Feo: San Francesco di Sales

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Feo’s score is not a masterpiece on the level of Bach and Handel…but it is a work of skill and some imagination, especially in terms of the orchestral writing. It’s often ornate da capo arias... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2018, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 22nd Jun 2018
Catalogue No: GCD923409
Label: Glossa
Length: 2 hours 17 minutes

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Feo: San Francesco di Sales

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Monica Piccinini (soprano), Delphine Galou (alto), Luca Tittoto (bass), Roberta Mameli (soprano)
Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra
Fabio Biondi

Sinfonia

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Pt. 1: Eccoci giunti al fin

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Pt. 1: Nel verno più severo

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Pt. 1: Colla celeste guida, Signor

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Pt. 1: Queste dolanti lagrime

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Pt. 1: E quai pensier funesti

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Pt. 1: Già colla pallid' ombra

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Pt. 1: E puoi temer

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Pt. 1: Questo che spirano

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Pt. 1: Vedi, Francesco

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Pt. 1: Deponi un tanto orgoglio

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Pt. 1: E tu, che fai

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Pt. 1: Tu serbi accolto

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Pt. 1: E chi sei tu

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Pt. 1: Se dalla chiara fonte

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Pt. 1: Se che gli stessi

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Pt. 1: Tu sei la nube impura

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Pt. 1: E qualia noi d'avante

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Pt. 1: Quando più s'alza

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Pt. 1: Tu me paventa intanto

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Pt. 2: Padre, ravvisi come di Francesco

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Pt. 2: Tutte dell'Erebo

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Pt. 2: Se già disperi, oh Dio

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Pt. 2: Serbi l'ardire istesso

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Pt. 2: O Dio delle vendette

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Pt. 2: Sommo Dio, dal ciel discenda

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Pt. 2: Oh come lieto

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Pt. 2: Con la virtude istessa

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Pt. 2: Ch'il crederebbe mai

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Pt. 2: Pallid'ognora in volto

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Pt. 2: Empii, conosco il vostro reo

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Pt. 2: Intendi i sensi miei

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Pt. 2: Tu colle fole tue

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Pt. 2: Come stridente fulmine

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Pt. 2: Quale improvvisa luce

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Pt. 2: Voi dell'eterno pianto

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Pt. 2: Noi fuggiremo

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Pt. 2: Già l'Eresia

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Fabio Biondi’s immense curiosity for characterful music – especially of forgotten scores from the Baroque – yields another fabulous surprise with Francesco Feo’s oratorio San Francesco di Sales. Feo’s reputation is at last starting to wax after having waned dramatically in the nineteenth century and thenceforward: in his own age he was compared very highly with Bach and Handel, and Charles Burney was moved to describe his vocal music as being “full of fire and invention and force in the melody and expression of the words”; Feo was also a boon companion of Pergolesi.

He wrote both operas (such as Siface – which had a libretto by Metastasio) and church music, with compositions which demanded significant vocal virtuosity from his performers.

San Francesco di Sales: apostolo del Chablais is a set of reflections and imagery on the work of this inspirational Catholic Bishop of Geneva from the turn of the seventeenth century, and the oratorio probably saw the light of day in 1734.

This new release, further evidence of Glossa’s commitment to the music of the Neapolitan Baroque, presents Fabio Biondi directing the highly-versatile forces of the Stuttgarter Kammerorchester and four of today’s brightest and most stylish voices as the oratorio’s soloists: sopranos Monica Piccinini and Roberta Mameli, contralto Delphine Galou, and bass Luca Tittoto. Ample opportunity is also provided in Feo’s score for instrumental virtuosity, and Biondi’s own abundant violinistic flair is much to the fore here.

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June 2018

Feo’s score is not a masterpiece on the level of Bach and Handel…but it is a work of skill and some imagination, especially in terms of the orchestral writing. It’s often ornate da capo arias require fine voices and strong vocal techniques and are largely granted them here In a performance directed with authority by Fabio Biondi.

June 2018

While much of San Francesco di Sales is attractive, little of it is truly memorable…My interest was piqued due to aspects of Feo’s orchestration…Biondi has assembled an excellent line-up of singers. Delphine Galou’s willowy contralto brings great nobility to San Francesco, soft-grained but never plummy, Monica Piccinini’s agile soprano makes for a sparky, pure-toned Angel, while Roberta Mameli deploys a warmer vibrato as Heresy.

22nd April 2018

The music is unusually inventive, with swirling syncopated horns and wind. Fabio Biondi leads the stylish the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Alto Delphine Galou makes a fine Saint, but the devil in the form of Luca Tittoto’s bass Deceit has the best tunes.

Feo: San Francesco di Sales

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