Nicola Antonio Porpora – Cantata Vulcano Aria ‘Non lasciar chi t’ama tanto’ by Franco Fagioli – Olivia Centurioni – Academia Montis Regalis Ensemble – Alessandro De Marchi

Nicola Antonio Porpora (1686 † 1768)

il maestro Porpora arias

Vulcano cantata for solo voice, 2 violins, viola, continuo

Dedicated to Frederic, Prince of Wales (London, 1735)

Aria ‘Non lasciar chi t’ama tanto’

Vulcano:
Non lasciar chi t’ama tanto
consumar di brama in pianto,
alma dea non far che in vano
stia Vulcano in tanto ardor.

Mi consumo a poco a poco,
agitato in fumo e in foco,
scherzo e gioco a strano amor.

Vulcano by Franco Fagioli, Countertenor

Performers:
Violins: Olivia Centurioni, (Concertmaster)
Agnes Kertez, Elisabeth Lochmann, Santiago Rodriguez, Katarzyna Solecka, Giorgio Tosi, Kinga Ujszaszi, Koji Yoda
Violas: Elena Saccomandi, Celine Lamarre, Dorothea Wieveg
Cellos: Giovanna Barbati, Ines Salinas, Verena Zauner
Double-bass: Roberto Bevilacqua, Fran Petrac
Oboes: Pier Luigi Fabretti, Aviad Gershoni
Recorders: Maria de Martini, Aviad Gershoni
Bassoon: Maria de Martini
Horns: Ermes Pecchinini, Dimer Maccaferri
Trumpets: Jonathan Pia, Michele Santi
Theorbe: Josep Maria Marti Duran
Wind Machine: Giovanna Barbati
Thunder Machine: Alessandro Baudlino, Giorgio Tabacco
Harpsichord & Organ: Mariangiola Martello
Harpsichord: Alessandro De Marchi

Alessandro De Marchi, director
Academia Montis Regalis Ensemble

[on period instruments]

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Artwork: The Stolen Kiss by Jean-Honoré Fragonard