Artemandoline - Concerti Napoletani per Mandolino (2018) [Hi-Res]

Music has always been omnipresent in Naples. In the city’s opera houses, theatres and conservatories, it has found expression in a multitude of styles and genres, while also playing an important role in Naples’s innumerable salons and in the palazzi where the local clergy foregathered with music-loving patrons and other champions of the arts. Vocal and instrumental music was integral to most of the ceremonies and events in public life in every social stratum. Moreover, the outstanding reputation of the city’s conservatories, most of which had been established as orphanages in the 16th century, attracted only the most gifted students, laying the foundations for Naples’s exceptional reputation at this time.