Tracklist:
Leonardo Leo (1694-1744)
Concerto di violoncello con violini (D minor) – Naples, 1738
01 Andante grazioso
02 Presto con spirito
03 Amoroso
04 Allegro

Nicola Fiorenza (c.1700-1764)
Concerto per violoncello ed archi (Bb major) – Naples, 1728
05 Largo
06 Allegro
07 Largo
08 Allegro

Giovanni Sollima (1962)
09 "Fecit Neap. 17.." per violoncello, archi e continuo – Naples, 2011
dedicated to Antonio Florio

Nicola Fiorenza (c.1700-1764)
Sinfonia a 4 violini e basso continuo (C minor) – Naples, c.1730-40
10 Largo
11 Fuga
12 Largo
13 Allegro

Giuseppe de Majo (1697-1777)
Concerto per violoncello ed archi (F major) – Naples, 1726
14 Comodo
15 Grave
16 Allegro


Personnel:
Giovanni Sollima (violoncello) Francesco Ruggieri, Cremona, 1679
I Turchini / Antonio Florio

Alessandro Ciccolini, first violin (leader)
Patrizio Focardi, Paolo Cantamessa, first violins
Marco Piantoni, Nunzia Sorrentino, Massimo Percivaldi, second violins
Rosario Di Meglio, viola
Alberto Guerrero, Rebecca Ferri, cellos
Giorgio Sanvito, double bass
Patrizia Varone, harpsichord
Chiara Granata, triple harp


Giovanni Sollima has been successfully pursuing a twin career as cellist and as a composer and it is in both capacities that the Palermo-born musician appears now on a new recording from Glossa. Sollima teams up with I Turchini of Antonio Florio in a captivating demonstration of virtuoso concerto treasures from Leonardo Leo, Giuseppe de Majo and Nicola Fiorenza. The quality of their committed music-making is underscored by Dinko Fabris who, in an accompanying essay, provides yet another lucid exposition of a musical climate unknown to many.

Giovanni Sollima’s empathy with the spirit of the 18th century concerto allows him not only to provide – and to play masterfully – elegantly appropriate cadenzas for the works of his forebears but to compose a modern work comfortable and at ease with its Neapolitan past (and entitled "Fecit Neap. 17..", mirroring the frequentlyfound ascription found on manuscripts in the 18th century).

With a solo cellist in Giovanni Sollima, who is equally at home in the musical worlds of Patti Smith, Claudio Abbado and Philip Glass, and a director in Antonio Florio, who is equipped with his own masterful overview of Neapolitan music from the Baroque onwards, this new disc was recorded in a venue, the old Santa Anna dei Lombardi monastery complex in the heart of Naples, which serves to point up how powerful a forging ground for cello music Naples was from the end of the 17th century and into the 18th, as well as in our own time.

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