GHIRLANDA SACRA
Early 17th-century music in Naples

1 Bonaventura Cerronio (17th century)
Gaudeamus omnes a 2 voci con doi violini

2 Plainchant
Hic Franciscus pauper

3 Francesco Sabino (c.1618-after 1660)
Franciscus servus Christi a 3 voci con sinfonia

4 Anonymous (17th century)
O beate Januari

5 Antonino Sabino (1591-1650)
Beatus Januarius Christi Martyr a 3

6 Plainchant
Beatus Januarius

7 Antonino Sabino
Jubilate coelestes chori a 3 voci con sinfonia

8 Andrea Falconieri (c.1585-1656)
Sinfonia seconda

9 Giovanni Maria Sabino (1588-1649)
O sacrum convivium a voce sola

10 Scipione Stella (c.1558-1622)
Canzon seconda

11 Francesco Sabino
Scitote quoniam Dominus

12 Giovanni Maria Sabino
Crux fidelis a voce sola

13 Scipione Stella
Canzon prima

14 Giovanni Maria Sabino
Repleatur os meum a voce sola

15 Giovanni Maria Sabino
Cantate Domino a 2 voci

16 Plainchant
Sancti angeli custodens

17 Giovanni Maria Sabino
Angelorum esca a 3 voci

18 Giovanni Maria Sabino
Ecce panis angelorum a voce sola

19 Scipione Stella
Diverse partite sull’aria della Romanesca

20 Andrea Falconieri
Quae est ista a 2 voci

21 Anonymous (17th century)
Sinfonia

22 Giovanni Maria (?) Sabino
Jesu Corona coelsior a 4 voci

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About this CD

To talk of the rediscovery of Neapolitan Baroque music is to speak of Antonio Florio and his Cappella della Pietà de’ Turchini (recently renamed simply as I Turchini). In this recording made in 1993, and with a fantastic line-up of vocal soloists – which includes no less than Roberta Invernizzi – Florio moves into the revitalization of the sacred Neapolitan music which took place at the beginnings of the seventeenth century, clearly influenced by Monteverdi at the expense of the more archaic style, rather like in Gesualdo, which had prevailed until then.