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Alessandro Scarlatti - Cantatas

Classical | 3 CD | TT: 2h57'34" | 2007 | Brilliant

A genuine treasure. This is a selection of rarely-heard intimate compositions by the incredibly prolific composer Alessandro Scarlatti. Why is this music not performed more often?

Alessandro Scarlatti had great affinity with opera. He wrote dozens and dozens of them. His dramatic vein shows itself in many of his smaller-scale works too, as long as voices are involved. One or two voices is all this composer needs to tell a story convincingly.

This is what Scarlatti does in his secular cantatas (in which genre he wrote no less than 820 items!), duets and especially in the three intermezzos. Everywhere the music precisely conveys the meaning of text, which is partly in dialect. Here the composer achieves a unique level of expressiveness. On this recording the native Italian singers perform with a natural flow and heart-felt emotions.

In his time Alessandro Scarlatti found his style increasingly becoming outdated. More and more his love for formal counterpoint was being considered old-fashioned. Today, of course, this does not influence of our appreciation of his music any more. We hear essentially great Italian and lively music, especially in the genres recorded here.

The subject of most of the works on these records is love. The composer’s preference for high voices – including castrati at the time – is evident as well. Excellent performances by among others Cristina Miatello and Barbara di Castri.

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TRACKS:

CD 1 - Cantatas da Camera

1. Andate, o miei sospiri

2. Per un momento solo

3. Lascia più di tormentarmi

4. Lontan dalla sua Clori

5. Bella Madre de’ Fiori

Cristina Miatello, soprano tracks 1-4, Guido Morini, harpsichord tracks 1-4

Andrea Fossà, violoncello tracks 1-4, Gloria Banditelli, contralto track 5

Ensemble Aurora track 5

CD 2 - Cantatas and Duets

1. Ammore, brutto figlio de pottana cantata for tenor & b.c.

2-7.Sovente Amor mi chiama cantata for alto & b.c.

8-13. Son pur care la catene duet for soprano, alto & b.c.

14-17. Clori mia, Clori bella cantata for soprano, recorder & b.c.

18-23. Dimmi crudele, e quando duet for soprano, alto & b.c.

Cristina Miatello, soprano tracks 8, 11-18, 21-23, Claudio Cavina, alto tracks 2-10, 12, 1-20, 23

Giampaolo Fagotto, tenor track 1, Lodovica Scoppola, recorder tracks 14-17

Paolo Pandolfo, viola da gamba, Roberto Sensi, violone

Rinaldo Alessandrini, harpsichord all tracks

CD 3 - Intermezzi from Palandrana and Zaberlucco

Primo Intermezzo

1. Chi ha pieta’di una vedovella aria

2. Fortunata colei recitativo

3. Esser vile aria

4. Son tocca recitativo

5. Ame strega aria duetto

Secondo Intermezzo

6. Son rovinato recitative

7. Per te son tutto amor aria

8. Sicche’piu’ di Moschetta recitativo

9. E’ pur la dolce cosa aria

10. Obligato al favour recitativo

11. Zamberlucco, Palandrana aria duetto

Terzo Intermezzo

12. Io l’ho fatta aria

13. Eccola, stiam sul serio recitativo

14. Vantati, vantati aria

15. Le mie gioie aria duetto

16. Col baston aria duetto

Barbara di Castri, soprano, Palandrana, Gastone Sarti, tenor, Zamberlucco

Fortuna Ensemble, Roberto Cascio: Silvia Colli, Francesca Micconi, violins

Giorgio Spagnoli, oboe, Paolo Brunello, violoncello

Roberto Cascio, archlute, Marco Ghirotti, harpsichord



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