Scherzi Musicali

Scherzi Musicali

Never did nymphs and shepherds mourn so beautifully as in Alessandro Scarlatti's Arcadian cantatas: gems of musical and theatrical ingenuity. Scherzi Musicali sublimates the rural heartbreak with two voices and an instrumental combination that makes the arias and recitatives burst with colour. Poetry, rhetoric, delicate ornamentation, and an overwhelming richness of sound reign in intimate cantatas, proving once and for all that Scarlatti senior could also do without an opera stage.

Programme

• Alessandro Scarlatti

  Imagini d’orrore
  Aria - recitativo - aria
  
  O penosa lontananza
  Duo - recitativo - aria - recitativo - aria - duo
  
  Sovra carro stellato
  Sinfonia - recitativo accompagnato - aria - recitativo - aria - recitativo - aria
  
  Tu resti, o mio bel nume
  Recitativo accompagnato - aria - recitativo - aria
  
  Programme subject to change

  1660-1725

Musicians

• Wei-Lian Huang soprano
• Ann Cnop, Jorlen Verga violin
• Ronan Kernoa viola da gamba
• François Dambois theorbo, guitar
• Beniamino Paganini harpsichord
• Nicolas Achten musical direction, baritone, theorbo, harp