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This is a lovely example of the genre with two well-crafted recitatives and two lovely arias. Some challenging continuo writing as well. Eurilla is the source of consternation this time and the lives of ‘Ninfe e Pastore’ never run smooth. Stunning word-painting.

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add 14215 (only source)<br>
Beautifully crafted cantata in a very good and detailed copy. Tirsi is ‘dolente’ and mesto’ yet again, this time starting at the top of a mountain.
Here he feels all the pain that love for Eurilla is causing. The first aria, Lento is a perfect evocation of this emotion.<br>
Range: e flat’ – g”

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Source BL MS Add 14225

Unrequited love in a complex harmonic world! The tale of Eurilla and Fileno told from the female point of view. First aria has operatic Adagio with fermate opening, reminiscent of many opening arias for the ‘primo uomo’ in Porpora’s operas

Editor: James Sanderson

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Dated on the first page as ‘in Albano 1704’. Despite Eurilla’s promise of fidelity her erstwhile beloved is nervous (small wonder with her track history) and his heart is all ‘a-flutter’. RARA format with a particularly interesting format for the first aria Quietati.

Source: Münster Santini Sammlung Hs 3907(1)

Range: e – a”

Editor: James Sanderson

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Veiwing the painful side of love, Eurilla searches for her Armindo in the garden of Love, but can find not even a breath of him. In RARAR format with two curiously ‘twisted’ arias – affettuoso and largo and finishing with a sinuous recitative.

Source: BL Add MS 31545

Range: d – g’

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"Leave me but a moment…" to wallow in self-pity of course. The sad story of the doomed love of Eurillo and Dorinda in ARA format. An excellent chromatic largo to start and a lively tempo giusto to finish.

Source: 1721 edition in the British Library

Range: b flat to d’

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In the heat of the sun the flowers and plants wilt, as does Eurilla in her longing for Tirsi. A lovely example of the genre with a touching Adagio as the first aria and a fiery allegro as the second. In RARA format with Porpora’s tradiationally complex recitative writing and very effective melodic writing in the arias. A real delight!

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A really stunning example of the genre. In Aria – Recit – Aria and with some very lovely vocal lines, typical of Mancini at his best. It is the story of Eurillo and Clori and how the course of real love never runs smooth

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Source: BL MS Add 31618

From a selection of Leo orchestral cantatas in copy, this is a charming example of the genre. Two recit and aria format, both arias in an extremely late baroque style.

The text deals with a young man’s absence from his beloved Eurilla.

Range: d – b flat”

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