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.
Oh, Lidio is being difficult again and causing heartache. His loving lady wishes rather for death than his absence. Finally, in the last aria, he reappears and is likened to the sun at the break of day banishing sadness. Awww… <br>
Double recit-aria format. <br>
Range: d – a” flat

Editor: James Sanderson

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Imminent departure, instant pain! "Daliso my beloved, pain of my heart, sweet agony…". This is a large (RARARA) cantata dated 1st of August 1710 in a particularly clear copy. Real variety in recits and especially in the arias.

Editor: James Sanderson

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O peace of my heart, where do you wander? So begins this delightful cantata, one of Alessandro Scarlatti’s most frequently copied. The principal source of this edition is held in the Royal College of London, Ms. 583, a copy in a Neapolitan hand. ARAR format.

Editor: Rosalind Halton

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Sources: 7 MS sources, as described in the notes, dated 1699 in one source (Bodleian Library, Oxford).

Subject: the illusion of love being present, though far away. This is one of the most profound and passionate settings by Scarlatti on the theme of distance and separation, from its opening interval – a minor 9th – to the wild despairing modulations within the final Siciliano aria.

Featured on chacona’s recording ‘Olimpia: cantatas of Alessandro Scarlatti’.

Vocal range: d’-g”

Editor: Rosalind Halton

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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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