Lux in tenebris Silvia Frigato, Talenti Vulcanici & Emanuele Cardi

• Gennaro Manna (1715-1779):
• 1 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Aleph 00:50
• 2 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Ego vir - Aleph - Me minavit - Aleph 03:36
• 3 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Tantum in me vertit 00:15
• 4 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Beth (1) 00:25
• 5 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Vetustam fecit - Beth 00:25
• 6 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Aedificavit in gyro meo 01:37
• 7 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Beth (2) 00:25
• 8 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: In tenebrosis - Ghimel 02:47
• 9 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Circumaedificavit adversus me - Ghimel 00:28
• 10 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Sed et cum clamavero 02:33
• 11 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Ghimel 00:23
• 12 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Conclusit vias meas 00:15
• 13 Lamentazione terza del Giovedì Santo: Jerusalem, convertere 02:37
• Francesco Feo (1691-1761):
• 14 Verme crudel "La Sinderesi": Recitative. Verme crudel che del mio cor ti pasci 01:15
• 15 Verme crudel "La Sinderesi": Aria. Mentre veglio, col timore 05:45
• 16 Verme crudel "La Sinderesi": Recitative. Tu mi dipingi nel suo trono Iddio 01:57
• 17 Verme crudel "La Sinderesi": Aria. Piangerò fintanto, ahi lasso 04:12
• Gennaro Manna:
• 18 Lamentazione seconda del Giovedì Santo: Lamed 00:46
• 19 Lamentazione seconda del Giovedì Santo: Matribus suis 03:42
• 20 Lamentazione seconda del Giovedì Santo: Mem 00:47
• 21 Lamentazione seconda del Giovedì Santo: Cui comparabo 02:29
• 22 Lamentazione seconda del Giovedì Santo: Magna est enim 03:06
• 23 Lamentazione seconda del Giovedì Santo: Nun 00:21
• 24 Lamentazione seconda del Giovedì Santo: Prophetae tui 02:55
• 25 Lamentazione seconda del Giovedì Santo: Samech 00:23
• 26 Lamentazione seconda del Giovedì Santo: Plauserunt 00:35
• 27 Lamentazione seconda del Giovedì Santo: Jerusalem, convertere 01:42
• 28 Gloria Patri 04:18
• Total Runtime 50:49

Info for Lux in tenebris

One of the most talented singers of the new generation brings to light four gems for soprano and orchestra belonging to the great eighteenth -century tradition of Neapolitan sacred music. The three composers are representative of as many generations of an industrious dynasty: Francesco Feo (1691-1761) was the uncle of Gennaro Manna (1715-79), who in turn was the uncle of Gaetano (1751-1804). Comparison between their scores allows us to observe the extraordinary development from the austerity of the late Baroque to the elegance of the galant style. The Lamentations by the two Mannas were part of the liturgy of Holy Thursday (Officium tenebrarum), whereas Feo’s La sinderesi, a sorrowful meditation on sin and contrition, belongs to the form of the spiritual cantata and points to a private devotional environment. The short and bright Gloria by Gennaro Manna crowns the programme, symbolising the final achievement of a dimension of redemption and eternal salvation. All the pieces are characterised by the typically Neapolitan taste for purity of voice, with restrained virtuosity and radiant expressivity. This is the third instalment of the new series devoted to Neapolitan music, in collaboration with the Neapolitan Centro di Musica Antica - Fondazione Pietà de’ Turchini.

Silvia Frigato, soprano
Talenti Vulcanici
Emanuele Cardi, conductor

Silvia Frigato
studied Piano and Voice at the Music Conservatoire in Adria (Italy). She then continued her studies at the Music Academy in Modena (with Raina Kabaivanska), at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and at the State University in Sofia. She studied the 17th and 18th Century repertoire at the Académie Baroque Européenne in Ambronay and at the International Music Academy in Milan under the guidance of Roberta Invernizzi, Roberto Balconi, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Marina De Liso, and Sara Mingardo.

She won the first prize in the 4th edition of the “Francesco Provenzale” International Baroque Singing Competition in Naples (2007) and was awarded the first prize at the “Fatima Terzo” early music competition in Vicenza (2010).

She regularly performs in the most prestigious European festivals and venues, including: Monteverdi Festival in Cremona, Bologna Festival, Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio in Milan, Centro di Musica Antica Pietà de’ Turchini in Naples, Festival della Valle d’Itria, Festival in Martina Franca, Misteria Paschalia in Kraków, KunstFestSpiele Herrenhausen in Hannover, Konzerthaus in Wien, Festival de Radio France in Montpellier, to name only a few. She collaborates with such artists as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Ottavio Dantone, Philippe Herreweghe, Sigiswald Kuijken, Nicholas McGegan, Gianluca Capuano, Claudio Cavina, Antonio Florio, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Michael Radulescu and Paolo Zuccheri. She has perfomed with prestigious early music ensembles such as: Concerto Italiano, Collegium Vocale Gent, Accademia Bizantina, La Divina Armonia, La Venexiana, I Turchini, Gambe di Legno Consort, Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca, I Musicali Affetti and Il Canto di Orfeo.

Among her past engagements: Bononcini’s Stabat Mater and Messa à cinque concertata at the Konzerthaus in Wien with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini (recorded for Naïve - winner of the Choc de la musique in France); Handel’s Israel in Egypt on an Italian tour with Capella Savaria and Nicholas McGegan; a concert for MiTo 2012 dedicated to Artemisia Gentileschi, with Accademia d’Arcadia (then recorden on CD) and the direction of Anagoor; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Sara Mingardo and Concerto Italiano conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini at the Salle Gaveau in Paris; Vivaldi’s Motets in St. Pölten with I Turchini and Alessandro Ciccolini; Lulier’s Christmas Oratorio in Mauerbach with Gambe di Legno and Paolo Zuccheri (recorded for ORF); a Christmas concert (music by Vivaldi, Handel and Mozart) in Monte-Carlo with the Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo.

Silvia Frigato also performed: Caccini’s Euridice (title role) at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik with Concerto Italiano and Rinaldo Alessandrini (recorded for Naïve to rave rewievs); Christmas concerts in the Basilica of San Marco in Venice with the Orchestra of the Teatro La Fenice conducted by Stefano Montanari; Mozart’s Betulia Liberata at the Wratislavia Cantans Festival with B’Rock under Corrado Rovaris; Caldara’s Morte e Sepoltura di Cristo with the Stavanger Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Biondi (recored in CD by Glossa) and then on tour in Spain; Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice at the Maggio Musicale in Florence in a new production by Denis Krief conducted by Federico Maria Sardelli; Caldara’s Maddalena ai piedi di Cristo in Herne with Accademia Bizantina and Ottavio Dantone; L'Incoronazione di Poppea (Amore) at La Scala in Milan, in a new production by Robert Wilson under Rinaldo Alessandrini, recently revivaled; concerts in Karlsruhe with Concerto Romano and Alessandro Quarta; in Naples with Talenti Vulcanici and Stefano Demicheli; in Basel with the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and in Lausanne with Il Canto d’Orfeo and Gianluca Capuano. Silvia Frigato was selected by John Eliot Gardiner for his Accademia Monteverdiana and was invited to sing Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine (Soprano I) with the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra under John Eliot Gardiner on tour in Cambridge, Barcelona, Versailles and at the Salzburg Festival.

Most recently, Silvia Frigato participated in the production of Jommelli’s L’isola disabitata at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples under Rinaldo Alessandrini; Pelléas et Mélisande (Yniold) at the Maggio Musicale in Florence under Daniele Gatti in a new production by Daniele Abbado; Monteverdi’s Vespro with Collegium 1704 under Vaclav Luks in Prague and Dresden; Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater in Venice and Milan (with I Pomeriggi Musicali). She also performed Liederabend with the complete songs by Anton Weber at the Bologna Festival. She took part in concerts on tour in Germany with La Risonanza and Fabio Bonizzoni (Trigonale Festival); Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater with Sara Mingardo and Concerto Italiano conducted by Rinaldo Alessandrini at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and then in Bilbao; Juditha Triumphans (Vagaus) at the Teatro Comunale in Ferrara; the project Monteverdi 2.0 conducted by Spinosi with the Ensemble Matheus on tour in France; the debut of the title role in Martinů’s Mirandolina at the Teatro la Fenice in Venice; Biber’s Missa Salisburgensis in Salzburg and a Concert in Utrecht with Collegium 1704 and Václav Luks; two concerts at the Trigonale Festival with the Miszla Barok ensemble and Evanglina Mascardi; a Liederabend with texts by Schiller at the Palazzo Farnese in Parma.

Among her future engagements: De Falla’s El retablo de Maese Pedro at the Teatro Regio in Parma; Pergolesi’s Salve Regina and Stabat Mater in Madrid with Sara Mingardo and Accademia Bizantina under Ottavio Dantone; Christmas Concert at the Opera in Florence under Fratini; Paisiello’s La Serva Padrona in Lugo with Rinaldo Alessandrini; Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo in Barcelona and on tour in Asia again with Rinaldo Alessandrini and Concerto Italiano; Lisa in La Sonnambula at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice. Silvia Frigato has been selected for the 2017 Monteverdi project conducted by John Eliot Gardiner and will take part in the worldwide tour of Il Ritorno di Ulisse in patria (Amore) and L’Incoronazione di Poppea (Amore/ Valletto).

Silvia Frigato has recorded for the labels: Glossa, Naïve, ORF, Brillant, Tactus, Discantica, Ricercar and her recording were broadcasted on RAI, Radio France, BBC, ORF.

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