The Spring fills the heart of animals, birds and plants with Love, even that of our singer with his love for Fille. But, of course, Fille does not return this love and leaves him broken-hearted…the classic rejection cantata. Our erstwhile lover then warns that the Winter of old age will rob her of her Spring-like beauty and she will regret ‘Yes, yes!’ having spurned his love. In RARA format, the arias are particularly beautiful and the recitatives wander through some bizarre tonal language. <br>Source: Naples – Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Music S Pietro a Majella.

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add 14214 ff 107v – 114v (only source)<br>
On the flowery banks of the bubbling brook sits the vague Colinette enjoying the theatre of flowers and herbs in a text possibly by Metastasio. She does a lot of sighing and causes drooping (!). Two recit and aria form with an extraordinary first aria full of 32nd notes and a fiery last aria.<br>
Range: c’ – d”<br>
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The dawn rises and makes the fields golden and the flowers happy…the birds sing and all is right with the world! This is a lovel ARA format cantata from a copy in the Naples Conservatorio library. A beautiful Andante or Affettuoso begins it and the final aria is a fast and often virtuosic Allegro. The two arias separated by a typically complex Porpora recitative.

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A cantata all about beautiful dark eyes, asking Cupid to make sure the intended remains faithful and loving.

The source for this edition is a copy in Münster Santini Sammlung Hs 3977(14) which contains mainly cantatas by Scarlatti together with examples by Francesco Mancini, Carlo Cesarini, Giovanni Bononcini, Pietro Bencini and Filippo Colenelli.

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Source: Santini Collection, 3901 Diözesan Bibliothek, Münster

La Primavera depicts a scene in which two girls await the return of their lovers, Tirsi and Fileno. Spring, the melting of ice, and the return of flowers, happiness and love are the subject of the girls’ conversation.

Vocal Ranges<br>
Clori: d’- g’’<br>
Lidia: d’- g’’

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One of Scarlatti’s masterpieces for soprano with violins. This solo Serenata, introduced by its Corellian Sinfonia, traces the journey of a lover who aims to steal a glimpse of the sleeping beloved. The image of love as a flower pushing through the icy ground, with shivering violin figures, leads to the final sublime aria and unaccompanied farewell of the lover.

Range: d’- a”’

Aria 3, violins marked ‘soli’ in one source.

Editor: Rosalind Halton

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Our hero heads to the woods to escape the pains of love. Comparing his beloved to the birds, the flowers (and the beasts!). In RARA format this is a delightful and highly enjoyable cantata to sing – some really good challenges in the coloratura. Source: Naples

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The three soprano cantate da camera from the 1721 edition ‘Cantate e Duetti dedicati alla Sacra Maestà di Giorgio Rè della Gran Bretagna’

Da te che pasci ogn’ora
Dolente e mesta
O frondoso arboscello

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source BL MS Add 14229

lovely pastoral image of a flower languishing on the banks of a river (and of course the shepherd lover)

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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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