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Special offer. Alessandro Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita

The Recorder & Violin Cantatas

Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano), Alicia Amo (soprano), Filippo Mineccia (counter-tenor)

Josetxu Obregón

The performances are excellent, though the disc is hampered by the decision to insert longish pauses between sinfonias, recitatives and arias that impedes each cantata’s dramatic flow. Obregon...

Special offer. Alessandro Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita

The Recorder & Violin Cantatas

Giuseppina Bridelli (mezzo-soprano), Alicia Amo (soprano), Filippo Mineccia (counter-tenor)

Josetxu Obregón

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The performances are excellent, though the disc is hampered by the decision to insert longish pauses between sinfonias, recitatives and arias that impedes each cantata’s dramatic flow. Obregon...

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In a new recording of music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Josetxu Obregón’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-flavoured release.

Drawn from his well over 800 secular cantatas, these works combine fully-integrated, imaginative recitatives, expressive and dramatic arias and colourful and exacting instrumental sinfonias and ritornelli into elegant and compact wholes, 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 Obregón, Lalo and Kurosaki had been the leading soloists for La Ritirata’s recent Neapolitan Concertos for Various Instruments release.

Contents and tracklist

No. 1, Sinfonia
Track length2:21
No. 2, E perché non seguite o pastorelle
Track length1:13
No. 3, Fiumicel, tu lento
Track length3:14
No. 4, Ma di che mi querelo
Track length0:58
No. 5, È dolce quella piaga
Track length2:12
No. 6, Su le fiorite sponde
Track length0:58
No. 7, Lacci, e piaghe
Track length1:36
No. 1, Sinfonia
Track length2:06
No. 2, Filen, mio caro bene
Track length1:31
No. 3, Chiedi pur ai monti
Track length6:44
No. 4, Ma se prova bastante
Track length1:00
No. 5, Che ti sembra, son fedele
Track length3:26
No. 1, Sinfonia
Track length4:32
No. 2, Quella pace gradita
Track length1:11
No. 3, Crudel tiranno amore
Track length5:27
No. 4, O voi selve beate
Track length0:56
No. 5, Care selve soggiorni di quiete
Track length2:34
No. 6, Lungi, lungi da me tiranno amore
Track length1:14
No. 7, Teco o mesta tortorella
Track length3:43
No. 1, Sinfonia
Track length3:10
No. 2, Tu sei quella, che al nome sembre giusta
Track length1:04
No. 3, Dal nome tuo credei
Track length3:49
No. 4, Fedeltade ne pur ottien ricetto
Track length1:32
No. 5, Il nome non vanta di santa colei
Track length3:59

Awards and reviews

August 2019

The performances are excellent, though the disc is hampered by the decision to insert longish pauses between sinfonias, recitatives and arias that impedes each cantata’s dramatic flow. Obregon directs from the cello, and his players are keenly responsive…The singers are strong, too.

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