Luigi Giuseppe Capotorti (1767-1842)
Nuova Messa per Solennite Festiva
Divertimento grazioso
L'augurio del Santo Natale
Sinfonia
Innocente verginella

Barbara Massaro, soprano
Antonella Colaianni, mezzo-soprano
Francesca Faleo, violon
Vito della Valle di Pompei, piano
Soprani I

Anna Chiara Cecilia Amato
Erika Amato
Giovanna de Biase
Tonia Dell'Olio
Camilla Difonzo
Angela Giovine
Chiara Greco
Vittoria Petruzzella
Lucia Squeo
Rosalia Squeo

Soprani II

Annamaria Altomare
Isabella Catanzaro
Maria Ciccolella
Cinzia Claudio
Nana Dzamukashvili
Francesca Gangi
Mtilde Giampaolo
Antonietta Marsano

Contralti

Giovanna Altamura
Anna Maria de Bari
Marisa de Candia
Romilda Di Serio
Alina Gadaleta Caldarola
Beatrice La Forgia
Lucrezia Magarelli
Maria Giovanna Mongelli
Chiara Stella Paparella

Nicola Petruzzella, direction

For the 250th anniversary of Luigi Giuseppe Capotorti’s birth (Molfetta, 1767), the Association devised, designed and began to carry out a research and rediscovery project which would assign true value to the Molfettese composer and his works. Certainly, a challenge to oblivion as well as an act of knowledge we owe to younger generations for future memory. Maestro Luigi Capotorti was a talented musician and a leading composer in the Neapolitan music scene. He was successful and achieved fame in the first half of the 19th century and together with the many Apulian musicians who studied and worked in Naples, he was part of the “trading activism” which characterized the dynamism in music typical of the time, as the critic Moliterni remarked. His works, performed and greatly appreciated by the public of his time and recognized by his contemporary critics, still today deserve great attention. The content of this album does not focus on Capotorti’s theatre music, but rather on some of his sacred and instrumental compositions, performed in original version following philological editions and avoiding arrangements and transcriptions. The chosen sources are rare, some hardly known, some autographed, all enshrined in Italy: “Nuova Messa per solennità festiva” in the Diocesan Historical Archive in Molfetta; the arietta “Innocente Verginella” in the Convent of the Benedictine nuns in San Severo; “L’Augurio del Santo Natale” and “Sinfonia scritta a piena orchestra e ridotta per P.F.” in Biblioteca di San Pietro a Majella in Naples; “Divertimento grazioso” in Fondo Noseda Conservatory in Milan.