Nova Ars Cantandi / Valotti, Ivana / Acciai, Giovanni
Nola: Motetti Pastorali Per La Solennità Del Santo Nate
Offered as a modern world-premiere recording, this release brings back to light the Motetti pastorali per la solennità del Santo Natale of Antonio Domenico Nola, a figure still partially veiled yet crucial within sacred Naples between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Recovered from the archive of the Girolamini, the collection arranges the Nativity as a small Latin oratorio, where airy recitative, trio, quartet and pastoral reminiscence converge in a dramaturgy of vivid affective force. Counterpoint, verbal eloquence and popular resonance combine in a Christmas fresco of singular evocative power.