Durante: Concerti per archi Accademia dell'Annunciata & Riccardo Doni

• Francesco Durante (1684 - 1755): Concerto No. 8 in A Major, "La Pazzia":
• 1 Durante: Concerto No. 8 in A Major, "La Pazzia": I. Allegro - Affettuoso - Allegro - Andante - Allegro - Affettuoso - Allegro - Affettuoso - Andante 09:12
• 2 Durante: Concerto No. 8 in A Major, "La Pazzia": II. Affettuoso 03:16
• 3 Durante: Concerto No. 8 in A Major, "La Pazzia": III. Allegro 03:08
• Concerto No. 4 in E Minor:
• 4 Durante: Concerto No. 4 in E Minor: I. Adagio 03:38
• 5 Durante: Concerto No. 4 in E Minor: II. Ricercar del 4° tono. Allegro 01:51
• 6 Durante: Concerto No. 4 in E Minor: III. Largo 03:14
• 7 Durante: Concerto No. 4 in E Minor: IV. Presto 02:13
• Concerto No. 2 in G Minor:
• 8 Durante: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor: I. Affettuoso 02:39
• 9 Durante: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor: II. Presto 03:56
• 10 Durante: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor: III. Largo affettuoso 03:02
• 11 Durante: Concerto No. 2 in G Minor: IV. Allegro 02:36
• Concerto No. 9 in B-Flat Major:
• 12 Durante: Concerto No. 9 in B-Flat Major: I. Allegro 02:15
• 13 Durante: Concerto No. 9 in B-Flat Major: II. Andante moderato - Allegro 03:15
• 14 Durante: Concerto No. 9 in B-Flat Major: III. Allegro 01:29
• Nicola Fiorenza (1700 - 1764): Sinfonia for 4 Violins and Continuo in C Minor:
• 15 Fiorenza: Sinfonia for 4 Violins and Continuo in C Minor: I. Largo 02:51
• 16 Fiorenza: Sinfonia for 4 Violins and Continuo in C Minor: II. Fuga 02:47
• 17 Fiorenza: Sinfonia for 4 Violins and Continuo in C Minor: III. Largo 01:02
• 18 Fiorenza: Sinfonia for 4 Violins and Continuo in C Minor: IV. Allegro 03:00
• Francesco Durante: Concerto No. 7 in C Major:
• 19 Durante: Concerto No. 7 in C Major: I. Moderato 03:05
• 20 Durante: Concerto No. 7 in C Major: II. Allegro 03:00
• 21 Durante: Concerto No. 7 in C Major: III. Larghetto 01:36
• 22 Durante: Concerto No. 7 in C Major: IV. Presto 00:49
• Concerto No. 5 in A Major:
• 23 Durante: Concerto No. 5 in A Major: I. Presto 02:32
• 24 Durante: Concerto No. 5 in A Major: II. Largo 03:38
• 25 Durante: Concerto No. 5 in A Major: III. Allegro 01:12
• Nicola Porpora: Concerto for Cello, Strings and Continuo in A Minor:
• 26 Porpora: Concerto for Cello, Strings and Continuo in A Minor: I. Largo 04:13
• 27 Porpora: Concerto for Cello, Strings and Continuo in A Minor: II. Allegro 06:22
• 28 Porpora: Concerto for Cello, Strings and Continuo in A Minor: III. Adagio 01:56
• 29 Porpora: Concerto for Cello, Strings and Continuo in A Minor: IV. Allegro 04:42
• Francesco Durante: Concerto No. 6 in A Major:
• 30 Durante: Concerto No. 6 in A Major: I. Allegro 02:16
• 31 Durante: Concerto No. 6 in A Major: II. Amoroso 02:13
• 32 Durante: Concerto No. 6 in A Major: III. Minuet. Allegro - Trio. Allegro 02:49
• 33 Durante: Concerto No. 6 in A Major: IV. Canone a 3 01:34
• Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major:
• 34 Durante: Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major: I. Presto 01:03
• 35 Durante: Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major: II. Largo staccato - Cantabile (Canone sopra canone a 4) - Largo - Cantabile 02:23
• 36 Durante: Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major: III. Allegro 01:35
• 37 Durante: Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major: IV. Minuetto 01:03
• 38 Durante: Concerto No. 3 in E-Flat Major: V. Allegro assai - Finale 02:40
• Concerto No. 1 in F Minor:
• 39 Durante: Concerto No. 1 in F Minor: I. Un poco andante 01:59
• 40 Durante: Concerto No. 1 in F Minor: II. Allegro 01:43
• 41 Durante: Concerto No. 1 in F Minor: III. Andante 03:42
• 42 Durante: Concerto No. 1 in F Minor: IV. Amoroso 02:06
• 43 Durante: Concerto No. 1 in F Minor: V. Allegro 01:46
• Total Runtime 01:57:21

Info for Durante: Concerti per archi

Maestro di cappella in two conservatories in Naples, Francesco Durante was one of the prominent representatives of the eighteenth-century Neapolitan school. A unique case in the history of Neapolitan music, Durante did not write any opera and devoted himself exclusively to pedagogical works and to the composition of sacred and instrumental music. His Concerti per archi are among the most significant contributions to the genre of the orchestral concerto. They represent a summa of the early eighteenth-century Neapolitan style. Durante blends the main aesthetic approaches of the time, from the stricter contrapuntal style – illustrated by fugue, canon, and Recercare movements – to the new galant style – transpiring from the slow cantabile or in movements marked Affettuoso or Amoroso. Besides the eight better-known Concerti included in all manuscript sources, this recording also contains a ninth concerto found in a single, but authoritative source. The Accademia dell’Annunciata has risen to prominence with three successful albums alongside Giuliano Carmignola and Mario Brunello. Now, more than thirty years after the pioneering recording by Concerto Köln, the Milanese ensemble wholly fulfils its promise with a refreshing reading of these orchestral masterpieces from the late Baroque, to be paired with the famous Concerti per archi by Vivaldi.

Accademia dell'Annunciata
Riccardo Doni, musical direction

Riccardo Doni
Born in Milan in 1965, he graduated in Organ and Organ Composition at the Conservatorio Arrigo Boito in Parma under the guidance of Maestro Lorenzo Ghielmi. He later graduated in Organ and Harpsichord and Historical Keyboards in the class of Jean Claude Zehnder at the Schola Cantorum in Basel. In the more than 1,700 concerts performed as organist and harpsichordist, he has played for important concert seasons in Italy and abroad as accompanist and soloist. Since 1994 he has been a permanent collaborator of the prestigious ensemble "Il Giardino Armonico" in Milan, as harpsichordist and organist, with whom he has given concerts in some of the most important halls in the world. He is harpsichordist of the ensemble "Imaginarium," formed in 2002 by violinist Enrico Onofri to perform Italian vocal and instrumental music of the 17th century. Since 2008 he has been playing in a duo with violinist Giuliano Carmignola with whom he has given concerts in some important European halls. From 1984 to 2009 he was artistic director of the Association "Musica Laudantes" in Milan and the vocal group of the same name. From 1990 to 1996 he was director of the choir of the "Nuova Polifonica Ambrosiana" and from the foundation to 1998 of the "Madrigalisti Ambrosiani" with whom he gave concerts in Italy and abroad. He occasionally collaborates with "I cameristi della Scala", "I solisti di Pavia" and other prestigious chamber ensembles. In 2010 he founded the Music Association "Canone Inverso" of which he is artistic director. He has been a lecturer at the conservatories of Ferrara and Castelfranco Veneto. He has recorded for Decca, Teldec, Zig Zag, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Supraphon, Naïve, Opus 111, Nichion.

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