Jueves 2023

Continuing her exploration of the cello repertoire, on Napoli!, Ophélie Gaillard takes listeners on a tour of baroque Naples. We meet emblematic figures such as virtuosos Fiorenza, Lanzetti and Francischello, the composers Durante and Leo, the Spanish Ortiz and the Madrid-born Corselli, and even, in the course of a sonata or a dance, Scaramouche, Harlequin and their comrades from the commedia dell'arte. The Neapolitan soul is revealed in all this richness: hybrid, sensual, contrasting, both theatrical and profoundly authentic. Alongside the Pulcinella Orchestra as well as Sandrine Piau, Marina Viotti and Luan Góes, Ophélie Gaillard's cello draws on it's many sources, from popular to lyrical, secular to sacred. Unpublished works by Porpora, Bonno and Barbella confirm that Naples has not finished giving up it's secrets.

Continuing her exploration of the cello repertoire, on Napoli!, Ophélie Gaillard takes listeners on a tour of baroque Naples. We meet emblematic figures such as virtuosos Fiorenza, Lanzetti and Francischello, the composers Durante and Leo, the Spanish Ortiz and the Madrid-born Corselli, and even, in the course of a sonata or a dance, Scaramouche, Harlequin and their comrades from the commedia dell'arte. The Neapolitan soul is revealed in all this richness: hybrid, sensual, contrasting, both theatrical and profoundly authentic. Alongside the Pulcinella Orchestra as well as Sandrine Piau, Marina Viotti and Luan Góes, Ophélie Gaillard's cello draws on it's many sources, from popular to lyrical, secular to sacred. Unpublished works by Porpora, Bonno and Barbella confirm that Naples has not finished giving up it's secrets.

The conductor, Founder and artistic and musical director of La Madrileña period instrument orchestra, José Antonio Montaño, makes his debut at the prestigious Sony Classical company with an exquisite work of historicist recovery product of years of work, which comes to life in a careful recording around to the figure of the composer Francesco Corselli, Master of the Royal Chapel of Madrid for forty years.

The conductor, Founder and artistic and musical director of La Madrileña period instrument orchestra, José Antonio Montaño, makes his debut at the prestigious Sony Classical company with an exquisite work of historicist recovery product of years of work, which comes to life in a careful recording around to the figure of the composer Francesco Corselli, Master of the Royal Chapel of Madrid for forty years.This record release includes five world first recordings for Alto solo and orchestra, performed by one of the most outstanding international figures on the historicist scene, countertenor Carlos Mena, and two other world first recordings by composers Giovanni Battista Sammartini and Mauro D. ‘Alay.