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
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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 change1660-1725
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