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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

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Source BL Add 14222

2 recits and arias with particularly fine obbligato continuo line in first aria.

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This is a lovely example of the genre with two well-crafted recitatives and two lovely arias. Some challenging continuo writing as well. Eurilla is the source of consternation this time and the lives of ‘Ninfe e Pastore’ never run smooth. Stunning word-painting.

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Aria – recit – aria with very interesting harmonic treatment.>br>
Range: a’ – d”

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‘Like an errante butterfly, I seek the sun I adore…’ This is a charming short cantata in ARA format, the first a plaintive lament, the second a fiery presto (see PDF preview) railing at Cupid. <br>Source: Naples – Bibliotca del Conservatorio di Musica S. Pietro a Majella.

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Cantata Op. 1, no. 7<br>
Source: British Library copy of the 1735 edition<br>
Virtuosic cantata for alto and continuo in two recitatives and arias.
Second aria is extraordinary!<br>
Text by Metastasio

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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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