Composer: Francesco Nicola Fago, Francesco Scipriani
Performer: Riccardo Angelo Strano, Sabino Manzo, Claudio Mastrangelo, Giuseppe Petrella, Davide Milano, Santa Teresa dei Maschi
Conductor: Sabino Manzo
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0437
Release: 2018
Size: 615 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Fago: Che vuoi, mio cor, che vuoi?
Scipriani: 12 Toccatas (excerpts)
02. Toccata No. 10
03. Fago: Doppo mille martiri
Scipriani: 12 Toccatas (excerpts)
04. Toccata No. 5
05. Fago: Ingegni curiosi
Scipriani: 12 Toccatas (excerpts)
06. Toccata No. 1
07. Fago: Non credo che vi sia, Tormento
Scipriani: 12 Toccatas (excerpts)
08. Toccata No. 9
Fago: È ben chiara ragione
09. E’ben chiara ragione
Scipriani: 12 Toccatas (excerpts)
10. Toccata No. 7
11. Fago: Destati omai dal sonno
Nicola Fago (1677–1745) was one of the leading practitioners of the chamber cantata, a kind of mini-opera for voice and ensemble brought to perfection by several generations of composers working in the aristocratic courts in Naples. The six examples by Fago recorded here – for the first time – reveal him to have been a master of the genre: they are dramatic, full of rhythmic excitement and stuffed with catchy tunes. Fago’s contemporaries called him ‘Il Tarantino’, since he was born in Taranto, in the area now known as Puglia, in the heel of Italy; this recording is the second of a series of three Toccata Classics albums dedicated to Fago’s cantatas, and part of a wider exploration of Pugliese composers.