Chamber Cantatas By Scarlatti & Bononcini
Label: TACTUS Catalog: TB660003 Format: CD Ensemble Aurora; Banditelli; GattiComposed by: Scarlatti; Bononcini Alessandro Scarlatti’s cantata Bella madre de’ fiori, opens with a slow-tempo Sinfonia followed by a series of arias and recitatives, the last of which is perhaps the most intensely poetic and stylistically original section of the whole cantata. + Giovanni Bononcini’s Il lamento di Olimpia opens with a two-movement delicately pastoral prelude; the most important dramatic moments of the text are in the two recitatives rather than in the cantata’s da capo arias. + For the cantata Care luci del mio bene, Bononcini has given us a composition of exquisite elegance in superb cantabile style. Price: $19.98 |