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Formats and Editions
1. Trio In D Major: I. Adagio
2. Trio In D Major: II. Allegro Tempo Comodo
3. Sinfonia In A Major: I. Allegro Assai
4. Sinfonia In A Major: II. Andante
5. Sinfonia In A Major: III. Allegro
6. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: I. Adagio Sostenuto
7. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: II. Allegro
8. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: III. Adagio
9. Concerto No. 3 In G Minor: IV. Allegro
10. Toccata No. 3 In G Minor
11. Beatus Vir: I. Allegro
12. Beatus Vir: II. Exortum Est. Largo
13. Beatus Vir: III. Jucundus Homo. Vivace
14. Beatus Vir: IV. Dispersit. Spiritoso
15. Beatus Vir: V. Gloria. Un Poco Andante
16. Beatus Vir: VI. Sicut Erat. Allegro
17. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: I. Adagio
18. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: II. Allegro
19. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: III. Affettuoso
20. Concerto No. 6 In A-Flat Major: IV. Allegro
21. Credidi In B-Flat Major
22. Toccata No. 2 In G Minor
More Info:
The College of Music of Sant'Onofrio, one of the wonders of baroque Naples, was founded in the late 1500s as a foundling institution to train orphans and abandoned children to work as artisans. Within a few years, it's educational policy had shifted to musical training and singing and during the 1600s it was home to the finest composers in the city. They transformed the rigidly austere musical geometry of northern Europe into something wholly new, as though infusing the darkness of the north with the immense, intensely bright light of the south. Nicola Porpora was just such a composer. In 1710 the 24 year-old Porpora presented his opera Berenice in Rome with great success. While in the city, Haendel himself saw it and went to congratulate it's composer. Porpora wrote a great deal of music for religious purposes and opened a singing school which Farinelli also attended. Leonardo Leo is the other great composer from Sant'Onofrio. Almost a decade younger than Porpora, a combination of overwork and delicate health killed Leo at the relatively young age of fifty. He had already produced a number of new operas by 1738 when his reputation for music earned him the commission of a lifetime to write an opera to celebrate the wedding of Charles III and Maria Amalia of Saxony. Leo put everything else to one side and took as his subject the wedding of Psyche and Cupid. Yet despite the success of his opera for the imperial wedding, Leo continued to write music - both sacred and opera, whether serious or comic. Unsurprisingly, his name was a household word throughout Europe.
