Castrapolis: Neapolitan Cantatas and Arias Nicolò Balducci, Dolci Affetti, Dan Laurin, Anna Paradiso

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Album-Release:
2022

HRA-Release:
07.10.2022

Label: BIS

Genre: Classical

Subgenre: Vocal

Artist: Nicolò Balducci, Dolci Affetti, Dan Laurin, Anna Paradiso

Composer: Domenico Auletta (1723-1753), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), Giuseppe Porsile (1680-1750), Domenico Natale Sarro (1679-1744), Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725)

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  • Johann Adolph Hasse (1699 - 1783): Ciro riconosciuto:
  • 1 Hasse: Ciro riconosciuto: Non piangete, amati rai 07:45
  • Giuseppe Porsile (1680 - 1750): Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria (Excerpts):
  • 2 Porsile: Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria (Excerpts): Sventurato chi piagato 01:44
  • 3 Porsile: Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria (Excerpts): Tu sei crudel così 02:51
  • 4 Porsile: Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria (Excerpts): Apri Cirene i lumi 05:36
  • 5 Porsile: Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria (Excerpts): Fiero sdegno dell'alma guerriero 02:42
  • 6 Porsile: Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria (Excerpts): Quel volto vezzoso 03:15
  • 7 Porsile: Il ritorno di Ulisse alla patria (Excerpts): Mi preparo a trionfar 02:54
  • Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725): Quella pace gradita, H. 610:
  • 8 Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita, H. 610: I. Sinfonia 03:58
  • 9 Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita, H. 610: II. Quella pace gradita 01:08
  • 10 Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita, H. 610: III. Crudel tiranno amore 04:52
  • 11 Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita, H. 610: IV. O voi selve beate 00:42
  • 12 Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita, H. 610: V. Care selve, soggiorni di quiete 02:23
  • 13 Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita, H. 610: VI. Lungi da me, tiranno amore 01:09
  • 14 Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita, H. 610: VII. Teco, o mesta tortorella 04:13
  • Domenico Auletta (1723 - 1753): Concerto in C Major:
  • 15 Auletta: Concerto in C Major: I. Allegro 06:29
  • 16 Auletta: Concerto in C Major: II. Larghetto 07:33
  • 17 Auletta: Concerto in C Major: III. Allegro 04:10
  • Dimmi bel neo che fai:
  • 18 Dimmi bel neo che fai: 00:40
  • Domenico Natale Sarro (1679 - 1744): Dimmi bel neo che fai:
  • 19 Sarro: Dimmi bel neo che fai: I. Dimmi bel neo che fai 00:57
  • 20 Sarro: Dimmi bel neo che fai: II. Così amor mi dasse in sorte 02:58
  • 21 Sarro: Dimmi bel neo che fai: III. No m'inganna il pensiero 01:03
  • 22 Sarro: Dimmi bel neo che fai: IV. Che vaneggia quest 04:11
  • 23 Sarro: Dimmi bel neo che fai: V. Si neo chiamarti deggio 00:29
  • 24 Sarro: Dimmi bel neo che fai: VI. Si tu puoi darli ò cara 02:09
  • Traditional: Tarantella del Gargano (Arr. for Voice & Baroque Guitar):
  • 25 Traditional: Tarantella del Gargano (Arr. for Voice & Baroque Guitar) 04:30
  • Total Runtime 01:20:21

Info for Castrapolis: Neapolitan Cantatas and Arias



During the 17th and 18th centuries, Naples’ fame as a musical centre attracted travellers, composers, instrumentalists and virtuoso singers alike. Among the aspiring musicians, the most highly-trained and sought-after were the castrati, promising boys aged between 8 and 12 who were subjected to an operation intended to preserve the exceptionally pure timbre of their treble voice. Forever virginal beings whose superhuman voices mesmerized their listeners they were nicknamed angiolilli, ‘little angels’, and sang in the most important churches and theatres of ‘Castrapolis’, a term coined to describe the southern capital and its high concentration of castrato sopranos.

Nicolò Balducci is one of the rapidly rising countertenors and sopranists of his generation. Together with the ensemble Dolci Affetti, directed by the renowned recorder player Dan Laurin, he here performs arias and cantatas by Hasse, Porsile, Sarro and Alessandro Scarlatti. All four composers were associated with Naples and knew how to highlight these extraordinary voices, at a time when opera and the chamber cantata represented the most fashionable musical genres both in Italy and abroad. The program is completed with a concerto for harpsichord by Domenico Auletta, with Anna Paradiso performing the solo part.

Nicolò Balducci, counter-tenor
Anna Paradiso, harpsichord
Dohyo Sol, lute
Dolci Affetti, soprano
Dan Laurin, conductor

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