Porpora: Cello Concertos & Sonatas

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Release Date: 18th May 2018
Catalogue No: 95279
Label: Brilliant Classics
Length: 78 minutes

Porpora: Sinfonia in C major for cello, violins and basso continuo

Work length10:41

$4.00

$5.20

Renato Criscuolo (cello)
Musica Perduta

I. Amoroso

Track length1:56

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$1.30

II. Allegro

Track length1:52

$1.00

$1.30

III. Largo

Track length1:41

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro

Track length5:12

$1.00

$1.30

Porpora: Cello Sonata in C Minor

Work length6:39

$4.00

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Renato Criscuolo (cello)
Musica Perduta

I. Largo

Track length1:47

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II. Allegro ma non presto

Track length1:49

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III. Piano con gusto cantabile

Track length0:56

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IV. Allegro ma non presto

Track length2:07

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Porpora: Cello Sonata del Signor Nicolò Porpora in G Major

Work length8:24

$4.00

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Renato Criscuolo (cello)
Musica Perduta

I. Amoroso

Track length1:42

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II. Allegro

Track length2:38

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$1.30

III. Largo

Track length1:41

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$1.30

IV. A tempo giusto

Track length2:23

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Porpora: Cello Sonata del Signor Nicolò Porpora in A Major

Work length4:46

$3.00

$3.90

Renato Criscuolo (cello)
Musica Perduta

I. Adagio

Track length1:29

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$1.30

II. Allegro

Track length1:18

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$1.30

III. Giga

Track length1:59

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$1.30

Porpora: Cello Concerto in A Minor

Work length10:19

$4.00

$5.20

Renato Criscuolo (cello)
Musica Perduta

I. Largo

Track length2:23

$1.00

$1.30

II. Allegro

Track length3:20

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$1.30

III. Adagio

Track length1:14

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro

Track length3:22

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Porpora: Cello Sonata in A Major

Work length5:14

$4.00

$5.20

Renato Criscuolo (cello)

I. Largo

Track length1:18

$1.00

$1.30

II. Allegro

Track length2:01

$1.00

$1.30

III. Piano

Track length0:53

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IV. Allegro

Track length1:02

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$1.30

Porpora: Cello Sonata del Signor Nicolò Porpora in A-Flat Major

Work length7:58

$4.00

$5.20

Renato Criscuolo (cello)
Musica Perduta

I. Adagio

Track length1:55

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$1.30

II. Allegro

Track length3:15

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$1.30

III. Largo

Track length0:54

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$1.30

IV. Allegro

Track length1:54

$1.00

$1.30

Porpora: Cello Sonata in F Major

Work length7:14

$4.00

$5.20

Renato Criscuolo (cello)
Musica Perduta

I. Larghetto

Track length1:10

$1.00

$1.30

II. Allegro

Track length1:50

$1.00

$1.30

III. Adagio

Track length1:11

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro non presto

Track length3:03

$1.00

$1.30

Porpora: Cello Concerto in G major

Work length17:24

$4.00

$5.20

Renato Criscuolo (cello)
Musica Perduta

I. Adagio

Track length4:37

$1.00

$1.30

II. Allegro

Track length4:29

$1.00

$1.30

III. Adagio

Track length3:43

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Allegro

Track length4:35

$1.00

$1.30

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Nicola Porpora is an ideal subject for the ensemble Musica Perduta, who undertake musicological research in order to bring to light unpublished or unknown musical works by distinguished authors and composers, often performing their premieres in modern times and creating first-ever recordings using original period instruments or faithful copies thereof.

This CD set gathers all of Porpora’s manuscript works for solo cello and continuo, including some pieces currently or formerly attributed to the Neapolitan composer based on musicological evidence. Given the popularity of the solo cello among composers of the Neapolitan school and Porpora’s own mastery of the instrument, the existence of a substantial body of work in this genre is not surprising. The new attributions to Porpora have come from recent research conducted at the New York Public Library. One manuscript in the Harrach Collection has revealed the Sonata à violoncello solo & basso del Sig.r Nicolò Porpora in A, which appears alongside two works matching known Porpora compositions from the set of Six sonatas published by Walsh in London. Another manuscript groups two anonymous sonatas (in A major and C minor) with a third matching Porpora’s known F major Sonata, published by Schott in an edition by Piatti. These three new attributions to Porpora have never before been recorded.

Though the Concerto in A minor – part of the Bologna State Archive’s Malvezzi Campeggi collection – has recently been attributed to Porpora’s contemporary Nicola Fiorenza, it is included here because Porpora’s name does appear on the score and because it has been argued that Porpora wrote the work while in Venice teaching at the Ospedale degli Incurabili.

Porpora’s continual quest for new colours spurred solo cellist and Musica Perduta’s musical director Renato Criscuolo to assign a range of different continuo forces to the sonatas: cello and harpsichord (Sonatas in F and A), double bass and harpsichord (Sonata in C minor), and a particularly Neapolitan long-necked lute, the colascione, with archlute (other Sonata in A).

Porpora: Cello Concertos & Sonatas

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