New appointment of Sicut Sagittae with the Mysterium Vocis Choir. The concert presents a singular musical excursus on the Liturgy of Holy Week
Saturday 22 October at the Domus Ars, 20.00:XNUMX pm, with the concert Music for Holy Week in Naples - between the end of the XNUMXth and the beginning of the XNUMXth century - presented by the Mysterium Vocis Choir directed by Rosario Totaro, fourth appointment for Sicut Sagittae, the Baroque Music festival directed by Antonio Florio in residence at the Domus Ars, co-producer with the association Il Canto di Virgilio of the festival together with the association Cappella Neapolitana.
The Choir, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary this year, has collaborated with Antonio Florio since its foundation in 1992, under the direction of Rosario Totaro.
Thirty years marked by an intense concert activity, proposing obsolete scores belonging to the Neapolitan musical tradition of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, promoting in particular the diffusion of the sacred repertoire of the composers Pietrantonio Gallo, Pasquale Cafaro and Nicola Sala. The Choir combines the works with Florio with independent productions of concerts and records, in the full rigor of a philological recovery of the scores.
The concert presents a singular musical excursus on the Liturgy of Holy Week with three composers of the Neapolitan school belonging to different historical periods and covering the period from the end of the seventeenth century with the Easter Introit (the opening song of Easter Sunday) by Antonio Nola, an almost completely forgotten musician, to the nineteenth century with Gabriele Prota, passing through the eighteenth century with two compositions by Pietrantonio Gallo, active for much of the eighteenth century at the Neapolitan Conservatory of S. Maria di Loreto as a continuator of the work of Giovanni Veneziano and Francesco Durante.
Two of the first performances in modern times: Gallo's Lamentations of Holy Thursday and Prota's Litanies.
But the concert also offers a suggestive connection with the place that hosts the Domus Ars, the center of Art, Music and Culture, the church of San Francesco delle Monache. Built at the behest of the monarch Robert of Anjou and his wife Sancha of Majorca in 1325, to house the Poor Clares of the nearby Santa Chiara still under construction. The Litanies of Gabriele Prota, on the program, were written for female voices for use by the Collegio delle Donzelle, hosted at the beginning of the 800th century in the annexed Monastery of the Church, whose choir was directed by Rosalie Laurent, wife of Prota. College that was housed in the Monastery of the Church of San Francesco delle Monache, now Palazzo Mazziotti which incorporates the church.
Article published on 20 October 2022 - 18:14
