Hasse’s setting of Pietro Metastasio’s Cantata V: Il Nome, a hugely popular cantata text which deals with the lovers Clori and Filomena. Here, using the unusual combination of flute and alto voice in ARA format.

Source: copy in Münster Santini Sammlung HS 1940.

Range: b – g’

Editor: James Sanderson

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Dated London, 1751 this cantata can be performed with either violins or flutes/recorders – it is unclear from the source as to which instrument was preferred (althoug if pushed I would probably lean towards flutes/recorders because of the instrumental writing in the first aria – Amoroso).
The subject is a rather coy lady, probably in love with the Fileno to whom she speaks, but who knows?

Range: c’ – f”

Editor: Kate Eckersley & James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add MS 14213 ff 49v – 55v

This was a very popular work at the time of its writing. There are no fewer than 7 copies extant, 3 of which are in the UK. The cantata starts with an aria with ‘Si suonar se piace’ over contrary motion figures in the continuo/upper part. Reminiscent in some ways of Orgoglioso fiumicello. The final section is a recit-cum-arioso apologising for any interruption! Very singable, very enjoyable…

Range: b – e’

Editor: James Sanderson

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Charming cantata, widely circulated with two recits and arias, both arias and second recit include flute.

Research: Kate Eckersley

Sources: Royal College of Music MSS 695 and Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica S. Pietro a Majella Cantate 157

Editor: James Sanderson

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To go through many pains to acheive true love seems to be the moral of many of the Pastoral cantata texts and this beautiful example is no exception. In ARA format, the first aria in 2/4 then 3/8, the last a lovely allegro moderato

Source: MSS in Münster and the British Library

Range: c – e’

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source BL MS Add. 14229

A very interesting cantata with obbligato keyboard accompaniment in first aria. Large range from c – b flat” Text by Metastasio and from the number of copies extant this must have been a popular piece!

Editor: James Sanderson

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O peace of my heart, where do you wander?

A beautiful RARA format cantata with roccoco harmony, delightful vocal lines and a real charm.

Range: c – f’

Editor: James Sanderson

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A classic lontananza cantata with great pathos. RARA format and filled with plangent melody and extraordinary harmonic shifts in the recitatives. Mirzia is our heroine and her erstwhile lover is forced to be separated from her. Oh, the anguish!!

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add MS 14213 ff 28r – 36v

Edited from an extremely clear copy in a lower key than usual (starts E major), this very popular cantata of the time (1732) exists in at least 8 copies world-wide. With a charming Sì suonar se piace opening with triplets against duplets, the cantata is in aria – recit – aria format. In the Metastasian text, it appears Clori has strayed, but her lover waits for her, knowing that the stream must return to the sea.

Range: b – g’

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add 14213 ff 37v – 48v (only source)

This a charming cantata with an opening ritornello vaguely reminiscent of the Vivaldi Gloria. Three movements: aria (larghetto e staccato), recitative and aria (allegretto)

The theme is Arcadian, this time the shepherd(ess) compares him/herself to the dove and the way it behaves when separated from it’s love.

Range: a – e’

Editor: James Sanderson

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