Porpora: Fra le più folte piante

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Forces: soprano & continuo

Source: BL Add MS 14210

In one of Porpora’s more dramatically contrasting cantatas, the young lover is exhorted to deal with his rage by railing at the heavens, giving rise to a wonderful aria ‘Contro me il Ciel spietato’. We find out it’s a girl again in the next recitative and the cantata finishes with the young man promising to die for his love.

Range: e – a”

Editor: James Sanderson