In voi, dolente
05 Aria: Care selve
06 Recitativo: Ecco l’alto cipresso
07 Aria (Adagio): Vorrei lasciar, oh Dio!

Francesco Provenzale
08 Compatitemi amanti 1:38

Gaetano Greco (c.1657-1728)
Toccata e fuga per cembalo
09 Toccata
10 Fuga

Anonymous (17th century)
Micco con Calascione é Cuosmo con Violini (Prologo)
11 Sinfonia
12 Bello tiempo passato
13 Pe’ da’ gusto à vuie Signure

Francesco Provenzale
14 La mia speme è vanità
15 Come io viva Dio lo sà

Gaetano Greco
16 Partite sull’Aria di Mantova

Francesco Provenzale
17 All’impero d’Amore

Filippo Coppola (1628-1680)
18 Sinfonia a 4

Francesco Provenzale
19 Gionto il fatal dì
20 Sdegnosetta e che vuoi tu?

Giovanni Cesare Netti (1649-1686)
21 Sinfonia a 4: Adagio - Presto - Adagio - Allegro

Francesco Provenzale
22 Voi ombre notturne (Dialogo de Tirsi e Clori)

CD III

Anonymous (17th century)
01 Tarantella

Michelangelo Faggioli
Marte Ammore guerra e pace
02 Marte, Ammore
03 Derrupane trommiente Cielo

Francesco Provenzale
04 Me senta ’na cosa
05 Mo vedimmo

Simone Coya (fl. 1679)
L’Amante Impazzito
06 Che volete de me?
07 Volete una sonata?
08 Ma che son forse Orfeo
09 Tò, tò vien qui barone

Pietro Marchitelli (1643-1729)
Sonata a 3
10 Vivace - Presto
11 Canzona
12 Adagio
13 Allegro

Leonardo Vinci (c.1696-1730)
14 Vide vi’ lo giesommino

Francesco Durante (1684-1755)
Concerto per cembalo e archi
15 Allegro
16 Grave
17 Allegro

FrancescoProvenzale
18 Serva antica

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About this CD

During the early 1990s Antonio Florio (together with Dinko Fabris) was making substantial discoveries in the field of Baroque repertory from Naples for performance and recording, and now that Florio and I Turchini are making new recordings for Glossa (Caresana’s Tenebrae and L’Adoratione de’ Maggi), we are delighted to be bringing back into circulation some of those earlier ground-breaking recordings, signed by Roberto Meo and Sigrid Lee, focusing here – with Il Canto della Sirena – on Neapolitan chamber cantatas from the 17th and early 18th centuries. The scene is set by Dinko Fabris in a characterful essay for three discs of chamber cantatas – often mini operas in their own right – originally designed to reproduce the theatrical experience away from the opera house; rich in local colour through the use of the Neapolitan language and characters (comic or otherwise), popular melodies and distinctive forms such as the follia.

A prominent role is taken in this music by one special artist: that master of Neapolitan vocal delivery, tenor Pino De Vittorio. At home in the theatre and traditional music as much as he has been in the Baroque repertory, De Vittorio is joined by other familiar names in Florio’s music-making such as Roberta Invernizzi, Roberta Andalò and Rosario Totaro. Across the “songs of love and madness” on these three discs the strong presence is felt of that leading Neapolitan composer Francesco Provenzale, whose reputation Antonio Florio has done so much to revive. Also through these chamber works – cantatas, serenades and instrumental music – there are to be found other important names from the Neapolitan Baroque: Alessandro Scarlatti, Filippo Coppola, Michelangelo Faggioli and Simone Coya.