Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita - The Recorder & Violin Sonatas
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.GCD923107

By Alicia Amo, Filippo Mineccia, Giuseppeina Bridelli, Josetxu Obregon, and La Ritirata. By Alessandro Scarlatti. Classical. Listening CD. Glossa Music #GCD923107. Published by Glossa Music (NX.GCD923107).

In a new recording of music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Josetxu Obregon's La Ritirata parades its dazzling vocal and instrumental talents in presenting the four cantatas which involve recorders and violins, together with an additional standalone soprano aria, for a further Glossa Neapolitan-flavored release. Drawn from his well over 800 secular cantatas these works combine fully-integrated, imaginative recitatives, expressive and dramatic arias and colorful and exacting instrumental sinfonias and ritornelli into elegant and compact wholes, and featuring poetic texts which typically followed the aspirations of the Accademia degli Arcadi literary circle initiated in Rome around the turn of the eighteenth century. The scene for Scarlatti's prolific creativity is set by Stefano Russomanno in his booklet essay. The vocal duties are assigned to three leading interpreters of today, mezzo Giuseppina Bridelli, countertenor Filippo Mineccia and soprano Alicia Amo. Rising here to the instrumental challenges set by Scarlatti are long-standing members of La Ritirata, Tamar Lalo (recorder) and Hiro Kurosaki (violin), who are joined on their respective instruments by Michael Form and Pablo Prieto. With cellist Obregon, Lalo and Kurosaki had been the leading soloists for La Ritirata's recent Neapolitan Concertos for various instruments release.

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