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Alessandro Scarlatti
Alessandro Scarlatti
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Videos from the historically-inspired production of Scarlatti's
Tigrane at the 2008 Bloomington Early Music Festival.
Alessandro Scarlatti
2010 - includes online scores of the serenatas La Gloria di
Primavera; Partenope, Teti, Nettuno, Proteo e Glauco; Genio di
Partenope; Clori, Lidia e Filli; & Venere e Amore
The (Alessandro)
Scarlatti Project
L'Opéra Baroque - Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti
Edward Dent, Alessandro Scarlatti, His Life & Works
(1905).
Performances
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Alessandro Scarlatti. Il Tigrane (Naples 1715).
Gilbert Bezzina, Ensemble Baroque de Nice. Historically informed
staging by Gilbert Blin. Tomiri: Olga Pasichnyk, soprano;
Tigrane: Flavio Ferri-Benedetti,
countertenor; Meroe: Yulia van Doren, soprano; Policare: José
Lemos, countertenor; Doraspe: Anicio Zorzi Guistiniani, tenor;
Dorilla: Mireille Lebel, mezzo-soprano; Orcone: Douglas
Williams, bass. Opéra de Nice, 1, 3, 5 June 2012.
Details.
Académie Desprez.
Video of
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Recent Recordings
| Alessandro Scarlatti, Handel. Dixit Dominus. Avie (1 CD,
May 2013). Owen Rees, Choir of The Queens College Oxford, The Brook
Street Band. Elin Manahan Thomas, soprano; Esther Brazil, mezzo-soprano;
Sally Bruce-Payne, mezzo-soprano; Guy Cutting, tenor; Matthew Brook,
bass.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Profano e
Sacro - The music of Alessandro Scarlatti.
Avanti (1 CD, February 2013).
Details /
Video. Dominque Corbiau, countertenor. Michel
Keustermans, La Cetra d'Orfeo.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Ardo è ver - Cantate e
Sonate con il Flauto.
Stradivarius STR 33922 (1 CD, July 2012).
Details.
Valentina Varriale, soprano; Tommaso Rossi, recorder. Ensemble Barocco
di Napoli.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Vespro della Beata
Vergine. Rondeau (1 CD,
June 2012). Frank Markowitsch, Vokalakademie Berlin.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti.
L'Olimpia, L'Arianna, Su le sponde del Tebro.
cpo (1 CD, May 2012). Adriana Fernández, soprano.
Marcello Di Lisa, Concerto de' Cavalieri.
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| Leonardo Vinci (1690-1730).
Fileno - Soprano Cantatas. Pan Classics PC
10266 (1 CD,
April 2012). Emanuela Galli, soprano; Francesca
Cassinari, soprano. Stefano Aresi, Stile Galante.
Includes "Fille, tu parti", a cantata by Alessandro
Scarlatti formerly attributed to Vinci.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti, Bagio, Cavalli,
Strozzi, Faggioli, Falconieri, Marini, Monteverdi.
Ferveur et Extase. Ambronay (1 CD,
October 2011). Stéphanie d'Oustrac, mezzo-soprano.
Héloïse Gaillard, Amarillus. Includes fragments from
Scarlatti's La Didone delirante.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Penelope
La Casta (Naples 1696). Forthcoming.
Details (pdf). Wolfgang Katschner, Lautten
Compagney. Penelope: Dorothee Mields, soprano; Ulisse:
Kobie van Rensburg, tenor; Elvida: Cécile van de Sant,
mezzo-soprano; Lutezio: Owen Willetts, countertenor;
Gismondo: Yosemeh Adjei, countertenor; Orimante: James
Elliott, tenor; Gildo: Florian Götz, baritone; Arienne:
Bele Kumberger, soprano; Matteo Sassano: Henning Kaiser,
tenor. |
| Alessandro Scarlatti. Didone
delirante (Naples 1696). Forthcoming.
Details.
Wolfgang Katschner, Lautten Compagney. Enea: Anne
Dietzmann, mezzo-soprano; Acate: Anne Schneider,
soprano; Didone: Olivia Vermeulen, mezzo-soprano; Anna:
Katharina Boschmann, soprano; Frullo: Matthias Vieweg,
bass; Creuso: Yosemeh Adjel, countertenor; Sicambre:
Susanne Langbein, soprano. |
| Alessandro Scarlatti. Cantatas.
cpo. Forthcoming. Adriana Fernández, soprano. Gabriele
Cassone, trumpet. Marcello Di Lisa, Concerto de'
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Venere,
Amore e Ragione (Serenata, Rome 1706). La
Bottega Discantica BDI 209 (1 CD, June 2011).
Details. Piero Cartosio, Orchestra Barocca Les
Eléments. Venere: Veronica Lima, soprano; Amore:
Gabriella Costa, soprano; Ragione: Elena Biscuola,
mezzo-soprano.
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| Monteverdi, Bencini, Melani, Soler,
Alessandro Scarlatti, Carissimi, Stravinsky. Per la Vergine Maria.
Naïve Opus 111 OP 30505 (1 CD, May 2011).
Details. Rinaldo
Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano. Includes Scarlatti's
Salve Regina a 4 voci.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Opera
Arias. dhm 88697842162 (1 CD, April 2011).
Details. Daniela Barcellona, contralto. Marcello Di
Lisa, Concerto de'Cavalieri.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Serenata a Filli Il Sole,
Urania e Clio. Glossa GCD 921511 (1 CD, April 2011). Fabio
Bonizzoni, La Risonanza. Emanuela Galli, soprano;
Yetzabel Arias Fernández, soprano; Martín Oro,
countertenor.
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| Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti. Il Primo
Uomo - Arias for Nicolini. dhm 88697816252 (1 CD, March
2011).
Details. Dmitry Egorov, countertenor. Michael Schneider,
La Stagione Frankfurt. Excerpts from Scarlatti's
Tigrane & La caduta de' decemviri and
Handel's Rinaldo & Amadigi, plus
ballet music from Ariodante.
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G.B. & A.M. Bononcini, Alessandro
Scarlatti, Caldara, Broschi, Matteis. Colori D'Amore - Opera Arias.
Sony 88697789202 (1 CD, October 2010).
Details. Simone Kermes, soprano. Claudio Osele, Le
Musiche Nove. Includes "Ombra mai fu" from G.B.
Bononcini's Serse (video),
which Handel borrowed and modified, & Caldara's Per
combatter (video).
Outstanding recording! This is one my favorite
collections of arias.
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Deluxe edition?
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Alessandro Scarlatti.
Lamentazioni per la Settimana Santa. Symphonia
SY92D17 (2 CDs, 1993). Enrico Gatti, Ensemble Aurora.
Cristina Miatello, soprano; Gianpolo Fagotto, tenor. Outstanding recording! I'm glad it's being reissued on a
label with better distribution than Symphonia. There is
no overlap with Gester's 1993 disk of Scarlatti
Lamentazioni.
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Reissued on Glossa GCD 921205 (February
2011).
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Nisi
Dominus / Salve Regina. cpo 777 476-2 (1 CD, September
2010). Marcello di Lisa, Concerto de'Cavalieri. Gemma
Bertagnolli, soprano; Adriana Fernández, soprano; Sara
Mingardo, contralto; Martín Oro, countertenor; Furio
Zanasi, baritone; Antonio Abete, bass. This is a fine
recording that I highly recommend. Some works sounded
familiar, but I haven't checked for overlap with the
McGegan and Lesne recordings, which are also quite
worthwhile.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Vespro della Beata
Vergine for five voices and basso continuo.
Atma (1 CD, May 2010). Harry van der Kamp, Nederlands Kamerkoor.
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Alessandro Scarlatti. Complete Keyboard Works,
vol. 2. Atma (2 CDs, May 2010). Alexander Weimann, organ.
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Vol. 1. Toccatas. Atma
ACD 22321 (1 CD, 2005). Alexander Weimann, harpsichord.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. San Filippo Neri
(1705).
Brilliant Classics 94037 (2 CDs, April 2010.)
Details. Estevan Velardi,
Alessandro Stradella Consort. Carità: Rosita Frisani, soprano;
Fede: Marco Lazzara, countertenor; Speranza: Manuela Custer,
mezzo-soprano; San Fillippo: Mario Nuvoli, tenor.
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Alessandro Scarlatti. Cantatas & Chamber Music. Chandos
Chaconne 0768 (1 CD, April
2010). Clara Rottsolk, soprano. Tempesta di Mare Chamber
Players. "Quella pace gradita", "Non sò qual più m'ingombra"
(Cantata pastorale), "Bella dama di nome Santa", Concerto IX.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti & Francesco Durante.
Umana e inumana: Cantatas. Arion (1 CD, March 2010). Jay
Bernfeld, Fuoco e Cenere. Isabelle Poulenard, soprano;
Guillemette Laurens, mezzo-soprano.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Opera omnia for
keyboard - vol. III. Tactus TC 661913 (1 CD, March 2010).
Details. Francesco Tasini, organ.
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| Leo, Pegolesi, Scarlatti. Sacred Music from
Naples. dhm 88697539442 (1 CD, February 2010).
Details.
Alan Curtis, Il Complesso Barocco. Mary-Ellen Nesi,
mezzo-soprano; Catherine Jones, cello. This is one of my
favorite recordings of 2010. It includes 2 Salve Reginas
by Leo, 2 by Pergolesi, 1 by Scarlatti, and a cello concerto by
Leo.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Cantatas. Naxos
Germany 8.551283 (1 CD,
December 2009).
Details. Susanna Crespo Held, soprano. Musica Poëtica. Io
son pur solo; Il Rossignuolo; Sento nel core; No marirei
contento; Lascia, deh, lasica. Booklet in German and Italian
only.
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Alessandro Scarlatti. Davidis pugna et victoria. Hyperion
CDA 67714 (1 CD, October
2009).
Details.
Alessandro De Marchi, Academia Montis Regalis. David: Roberta
Invernizzi, soprano; Jonatha: Robin Johannsen, soprano; Saul:
Martín Oro, countertenor; Testo: Fredrik Akselberg, tenor; Golia:
Antonio Abete, bass. Scarlatti's only surviving Latin oratorio.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Il Pastor di Corinto
(Favola pastorale, Naples 1701).
Bongiovanni AB 20013 (1 DVD, March 2009).
Details.
Lorenzo Tozzi, Romabarocca Ensemble. Clori: Bruna Tredicine,
soprano; Silvio: Caterina Novak, mezzo-soprano; Niso: Cristina
Cappellini, soprano; Melisso: Carlo Putelli, tenor; Serpilla:
Roberta De Nicola, soprano; Serpollo: Massimo Di Stefano, bass.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Intermezzi: Pericca e Varrone
/ Leonzio ed Eurilla. Hungaroton HCD 32563 (1 CD, March 2009).
Details. Pál Németh, Savaria
Baroque Orchestra. Bernadett Wiedemann, mezzo-soprano; László
Jekl, bass.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Giuditta (second
setting, 1697, the "Cambridge Giuditta"). Dynamic CDS 596 (1 CD, March 2009).
Details.
Gilbert Bezzina, Ensemble Baroque de Nice. Giuditta: Sophie
Landy, soprano; Oloferne: Carl Ghazarossian, bass; Nurse:
Raphaël Pichon, countertenor. I only know of one previous
recording, by Velardi on Bongiovanni.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Euridice dall'Inferno
(1699) / La concettione della Beata Vergine (Rome 1703).
Naxos 8.570950 (1 CD, March 2009).
Details.
Libretto (pdf). Ars Lyrica Houston.
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 Alessandro
Scarlatti. Venere, Adone e Amore: Serenatas & Cantatas.
ABC Classics 476 617-0 (3 CDs, December 2007).
Details. Rosalind Halton, Chacona. Jane Edwards, soprano;
Miriam Allan, soprano; Vivien Hamilton, soprano; Tessa Miller,
soprano; James Sanderson, countertenor. The second & third CDs
are a reissue of the 2-CD set "Olimpia - Cantatas of Alessandro
Scarlatti", ABC Classics 461 687-2 (2000).
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| Alessandro Scarlatti & Pergolesi. Masses.
Naïve / Opus 111 OP 30461 (1 CD, October 2008). Rinaldo
Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano. Scarlatti, Messa per il
Santissimo Natale (1707); Pergolesi, Messa Romana "di S. Emidio"
(1734).
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 Alessandro
Scarlatti. Il Martirio di Santa Cecilia (1708). cpo 777
258-2 (2 CDs, April 2008). Previously released on Classic Voice
TVO 046 (2003, 2000). Diego Fasolis, I Barocchisti. Cecilia:
Nancy Argenta, soprano; Nutrice: Marinella Pennicchi, soprano;
Almachin: Bernhard Landauer, countertenor; Il suo Consigliere:
Marco Beasley, tenor.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Concertos pour flûte.
Atma ACD22521 (1 CD, November 2007).
Details. Francis Copron, Les Boréades.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Opera omnia per
tastiera, Vol. 1. Tactus TC 661811 (1 CD, September 2007).
Details. Francesco Tasini, anonymous 18th Century Italian
harpsichord.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Sinfonie da concerto
grosso, parte prima (I-VI) & Concerto per flauto e b.c.
Tactus TC 661906 (1 CD, September 2007).
Details. Enrico Casazza, Accademia della Magnifica Comunità.
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| Pergolesi & Alessandro Scarlatti. Stabat
Mater. Proprius PRSACD 2040 (1 CD, July 2007). Suzanne
Rydén, soprano; Mikael Bellini, countertenor. Stockholm Baroque
Orchestra.
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 Alessandro
Scarlatti. Magnificat / Dixit Dominus / Madrigali. Naïve
/ Opus 111 OP 30350 (1 CD, April 2007). Rinaldo Alessandrini,
Concerto Italiano. Anna Simboli, soprano; Elisabetta Tiso,
soprano; Paolo Costa, countertenor; Gianluca Ferrarini, tenor;
Sergio Foresti, bass. Polyphonic music for voices and continuo,
of which the Magnificat is the finest work. Four settings of
Dixit Dominus by Alessandro Scarlatti are known. This is
different from the one recorded by Pinnock in 1988. 5 of the 7
madrigals recorded by Rooley are on this CD.
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 Alessandro
Scarlatti. Il Martirio di Sant'Orsola (Rome c.1695-1700).
Ligia Digital LiDi 0202176-07 (1 CD, January 2007).
Details. Franck-Emmanuel Comte, Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu.
Orsola: Stéphanie Révidat, soprano; Florida: Marina Venant,
soprano; Giesù: Jean-Paul Bonnevalle, countertenor; Ereo:
François Roche, tenor; Giulio Tiranno: Benoît Arnould, bass.
This is one of the finest recordings of a Scarlatti oratorio to
date. The difficult trumpet aria for bass "Al suon delle trombe"
is skillfully performed by Philippe Genestier. No English
translations included.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Cantatas for Bass &
Obbligato Instruments. Hungaroton HCD 32456 (1 CD, January
2007).
Details. Péter Fried, bass. Pál Németh, Savaria Baroque
Orchestra.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Totus Amore.
Deux-Elles DXL1054 (1 CD, August 2006).
Details. Ryland Angel, countertenor. Patrick Cohën-Akenine,
Les Folies Françoises. Includes works by Bassani, Corelli, and
Stradella.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Inferno: Cantate
drammatiche. cpo 777 141-2 (1 CD, May 2006). Federico Maria
Sardelli, Modo Antiquo. Elisabeth Scholl, soprano. Clifford
Bartlett wrote in Early Music Review 114:36 (August
2006): "This is definitely the best Scarlatti recording I've
heard. The singing is accurate, in tune, spirited, musical and
utterly delightful, and doesn't get out of scale, despite the
dramatic nature of the music . . . . There is also some
incredibly beautiful playing . . . . . The excellent booklet
notes are by Elisabeth Scholl herself, who also translated them
into English, translated the texts into German and English, and
edited the music."
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Con Voce Festiva
(Cantatas). Ligia Digital LiDi 0202167-06 (1 CD, April
2006). Jean-Marc Andrieu, Les Passions Orchestre Baroque de
Montauban. Isabelle Poulenard, soprano; Serge Tizac, trumpet.
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| Polyphonic Music of the Scarlatti Family.
Etcetera KTC 1298 (1 CD, February 2006). Alessandro Scarlatti,
Salve Regina Op. 2 No. 10; Domenico Scarlatti, Missa
Quatuor Vocum (di Madrid) & Magnificat anima mea;
Francesco Scarlatti, Miserere mei Deus.
Details. Florian Heyerick, Ex Tempore.
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 Alessandro
Scarlatti. La Giuditta. (Naples 1693). Ambronay AMY003 (1
CD, January 2006.)
NewOlde.com 2006 Best 17th Century Oratorio CD Award. Martin
Gester, Le Parlement de Musique. Giuditta: Celine Ricci,
soprano; Ozias: Adriana Fernández, soprano; Oloferne: Martín
Oro, countertenor; Achiore: Vincenzo Di Donato, tenor;
Sacerdote: Bruno Rostand, bass. Excellent recording of the
oratorio that Scarlatti considered to be his best. Clearly
superior to the earlier recording by McGegan on Hungaroton.
Scarlatti's "Cambridge" Giuditta, recorded by Velardi and
Comparone (modern instruments), is a different oratorio for
three voices.
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Alessandro
Scarlatti, Stabat Mater / Concerto for Recorder XXI. Atma
ACD2 2237 (1 CD, October 2005).
Details. Theatre of Early Music. Emma Kirkby, soprano;
Daniel Taylor, countertenor. Francis Colpron, recorder.
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| Handel, Lotti, Albinoni, Porpora & Alessandro
Scarlatti. Arias for Senesino. Decca 4756569 (1 CD,
September 2005). Andreas Scholl, countertenor. Ottavio Dantone,
Accademia Bizantina.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti, Caldara & Handel.
Opera Prohibita. Decca 4756924 (1 CD, September 2005).
Details. Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano. Marc Minkowski, Les
Musiciens du Louvre.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Messa per il SS.mo
Natale (1707). Stradivarius 33646 (1 CD, March 2005.)
Michele Gasbarro, I Musici di Santa Pelagia, Ensemble Vocale
"Festina Lente".
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Disperato Amore.
Analekta AN 2 9904 (1 CD 2005). Matthew White, countertenor. Les
Voix Baroques. Cantatas "Ombre tacite e sole"; "Bella quanto
crudel spietata Irene"; "Non so qual più m'ingombra"; Motet
Infirmata; & two sonatas.
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| Pergolesi, Stabat Mater, Alessandro
Scarlatti, Salve Regina. & Vivaldi, Sinfonia & Sonata.
Studio SM D3015 (1 CD 2004).
Details. Rémy Fombon, Le Collegium Baroque. Paul Laumont,
sopranist; Benoît Petit, countertenor.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Cecilian Vespers.
Avie AV 0048 (2 CDs, November 2004). Nicholas McGegan,
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. Susanne Rydén & Dominique
Labelle, sopranos; Ryland Angel, countertenor; Michael Slattery,
tenor; Neal Davies, bass. Also includes a Nisi Dominus, Salve
Regina & Audi filia.
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| Francesco Scarlatti (1666-c.1741). Miserere
Mei, Dixit Dominus, Mass. Deux-Elles DXL 1096 (1 CD, June
2004). A younger brother of Alessandro, who wound up in Dublin.
Christopher Monks, Armonico Consort & Concerto Gallese Baroque
Orchestra. Emma Kirkby, soprano.
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Alessandro Scarlatti. Oratorio Per La
Santissima Trinità ovvero Fede, Teologia, Amor divino, Infedeltà
e Tempo (1715). Virgin 7254 5 45666 2 2 (1 CD, June 2004.)
Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante. Fede: Roberta Invernizzi, soprano;
Amor Divino: Véronique Gens, soprano; Teologia: Vivica Genaux,
mezzo-soprano; Infedeltà: Paul Agnew, tenor; Tempo: Roberto
Abbandanza, bass. Outstanding performance and recording! I don't
have Velardi's 2-CD version, but have been advised it contains
the same music performed much slower -- 83'49 versus Biondi's
67'27.
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Reissued in 2010.
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 Alessandro
Scarlatti. Colpa, Pentimento e Grazia (1708). Harmonia
Mundi Ibérica HMI 98745/46 (2 CDs, March 2004). Live recording
by JDN
at the Ayamonte Festival, August 2003. Eduardo López Banzo,
Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla. Grazia: María Espada, soprano;
Colpa: Lola Casariego, mezzo-soprano; Pentimento: Martín Oro,
countertenor. This is an outstanding oratorio, possibly
Scarlatti's finest, and a superb performance and recording that
I highly recommend. I haven't heard the earlier recording by
Michael Schneider & La Stagione Frankfurt on Capriccio 10411/12,
but
here is a radio broadcast of a fine performance by Schneider
with Invernizzi from the 2008 Halle Handel Festival.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Il Giardino di Rose:
Sinfonie & Concerti. Decca 470 650-2 (1 CD 2004).
Details. Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina. Reconstructed
harpsichord concerti and other works. SACD:
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Agar et Ismaele
Esiliati (1683). Centaur 2664 (1 CD 2004). Byron Schenkman,
Seattle Baroque. Melissa Fogarty, Karina Gauvin, Jennifer Lane,
Nathaniel Watson.
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 Arcadia.
Decca 4702962 (US: B0001808-02) (1 CD 2003). Bendetto Marcello,
Quando penso agl'affani; Francesco Gasparini, Destati,
Lidia mia; Ecco, che alfin ritorno; Bernardo
Pasquini, Navicella, ove ten vai; Sinfonia a quattro;
Arcangelo Corelli, Concertino a 7; Alessandro Scarlatti,
Ferma omai, fugace e bella. Andreas Scholl, countertenor.
Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina. Superb recording of
previously unknown pastoral cantatas, the most elaborate of
which is by Marcello.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Griselda (Rome
1721). Harmonia Mundi HMC 801805/07 (3 SACDs) & HMC 901805/07 (3
CDs), September 2003. René Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik
Berlin. Griselda: Dorothea Röschmann, soprano; Costanza:
Verónica Cangemi, soprano; Gualtiero: Lawrence Zazzo,
countertenor; Ottone: Bernarda Fink, mezzo-soprano; Roberto:
Silvia Tro Santafé, contralto; Corrado: Kobie van Rensburg,
tenor. Scarlatti's last surviving opera, and according to
Daniel
Heartz, his best. Hasse copied several arias and attempted
to smooth out the phrasing and simplify the harmony. (Reproduced
in
Strohm 1975). The all-male cast at the first known public
performance included the famous castrati Bernacchi (as
Gualtiero) and
Carestini, for whom Scarlatti extensively revised and
expanded Costanza's music. Reviewed by Anthony Hicks in Early
Music Review 96:18-19 (December 2003): "Jacobs' general
respect for Scarlatti's score here is in marked contrast to his
recent treatment of Handel's Rinaldo. . . . There are
several cuts, including nine of the arias in the main text of
Donald Grout's Harvard edition and a good deal of recitative,
but these are excusable, given the exceptional length of the
opera, and Jacobs adds back two items deleted by Scarlatti
before performance, an orchestral movement and Corrado's aria
'Non lasciar' in Act I, the latter being well worth rescuing."
This is a great opera, and IHMO, the finest work by
Alessandro Scarlatti yet recorded. With the singers and players engaged, it could have been a A+ production.
But it isn't, because of René Jacobs, who does his best to turn
everything he touches into a German passion oratorio. The
non-historic organ continuo added by Jacobs in the majority of
movements overpowers arias and slows down recitative. Who else
but Jacobs would insert an organ into an aria starting with
"Agitato" and marked Vivace? I disagree with Anthony Hicks that
Jacobs' numerous cuts were "excusable". With only 3 hours of
music on 3 CDs, there was an hour of unused space -- plenty of
room for a complete performance. Jacobs reduces Act III to a
fragment of less than 43 minutes, dominated by ponderous
recitative. As usual, HM failed to include a full libretto,
covering up Jacobs' undisclosed cuts but depriving the few
customers interested in the text of an unadulterated version. At
least when Jacobs butchers popular works, such as Handel's
Rinaldo and Saul, one can turn to the superior,
historically-inspired alternatives. Unfortunately, there is no
alternative for Scarlatti's Griselda. Furthermore,
the engineers botched the sound balance, making the singers too
loud. CDs:
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Complete score, notes and English translation: The
Operas of Alessandro Scarlatti: Vol. 3, Griselda. Donald Jay
Grout (ed.). Harvard University Press, 1975. 290 pages. Includes
in an appendix movements that were cancelled or replaced prior
to performance. Unfortunately, the Italian libretti are not
published separate from the music in Harvard's excellent series
of Scarlatti opera scores.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Il Trionfo
dell'Onestá; Venere e Amore. (2 serenatas).
Details. Hungaroton HCD 32101 (1 CD 2003). Pál Németh,
Savaria Baroque Orchestra. Onestà / Venere: Mónika González,
soprano; Cupido / Amore: Andrea Ulbrich, mezzo-soprano. Anna
Januj, recorder (Venere e Amore).
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Oratorio Per La
Santissima Trinità ovvero Fede, Teologia, Amor divino, Infedeltà
e Tempo (1715). Bongiovanni GB 2344/45-2 (2 CDs, 2003).
Estevan Velardi, Alessandro Stradella Consort. Fede: Linda
Campanella, soprano; Teologia: Silvia Bossa soprano; Amor
Divino: Gianluca Belfiori Doro, contralto; Infedeltà: Mario
Cecchetti, tenor; Tempo: Carlo Lepore, bass.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Il Dolore di Maria
Vergine (1717). Bongiovanni GB 2324/25-2 (2 CDs + CD-ROM
containing facsimile score, 2003). Estevan Velardi, Alessandro
Stradella Consort. Maria: Rosita Frisani; Nicodemo: Gianluca
Belfiori Doro; San Giovanni: Anna Chierichetti; Onia: Mario
Cecchetti. Favorably reviewed by David J. Levy in Early Music
Review 89: 15-16 (April 2003). I disagree. As usual, it's a
very slow performance. New for Velardi is the obnoxious,
strumming guitar that spoils many arias. The Spinosi plague
obviously has spread to Italy.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Intermezzi fra
Palandrana vecchia vedova e Zamberlucco giovine da bravo.
Tactus TC 661908 (1 CD, 2002). Roberto Cascio, Fortuna Ensemble.
Barbara di Castri, Gastone Sarti.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Il Giardino d'Amore.
Bongiovanni GB 2327 (1 CD, 2002). Estevan Velardi, Alessandro
Stradella Consort. Rosita Frisani, Amor Lillia Perez.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Sedecia, Rè di
Gerusalemme (1706). Virgin Veritas 7243 5 45444 2 1 (2 CDs
2001). Sedecia: Gérard Lesne, countertenor & director, Il
Seminario Musicale. Anna: Virginie Pochon, soprano; Ismaele:
Philippe Jaroussky, sopranist; Nabucco: Peter Harvey, bass;
Nadabbe: Mark Padmore, tenor.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Sedecia, Rè di
Gerusalemme (1706). Bongiovanni GB 2278 (2 CDs, 2001).
Estevan Velardi, Alessandro Stradella Consort, Ars Cantica
Choir. Sedecia: Amor Lillia Perez; Anna: Alessandra Capici;
Ismale: Rosita Frisani; Nadabbe: Mario Cecchetti; Nabucco: Marco
Vinco.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Bella madre dei fiori
- Cantatas. Harmonia Mundi HMC 901725. (1 CD 2001). Maria
Cristina Kiehr, Jean-Marc Aymes, Concerto Soave.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. San Casimiro, Rè di
Polonia. Acte Préalable AP0025 (1 CD 2000).
Details. Jerzy Żak, lute and conductor. Regio Fasto: Olga
Pasiecznik, soprano; Amor Profano: Jacek Laszczkowski,
sopranist; Castità: Anna Mikołajczyk, soprano; Umilità: Marcin
Ciszewski, countertenor; San Casimiro: Krzysztof Szmyt, tenor.
Basso ripieno: Jaroslaw Brek.
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Recommended Recordings
 Pergolesi
& Alessandro Scarlatti. Stabat Mater. Opus 111 OPS 30160
(1 CD 1999). Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano. Gemma
Bertagnolli, soprano; Sara Mingardo, contralto.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Stabat Mater.
Virgin Veritas 7243 5 45366-2. (1 CD 1999). Gérard Lesne,
Sandrine Piau, Jean-François Novelli, Il Seminario Musicale.
Also includes a Salve Regina and Quae est ista.
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 Alessandro
Scarlatti. Toccate per cembalo, including variations on La
Folia. Arcana A3 (1 CD, 1992). Rinaldo Alessandrini playing
an historic Italian harpsichord.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Cantata per la Notte
di Natale: Abramo, il tuo sembiante. Opus 111 OPS 30-156 (1 CD
1996). Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano. Daniele: Rossana
Bertini, soprano; Exechiele: Elena Cecchi Fedi, soprano; Geremia:
Claudio Cavina, countertenor; Isaia: Sandro Naglia, tenor;
Abramo: Sergio Foresti, bass.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Humanità e Lucifero
(1704) & La Maddelena. Reissued as a 2-CD set on Naïve-Opus
111 têteàtête OP 20013 (2003). Details below. The têteàtête
reissues lack texts, and Naïve has falsely represented for more
than 4 years that the original brochures are available online.
One correspondent reports that in response to his request, Naïve
sent him photocopies of the missing booklets.
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Alessandro Scarlatti. Humanità e Lucifero
(1704). Plus two trio sonatas by Corelli. Opus 111 OPS
30-129 (1 CD 1996). Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante. Rossana
Bertini, Massimo Crispi.
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Reissued May 2010:
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. La Maddalena. Opus
111 OPS 30-96 (1 CD 1993). Fabio Biondi, Europa Galante.
Penitenza: Gloria Banditelli; Gioventù: Rossana Bertini;
Maddalena: Silvia Piccollo.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Davidis Pugna et
Victoria (1700). Agorà AG 249 (1 CD, 2000). Giovanni
Battista Columbro, Cappella Palatina. Textus: Giorgio Erle,
tenor; Saul: Paola Reggiani, contralto; Jonatha: Patrizia Mora,
soprano; David: Annamaria Calciolari, soprano; Goliat: Sergio
Foresti, bass. Coro della Schola S. Rocco, Francesco Erle,
Maestro del Coro.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Il Primo Omicidio
(Cain). Harmonia Mundi HMC 901649/50 (2 CDs 1998). René
Jacobs, Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin. Graciela Oddone,
Dorothea Röschmann, Bernarda Fink, Richard Croft, Antonio Abete.
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 Alessandro
Scarlatti. Cantates. Virgin VC 5451262 (1 CD 1996).
Gérard Lesne, countertenor & director, Il Seminario Musicale.
Sandrine Piau, soprano.
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Reissued in a 2-CD set with Lesne's 1994 disk of
Scarlatti Motets.
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Lesne's 1991 disk of Handel cantatas:
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Reissued as part of a 4-CD set with Lesne's Handel, Caldara &
Bononcini disks. Virgin 4 Pleasure 5622472 (2003).
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Motets. Virgin 7243 5
45103 2 8 (1 CD, 1994). Gérard Lesne, Il Seminario
Musicale. Véronique Gens, soprano.
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Alessandro Scarlatti. Lamentazioni per la
Settimana Santa. Opus 111 (1 CD, 1993).
Martin Gester, Le Parlement de Musique. There is no
overlap with Gatti's fine recording of Scarlatti
Lamentazioni.
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Reissued in 2000 on OPS 2028.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Cain overo Il Primo
Omicidio. Opus 111 OPS 30-75/76 (2 CDs 1993). Rinaldo
Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano. Gloria Banditelli, Cristina
Miatello, Claudio Cavina, Gain Paolo Fagotto, Maurizio Naddeo,
Marinella Pennicchi.
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| Alessandro & Domenico Scarlatti. Cantates et
Sonates. Lyrinx LYR CD 062 (1 CD 1986). Paulo Abel do
Nascimento, sopranist. Jean-Michel Hasler, harpsichord; Philippe
Foulon, cello. A. Scarlatti: Speranze mie, Elitropio
d'amor, Io morirei contento, Fermate omai fermate,
plus 2 cello sonatas. D. Scarlatti: Selve, caverne e monti,
Ah! Sei troppo infelice.
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| Vivaldi, Gloria RV 589 & Alessandro
Scarlatti, Dixit Dominus. DG-Archiv 423 386-2 (1 CD
1988). Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert. Nancy Argenta &
Ingrid Attrot, sopranos; Catherine Denley, contralto; Ashley
Stafford, countertenor; Stephen Varoce, bass. From the notes by
Michael Talbot: "Scarlatti composed four different settings of
the Dixit Dominus.... The present setting is the least well
known of them, surviving only in a manuscript copy at the Milan
Conservatory." Talbot believes that it was a late composition
written for Rome.
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Other Recordings
| Alessandro Scarlatti. Il Giardino d'Amore.
Accord 200 082 (1 CD 1988).
Review (in Italian). René Clemencic, Clemencic Consort.
Venere: Derek Lee Ragin, countertenor; Adone: Lina Maria
Akerlund, soprano.
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| Alessandro Scarlatti. Passio Secundum
Ioannem. dhm 1C 069-99 927 (1 LP, 1982). Reissued on GD
77111 (1 CD 1990). Fritz Näf, Die Basler Madrigalisten, Schola
Cantorem Basiliensis. Testo: René Jacobs, countertenor;
Christus: Kurt Widner, bass; Pilatus: Graham Pushee,
countertenor.
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dhm Splendeurs 82876683492 (2005).
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Reissued in 2008.
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Books
| Roberto Pagano, translated by Frederick
Hammond. Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti: Two Lives in One.
Details. Pendragon Press 2007.US
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| Donald Jay Grout. Alessandro Scarlatti: An
Introduction to His Operas. 154 pages. University of
California Press, 1979.
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| Carl Morey. The Late Operas of Alessandro
Scarlatti. Ph.D. Thesis, Indiana University 1965. 311 pages.
Possibly available from
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Alessandro
Scarlatti. Venere, Adone e Amore: Serenatas & Cantatas.
ABC Classics 476 617-0 (3 CDs, December 2007).
Details. Rosalind Halton, Chacona. Jane Edwards, soprano;
Miriam Allan, soprano; Vivien Hamilton, soprano; Tessa Miller,
soprano; James Sanderson, countertenor. The second & third CDs
are a reissue of the 2-CD set "Olimpia - Cantatas of Alessandro
Scarlatti", ABC Classics 461 687-2 (2000).
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Alessandro
Scarlatti. Il Martirio di Santa Cecilia (1708). cpo 777
258-2 (2 CDs, April 2008). Previously released on Classic Voice
TVO 046 (2003, 2000). Diego Fasolis, I Barocchisti. Cecilia:
Nancy Argenta, soprano; Nutrice: Marinella Pennicchi, soprano;
Almachin: Bernhard Landauer, countertenor; Il suo Consigliere:
Marco Beasley, tenor.
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Alessandro
Scarlatti. Magnificat / Dixit Dominus / Madrigali. Naïve
/ Opus 111 OP 30350 (1 CD, April 2007). Rinaldo Alessandrini,
Concerto Italiano. Anna Simboli, soprano; Elisabetta Tiso,
soprano; Paolo Costa, countertenor; Gianluca Ferrarini, tenor;
Sergio Foresti, bass. Polyphonic music for voices and continuo,
of which the Magnificat is the finest work. Four settings of
Dixit Dominus by Alessandro Scarlatti are known. This is
different from the one recorded by Pinnock in 1988. 5 of the 7
madrigals recorded by Rooley are on this CD.
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Alessandro
Scarlatti. Il Martirio di Sant'Orsola (Rome c.1695-1700).
Ligia Digital LiDi 0202176-07 (1 CD, January 2007).
Details. Franck-Emmanuel Comte, Le Concert de l'Hostel Dieu.
Orsola: Stéphanie Révidat, soprano; Florida: Marina Venant,
soprano; Giesù: Jean-Paul Bonnevalle, countertenor; Ereo:
François Roche, tenor; Giulio Tiranno: Benoît Arnould, bass.
This is one of the finest recordings of a Scarlatti oratorio to
date. The difficult trumpet aria for bass "Al suon delle trombe"
is skillfully performed by Philippe Genestier. No English
translations included.
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Alessandro
Scarlatti. La Giuditta. (Naples 1693). Ambronay AMY003 (1
CD, January 2006.)
NewOlde.com 2006 Best 17th Century Oratorio CD Award. Martin
Gester, Le Parlement de Musique. Giuditta: Celine Ricci,
soprano; Ozias: Adriana Fernández, soprano; Oloferne: Martín
Oro, countertenor; Achiore: Vincenzo Di Donato, tenor;
Sacerdote: Bruno Rostand, bass. Excellent recording of the
oratorio that Scarlatti considered to be his best. Clearly
superior to the earlier recording by McGegan on Hungaroton.
Scarlatti's "Cambridge" Giuditta, recorded by Velardi and
Comparone (modern instruments), is a different oratorio for
three voices.
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Alessandro
Scarlatti. Colpa, Pentimento e Grazia (1708). Harmonia
Mundi Ibérica HMI 98745/46 (2 CDs, March 2004). Live recording
by JDN
at the Ayamonte Festival, August 2003. Eduardo López Banzo,
Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla. Grazia: María Espada, soprano;
Colpa: Lola Casariego, mezzo-soprano; Pentimento: Martín Oro,
countertenor. This is an outstanding oratorio, possibly
Scarlatti's finest, and a superb performance and recording that
I highly recommend. I haven't heard the earlier recording by
Michael Schneider & La Stagione Frankfurt on Capriccio 10411/12,
but
here is a radio broadcast of a fine performance by Schneider
with Invernizzi from the 2008 Halle Handel Festival.
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Arcadia.
Decca 4702962 (US: B0001808-02) (1 CD 2003). Bendetto Marcello,
Quando penso agl'affani; Francesco Gasparini, Destati,
Lidia mia; Ecco, che alfin ritorno; Bernardo
Pasquini, Navicella, ove ten vai; Sinfonia a quattro;
Arcangelo Corelli, Concertino a 7; Alessandro Scarlatti,
Ferma omai, fugace e bella. Andreas Scholl, countertenor.
Ottavio Dantone, Accademia Bizantina. Superb recording of
previously unknown pastoral cantatas, the most elaborate of
which is by Marcello.
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Pergolesi
& Alessandro Scarlatti. Stabat Mater. Opus 111 OPS 30160
(1 CD 1999). Rinaldo Alessandrini, Concerto Italiano. Gemma
Bertagnolli, soprano; Sara Mingardo, contralto.
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Alessandro
Scarlatti. Toccate per cembalo, including variations on La
Folia. Arcana A3 (1 CD, 1992). Rinaldo Alessandrini playing
an historic Italian harpsichord.
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Alessandro
Scarlatti. Cantates. Virgin VC 5451262 (1 CD 1996).
Gérard Lesne, countertenor & director, Il Seminario Musicale.
Sandrine Piau, soprano.
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