Clori is at it again, making her lover burn and sigh. She’s a cruel one! RARA format with both arias having very distinct characters, doves, sailors, everything is here.

Source: Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica S. Pietro a Majella – Napoli; Segnatura: Cantate 20

Editor: James Sanderson

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A charming pastoral cantata with the singer likening his sheep running after water to the lover searching for his beloved. Two delightful arias surround a chromatic recitative. Throughout the piece there are many cromatic twists and turns. <br>
Range: c – g’

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add 14214 ff139v – 145v (only source)<br>
Slightly careless copy of a cantata with some tremendous invention. Aria – recit – aria form, the text deals with a lovely simile of a boat on rough seas longing for the shore being like the treacherous waters of love.<br>
Range: a – d’

Editor: James Sanderson

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To be separated from the beloved is a fate worse than death. In ARA format, the first aria a ‘pathetic’ largo and the last, portraying the sailor on rough seas, a wonderful allegro

Source: Münster Santini HS 3313 (11) <br>
Range: e – g’

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add 29484/Autograph in BL

Alto (first?) version of the cantata where the river likens his love of the sea to Nice.

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: Paris Bibliothèque Nationale, MS D.11840

The capricious Mitilde has more moods than the sea has storms, and Scarlatti depicts her in a fiery cantata with exciting demands for singer, cellist and keyboard player.

Range – e’ g”.

2 Recits and arias: 1. Spiritoso, D minor; 2. Alla breve, A major

Editor: Rosalind Halton

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Source: BL Add MS 64960

Formerly owned by Maria Ducarel, recorded (f. ii verso) as a gift to her from George Henry Lee, 3rd Earl of Lichfield, in 1768. This charming cantata uses the water flowing into the sea simile to describe longing for the beloved. In aria (Larghetto) – recit – aria (Allegro) format.

Range: b – e’

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add 14214 ff 78v – 85v (only source)

In aria-recit-aria form, both arias without tempo indication, but probably a tempo giusto and lento or affettuoso. As usual, the recitative is beautifully crafted, accurately reflecting the rhythm of the language.
The text concerns love as an allegory of the life of a sailor on rough seas.

Range: d – a” flat

Editor: James Sanderson

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Tigers love, lions burn with love, the seas love the mountains and rivers, the woods love the forests, why doesn’t this girl love him? In RARA format (andante & allegro).

Source: Münster Santini Sammlung Hs 2461

Range: G – b’

Editor: James Sanderson

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Using the old ‘ship into harbour’ story our young man tries to woo Lidia, but she’s having none of it! "…Too cruel, too unfaithful…" he cries, but to what avail? In RARA format with two very ‘spiky’ arias, lots of chromatic twists in both arias and recitatives.Source: Müs Santini Sammlung HS859(14)

Range: c – g’

Editor: James Sanderson

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