This album is the second of the recording project of the Opera omnia of the Sabino's of Turi by the Baroque Ensemble "Giovanni Maria Sabino." It is mainly dedicated to Antonino Sabino, with his Vespro a cinque voci accompanied by a Lauda Sion by Giovanni Maria and the motets Deus meus, Scitote and Franciscus versus Christi pauper by Francesco Sabino, which conclude his cycle, since we do not know his other compositions. Excluding the Franciscus, which comes from the archives of the Cathedral of Mdina (Malta), all the other pieces come from the musical archive of the Girolamini of Naples and are part of a manuscript collection that also includes the Vespro a cinque voci by Giovanni Maria, proposed in the first release of this project, and another Vespro a cinque by Giovanni Maria Trabaci. The Vespro Breve by Antonino includes the following psalms: Dixit Domunis, Confitebor, Beatus vir, Laudate pueri and a Magnificat; two less than that by Giovanni Maria and precisely Nisi Dominus and Laetatus sum, not taken into consideration by the composer from Turi. Among the many aspects that characterize this impressive work, it is important to emphasize the stylistic continuity between Giovanni Maria and Antonino who best expresses what he learned from his uncle, but in an original way, demonstrating a talent worthy of his teacher. However, we are left with the regret of his early death, which has certainly precluded us from listening to further masterpieces, and we remain in the hope that the scores of the Messa and Salve Regina a otto voci con violini, no longer present in the Girolamini music archive, will be located again.
