Source: MS in the collection of the Royal College of Music, London

Aria – recit – aria format with interesting major/minor juxtapositions in the last. It’s the tale of another long-suffering lover willing to do anything for his beloved.

Range: b – a”

Editor: Kate Eckersley & James Sanderson

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Delightful duo cantata by Domenico Scarlatti. Duet – recitative – duet form.
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Source: MS in the collection of the Royal College of Music, London

Aria – recit – aria format, the last aria in two exciting and virtuosic parts in different time signatures. Here the text involves a rejected, though constant lover asking for the pity of his beloved.

Range: d – g’

Editor: Kate Eckersley & James Sanderson

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Source: MS in the Royal Music Collection now housed in the British Library.

Well, this girl is very open-minded, allowing Tirsi to love whomever he wishes (Nice, Clori, Egeria, Fille) because: The flighty bee is not content to long for the beautiful rose. If it can show itself a lover to other flowers, it wants to fly into the midst of them all…

Range: c’ – a”

Editor: Kate Eckersley & James Sanderson

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Source: MS in the Royal Music Collection now housed in the British Library.

A fiery piece full of recrimination and anger, then self-pity and despair – a little like life really!! “Written in blood, my betrayed heart sends these tormented words to you…think how much I have loved you, know that you are not mine, and weep for the pity of my plight”

Two recit and aria format, the last aria, similar to the Mancini setting of the same text, alternates fast and slow

Range: d – g’

Editor: Kate Eckersley & James Sanderson

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Source: MS in the collection of the Royal College of Music, London

Duet – recit – aria – recit – aria – recit – duet all of which deal with the theme of love once lost and regained. The story of Clori and Fileno and their adoration for each other – how beauty can charm and defeat love simultaneously.

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Weep, eyes weep… What a cheery subject! Love’s passion at it’s saddest in this virtuosic cantata by Domenico Scarlatti: ‘…I am in love, and my beloved scorns my pain; she has no feeling of pity…’

Source: MS in the Royal Music Collection at the British Library

Range: c – a”

Editor: Kate Eckersley & James Sanderson

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Domenico Scarlatti’s extraordinary setting of Metastasio’s cantata. The format is two-part instrumental introduction, aria, recit, aria with typically virtuosic writing for both violins and voice. The subject is mourning for lost Fille – lost to rival Fileno. Summed up well in the final line: If for for a moment of dreaming I am happy, my torment increases with the coming day.

Range: c – a”

Editor: Kate Eckersley & James Sanderson

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In receipt of a ‘Dear Jane’ letter our protagonist questions everything about it: "…What do you mean by your words ‘I am not’…" She maintains her control until the middle section of the last aria where presto e risoluto she loses it completely. RARA format with some stunning vocal writing.

Source: MS in the British Library

Range: c# – a”

Editor: Kate Eckersley & James Sanderson

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Source: MS in the collection of the Royal College of Music, London.

Once again a young man sacrifices his personal happiness on the altar of unrequited love for Nice. In double recit-aria format, the spectacular second aria showing strong Spanish influence.

Range: c – g’

Editor: Kate Eckersley & James Sanderson

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