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Scarlatti - Bella madre de’ fiori (cantatas) | Harmonia Mundi - HM Gold HMG501725

Scarlatti - Bella madre de’ fiori (cantatas)

Label: Harmonia Mundi - HM Gold

Cat No: HMG501725

Barcode: 0794881911028

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 30th March 2009

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Contents

Artists

Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano)
Concerto Soave

Conductor

Jean-Marc Aymes

Works

Scarlatti, Alessandro

Bella Dama di nome Santa
Cantata 'Correa nel seno amato'
Poi che riseppe Orfeo

Artists

Maria Cristina Kiehr (soprano)
Concerto Soave

Conductor

Jean-Marc Aymes

About

Whether it be in Palermo, where Alessandro Scarlatti was born, or in Rome, where he worked as a composer, the chamber cantata was inextricably linked with the aristocratic salons of the Italian peninsula in the 1680s and 1690s. These pieces, resolutely pastoral in tone, are set in the green landscapes of the Mediterranean basin, which vibrate to the laments of the turtle-dove and the murmur of springs. All nature is invited to share the grief of lovers: Cloris weeps for Fileno, Orpheus for Eurydice, whilst the gods, the spirits, the stars are omnipresent. Scarlatti was the ideal composer to paint this enchanted realm in music.

"The three cantatas recorded here are all first-class representatives of the genre to which Scarlatti contributed hundreds of examples….Kiehr, her soprano seductively coloured with an underlying fruitiness, relishes as much as the half-dozen members of Concerto Soave the elegantly expressive intensity of each work, and controls every nuance immaculately." - The Sunday Times

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