Deborah Cachet, Nicolas Achten & Scherzi Musicali – Scarlatti: O penosa lontananza – Cantate da Camera (2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:10:59 minutes | 1,39 GB | Genre: Classical
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In this new recording, Scherzi Musicali explores the fascinating world of Alessandro Scarlatti’s Arcadian cantatas: the six mostly unpublished cantatas selected here sublimate the affects of nymphs and shepherds far from their beloved. Both the arias and the recitatives are exceptionally beautiful, varied and colourful: the accomplished theatrical sense of these cantatas has stimulated the soprano Deborah Cachet, the baritone Nicolas Achten and the abundant instrumental forces that provide a setting for their voices to a passionate and captivating realisation, in which poetry, rhetoric, inventive ornamentation and opulence of sound reign supreme.
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