Andrea Stefano Fiorè - Sinfonie da Chiesa e Arie Profane

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Nato a Milano nel 1686, Andrea Stefano Fioré, benché oggi dimenticato, è stato un vero enfant prodige della musica italiana. Allievo, fra gli altri, di Arcangelo Corelli a Roma, si guadagnò l'ammirazione e la stima di celebri contemporanei come il Quantz (il celebre teorico e flautista) e Benedetto Marcello, che cita «l'ammirabil maestria» e il «vasto talento» del compositore. Fioré fu attivo soprattutto presso la corte dei Savoia (le "Sinfonie", che il compositore scrive a tredici anni, «figlie più tosto del genio che del sapere», sono infatti «consagrate all'altezza reale di Vittorio Amedeo II, duca di Savoia e principe di Piemonte»). Come voleva il costume dell'epoca scrisse, oltre a un corpus di musica sacra dedicato alla Cappella Reale Sabauda, anche molta musica vocale, fra cui, per il teatro, ricordiamo l'Opera: Engelberta, rappresentata al Regio Ducal Teatro di Milano nel 1708, e da cui, in questa incisione, vengono presentate, sempre in prima mondiale, le Arie più significative, nell'interpretazione appassionata e superba di Angelo Manzotti.

Born in Milan in 1686, Andrea Stefano Fiorè, though somehow forgotten, has to be considered as a true enfant prodige concerning Italian music. While studying, among others, he was under the guidance of Arcangelo Corelli in Rome and he achieved great admiration and gained high esteem from some of his well-known contemporary artists, as J. J. Quantz (famous German flautist and composer), as well as Benedetto Marcello (Italian composer of great fame) who was mentioning about the composer's 'admirable knowledge' and 'huge talent'.

Fiorè had great influence especially at the Savoia Court (in fact the 'Symphonies' which have been written by the composer at the early age of 13 years and stated as 'resulting from a genious, rather than from a high-knowledged artist' have all been dedicated to sovereign Vittorio Amadeo II, Duke of Savoia and Prince of Piemont).

As it was the case at that time, Fiorè has been composing, besides a corpus of sacred music dedicated to the Sabaudian Royal Chapel, also a great number of vocal Arias, among which we shall remember the opera 'Engelberta' which has been performed at the Royal Ducal Theatre in Milan in 1708. Some of the most beautiful and expressive Arias of this Opera are to be found in this nice Concerto recording as a worldpremiere and performed by Angelo Manzotti with great passion and superb voice.

This disc, which represents excerpts from a set of 12 church symphonies published in Modena in 1699, along with seven arias drawn from the 1708 opera seria, Engelberta, presents a good example of how composers of the period actually operated, often moving fluidly between the genres, vocal and instrumental, according to the dictates and needs of their employment of economic circumstances. Andrea Stefano Fiorè (1686-1732) was just one such composer, who for the most part of his life was active at the Piedmontese court in Turin. Born in Milan, Fiorè was a child prodigy who was elected to the prestigious Accademia Filarmonica at the age of 11, eventually moving briefly to Rome to study with Corelli before returning as maestro di capella in Turin. Although his name is known today only as a footnote in lexicons, during his lifetime he was almost as popular as Scarlatti, composing at least 22 operas, which were performed over the entire continent. He also regularly published instrumental and sacred music, and his reputation was such that Quantz remarked after a visit in 1726 on the professionalism and quality of the Piedmontese orchestra.

tracklist:

Sinfonia No. 2, Op. 1

from di opera "Engelberta"

Degne di me non siete

Se son morta a la tua fede

Un bel sembiante ama sovente

È il mio cor tra vari affetti

Ardea felice amante

Selvagge amenità

Sinfonia No. 3, Op. 1

Sinfonia No. 5, Op. 1

Sinfonia No. 6, Op. 1

Sinfonia No. 8, Op. 1

Sinfonia No. 9, Op. 1

Angelo Manzotti

Ensemble Isabella Leonarda

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