Source: BL MS Add 31618

From a selection of Leo orchestral cantatas in copy, this is a charming example of the genre. Two recit and aria format, both arias in an extremely late baroque style.

The text deals with a young man’s absence from his beloved Eurilla.

Range: d – b flat”

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add 31618

Searching from field to plain the lover cannot find his beloved Clori and his sadness is killing him – the melodrama! Aah…

In aria – recit – aria format, the first a beautiful Larghetto the last a gracious Allegretto.

Range: e – a”

Editor: James Sanderson

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A collection of three settings of the ‘Sotto l’ombre d’un faggio’ text, by Mancini, Leo and Porpora. 2 continuo cantatas and one with violins. See the individual cantatas for previews etc.

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‘If’ is, of course, the important word in this cantata. "If I belived in a faithful heart…" A discussion of the pain caused by loving too much. ARA format, both arias excellent and sinuous.

Source: Münster Santini Sammlung Hs 2358(3)

Range: d# – a”

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add MS 14210 ff 35v – 41v

The young man, perhaps unlucky and unhappy Tirsi, finds himself once more beneath the shade of a beech tree lamenting the cruelty of his beloved Dorinda. 2 recit and aria form with some stylish vocal passage work in both arias.

Range: d# – g#”

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source BL Add 31618 – a manuscript conatining a number of orchestral cantatas by Leo in copies of varying quality.

The format is sinfonia – recit – aria – recit – aria and the general feel is that peculiar pre-classical sound with repeated bass notes and many pedals. A charming cantata in which the lover compare’s the beloved’s absence to the shadows of night. Very romantic!

Range: Bb – g’

Editor: James Sanderson

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With a sorrowful image of the shepherdess weeping near the fountain, hand on heart, the erstwhile lover claims that if she were with him she would have no cause to complain! ARA format, both arias wonderfully plaintive.

Source: Münster Santini Sammlung Hs 2358

Range: d – a”

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL Add MS 14210 ff 2r – 9v

A gentle and loving story of a man abandoned in the woods (amongst flowers and verdant fields, of course) by his beloved Eurilla. Still he loves her – your blond hair, your white hands, your faithfulness(!). 2 recits (both quite large and complicated) and 2 arias (moderato and allegro with a slower(?) reflective middle section in triple time).

Range: d – g”

Editor: James Sanderson

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As the nightingale sings of the pains of love, Filli’s lover swears his devotion to her and begs her to ignore all the lies and jealousies that plague young love. ARA format, the first a complex and virtuosic larghetto, e cantabile, the last marked non presto

Source: Münster Santini Sammlung Hs 2358

Range: e – a”

Editor: James Sanderson

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Source: BL MS Add 14210 ff 10r – 17r

In classic two recit and aria format with some wicked chromatic shifts in the recits, the lover bemoans the cruelty of Fate which has parted him from his beloved.

Range: c – g’

Editor: James Sanderson

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