A delightful cantata in RARARA format, the final aria without da capo. Clori is, as usual, very upset. Tirsi is ignoring her pain, ignoring her love, ignoring her… And what does she do? She sings about it. in fact the final, short, arioso has her still singing, despite her tears!<br>
Source: Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica S. Pietro a Majella: Cantate 251

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‘Come, see how I have carved the name of Licori in every branch. Come read how I love a beautiful shepherdess who is as ungrateful as she is cruel.’ Nice to see the table turned once again (!) and Tirsi is busy with the bemoaning and bewailing. A stunning first Larghetto aria (with nightingales) and a fiery finish in the second aria Allegro. RARA format. <br>
Source: Biblioteca del Conservatorio di musica S. Pietro a Majella: Cantate 22 no. 28

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"A languishing soul should not hope for pity, because in you is beauty and cruelty combined." Oh, how melodramatic can you be? Wonderful, sinuous first aria and a spry allegro to finish in this RARA form cantata. Tirsi and Irene are in their usual predicament…

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A substantial work with three well-developed arias and complex recitatives. Tirsi remains as his love departs whilst questioning why she must leave and whether absence will ease her love. <br>
Source: Münster Santini Sammlung HS 861(4) <br>
Range: e – a”

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Cantata Op. 1, no. 3
Text by Metastasio in which poor Tirsi suffers the pangs of love again!
Recit – Affettuoso – Recit – Allegro (fiery)
Range: d’ – a”

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Source: BL Add 14215 (only source)<br>
Beautifully crafted cantata in a very good and detailed copy. Tirsi is ‘dolente’ and mesto’ yet again, this time starting at the top of a mountain.
Here he feels all the pain that love for Eurilla is causing. The first aria, Lento is a perfect evocation of this emotion.<br>
Range: e flat’ – g”

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Principal source BL MS Add 14229<br>
extremely chromatic 2 recit and aria format (beneath the shade of a beech tree)
Subject: Tirsi and Clori and the vicissitudes of love

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As May is born and Summer begins everyone except Tirsi is feeling the ‘swelling of love’. The shepherdess in love with Tirsi is obviously not happy about this. The two arias encompass very different moods, the first, a happy allegro is bright and hopeful, the latter a slow, non da capo larghetto places the blame for unrequited love fairly on the shoulders of Amor.

Source: Münster Santini Hs 3313 (Nr. 18)
Range: d – g’

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Source: BL Add 14214 ff 170v – 177v (only source)

In recit – aria – recit – aria form with some interesting recitative-like passages in the b section of the second aria. As usual the setting of the recitatives is particularly clearly defined. The text is in the first person, a shepherdess railing against the unfaithful Tirsi.<br>
Range: b – a”

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Source: BL Add MS 14210

The sad tale of the death of Tirsi and Fille’s desire to die as well – after the aria of course! 2 recit and aria format, the last being virtuosic again.<br>
Range: d – g”

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