Alessandro Scarlatti – Diana et Endimione, Ero et Leandro (1999, FLAC)

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Performer:
Jacqueline Nicolas – soprano
Alain Aubin – contretenor
Stuart Deeks, Xavier Julien-Laferriere (violins/violins)
Helen Williams (alto/viola)
Alix Verzier (violoncello/cello)
Malcolm Bothwell (basse de viole/ bass viol)
Philippe Ramin (clavecin/harpsichord)

Tracklist:

1. Diana et Endimione (35:28)
2. Ero et Leandro (9:06)
3. Correa nel sen amato (23:25)

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Alessandro Scarlatti (2 May 1660 – 24 October 1725) was an Italian Baroque composer especially famous for his operas and chamber cantatas. He is considered the founder of the Neapolitan school of opera. Scarlatti’s music forms an important link between the early Baroque Italian vocal styles of the 17th century, with their centers in Florence, Venice and Rome, and the classical school of the 18th century, which culminated in Mozart. Besides the operas, oratorios (Agar et Ismaele esiliati, 1684; Christmas Oratorio, c. 1705; S. Filippo Neri, 1714; and others) and serenatas, which all exhibit a similar style, Scarlatti composed upwards of five hundred chamber-cantatas for solo voice. These represent the most intellectual type of chamber-music of their period, and it is to be regretted that they have remained almost entirely in manuscript, since a careful study of them is indispensable to anyone who wishes to form an adequate idea of Scarlatti’s development.