RESPONDE MIHI
Liturgical music in Baroque Naples

I. OFFICIUM DEFUNCTORUM

1 Gaetano Veneziano (1656-1716)
Lectio IX in tertio nocturno, “Quare de vulva"

2 Gaetano Veneziano
Lectio III in primo nocturno, “Manus tuae"

3 Gaetano Veneziano
Fuga a 2 violini

4 Gaetano Veneziano
Lectio iv in secundo nocturno, “Responde mihi”

II. CORPUS DOMINI

5 Nicola Fago (1677-1745)
Laudate pueri

6 Nicola Fago
Beatus vir

7 Francesco Provenzale? (1624-1704)
Pange lingua

III. NATIVITÀ

8 Francesco Provenzale
Su i palchi delle stelle

9 Gaetano Greco (c.1657-1728)
Pastorale (instr.)

10 Anonymous (end of 17th century)
Pastorale (instr.)

11 Nicola Fago
Quid hic statis pastores

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About this CD

From the early Symphonia-label days of Antonio Florio and his ensemble, now renamed Cappella Neapolitana, we bring back to the market an important recording of early Baroque Neapolitan liturgical music: divided in three sections (Liturgy of the Dead, Corpus Christi and Christmas), Florio presents fine works of Veneziano, Provenzale and contemporaries, all sourced from the period’s active Neapolitan Conservatories and beautifully explained by scholar Dinko Fabris in the included booklet notes. essential repertory.