The
Neapolitan Baroque, especially in the first half of
the eighteenth century, was a
vibrant and vital time
for instrumental music, as Josetxu Obregón and La
Ritirata now demonstrate with their new recording
of
six concertos from that
era. The Neapolitan school –
which owed so much in its formation to Francesco
Provenzale – flourished in
the hands of Francesco
Mancini, Nicola Porpora, Nicola
Fiorenza, Giovanni
Battista
Pergolesi and Alessandro Scarlatti, all
represented with concertos on this new Glossa
recording.
The
four major conservatories
in the city created an
astonishingly productive and innovative environment
for musicians – students and their
teachers alike. The
composers here all studied or worked in the
conservatories or at the Cappella Real. The
Neapolitan concerto had its own structure at this
time,
which was quite different to that found in the
Venice of Vivaldi, and there was a constant
competitive
spirit for soloists to demonstrate their
virtuosity.
As they showed with their earlier Glossa recording
of
Il Spiritillo Brando
, the members of La
Ritirata are
more than a match for their Neapolitan predecessors
in both stylishness and technique. The soloists gathered by Josetxu Obregón represent some of the
leading musical lights in Spain today: violinist Hiro
Kurosaki (in a
Fiorenza
concerto), recorder-player
Tamar Lalo (Scarlatti
and
Mancini)
, harpsichordists
Ignacio Prego and Daniel Oyarzabal (Pergolesi) and
not least, Obregón himself who is the cello
soloist in
works by Fiorenza
and
Porpora. (GLOSSA)
excelente musica. muchas geacias
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