Clori is up to her usual tricks in this melodramatic cantata: "Faithless Clori rejected my love and filled my heart with mortal sorrow…" A good size (ARARA) with splendidly contrasting arias.

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source BL Add 14226 f 20r – 23v

Beautifully crafted arias with very sensible recitatives discuss an interesting excuse for infedelity. "I want to love you, but cruel jealousy makes me stray!"

Range: e’ – a”

Editor: James Sanderson

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‘Even the shades burning in Pluto’s fires do not suffer as much as I…’ Irene is being cruel again and our erstwhile lover is suffering. RARA form Canzona from a manuscript in the Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica S. Pietro a Majella – Napoli: Cantate 236(43)

Editor: James Sanderson

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