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Emma Kirkby, Daniel Taylor, Theatre of Early Music - Alessandro Scarlatti: Stabat Mater (2005)

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Emma Kirkby, Daniel Taylor, Theatre of Early Music - Alessandro Scarlatti: Stabat Mater (2005)

Emma Kirkby, Daniel Taylor, Theatre of Early Music - Alessandro Scarlatti: Stabat Mater (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 203 Mb | Total time: 51:00 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Atma | ACD22237 | Recorded: 2003

Alessandro Scarlatti's celebrated Stabat mater was commissioned by a confraternity of aristocrats, the Cavalieri della Vergine dei Dolori, for its annual Lenten service at the Franciscan church of San Luigi in Naples. It remained in use until the confraternity commissioned Pergolesi to compose his famous setting to supplant Scarlatti's old-fashioned music. Both Pergolesi and Scarlatti composed for limited resources, each using two solo voices, two violins and basso continuo. Scarlatti's setting is by no means inferior to Pergolesi's but remains much less familiar, despite several excellent recordings.

Francesco Tasini - Alessandro Scarlatti: Opera omnia per tastiera, Vol. V (2016)

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Francesco Tasini - Alessandro Scarlatti: Opera omnia per tastiera, Vol. V (2016)

Francesco Tasini - Alessandro Scarlatti: Opera omnia per tastiera, Vol. V (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 331 Mb | Total time: 75:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Tactus | TC661915 | Recorded: 2014

The fifth volume of the Alessandro Scarlatti complete works for keyboard series. On this new release we enjoy the small Carlo Serassi op.442 organ (“Organino”) of 1836, today located in the basilica of S. Maria di Campagna, in Piacenza, after being placed in 1859 in the Municipal Theatre in the same city. This unique instrument, originally “Organo da Sala in Casa Serassi”, is perfectly suited to the Toccatas, Sonatas and Follias from the great master from Palermo.

David Rowland, Christ College Choir, Cambridge - A. Scarlatti: Missa breve & Six Motets; D. Scarlatti: Stabat Mater (2009)

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David Rowland, Christ College Choir, Cambridge - A. Scarlatti: Missa breve & Six Motets; D. Scarlatti: Stabat Mater (2009)

David Rowland, Christ College Choir, Cambridge - Alessandro Scarlatti: Missa breve & Six Motets; Domenico Scarlatti: Stabat Mater (2009)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 288 Mb | Total time: 59:33 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Regent Records | # REGCD283 | Recorded: 2008

The program is a strong point straight off here; the Alessandro Scarlatti Missa Breve and the Stabat Mater by his son Domenico are both rich, fascinating works that progressively deconstruct the model of making music around two (or more) separate choirs, a century old by the time the Scarlattis took it up. The Stabat Mater is a really lovely work, but it's been hampered in the repertory but uncertainty over performance practice; it's not clear how many singers should be used, or how they should be deployed in solos and massed groups (if any). It is not really a double-choir work at all but a mass in 10 parts, with those subdivided into various groupings including five plus five.

Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)

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Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)

Hana Blažíková, Bruce Dickey - Breathtaking: A cornetto and a voice entwined (2016)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 343 Mb | Total time: 76:41 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Passacaille | # PAS1020 | Recorded: 2015

In 2014, Bruce began a project together with Czech soprano Hana Blažíková to explore the affinity of the cornetto and the human voice. The project was called Breathtaking: A Cornetto and a Voice Entwined. With the program that evolved from that project, Bruce and Hana recorded a CD for the Passacaille label and toured the world performing the program more than forty times in North America, Europe and Australia. In order to make the touring financially viable, they have paired with backup ensembles in Europe, the USA and Australia.

Alexander Weimann - Alessandro Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works, Vol.2 (2010)

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Alexander Weimann - Alessandro Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works, Vol.2 (2010)

Alexander Weimann - Alessandro Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works, Vol.2 (2010)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 421 Mb | Total time: 49:52+49:33 | Covers included
Classical | Label: ATMA Classique | # ACD2 2528 | Recorded: 2010

To celebrate the 350 anniversary of the birth of Alessandro Scarlatti, Alexander Weimann continues his project of recording the complete keyboard works of this great Italian baroque composer. This oeuvre comprises some 30 toccatas and variations, the scores of which are conserved in the collections of European and American libraries. Some of these works have never been recorded before.

Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Duetti (2011)

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Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Duetti (2011)

Philippe Jaroussky, Max Emanuel Cencic, William Christie, Les Arts Florissants - Duetti: Bononcini, Mancini, Conti, Porpora, Marcello, Scarlatti (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 382 Mb | Total time: 74:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Virgin Classics | # 5099907094323 | Recorded: 2011

This album of Baroque cantatas and chamber duets grew out of a 2007 performance of Stefano Landi's 1631 opera Il Sant'Alessio starring Philippe Jaroussky and Max Emanuel Cencic (among the eight countertenors in the cast) with William Christie conducting Les Arts Florissants. Christie was so impressed with the blend of Jaroussky and Cencic's voices that he brought them together to explore the vast and rarely performed repertoire of late 17th and early 18th century Italian duets for equal voices.

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Italian Concerti Grossi (1991)

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Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Italian Concerti Grossi (1991)

Jeanne Lamon, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra - Italian Concerti Grossi: Locatelli, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Geminiani, Torelli (1991)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 275 Mb | Total time: 58:43 | Scans included
Classical | Label: CBC Records | # SMCD5099 | Recorded: 1991

Tafelmusik, Canada's orchestra on period instruments, was founded in 1979. Since the arrival of its Music Director and concertmaster Jeanne Lamon in 1981, Tafelmusik has achieved international recognition for its concerts and recordings. The ensemble has eighteen core members and is expanded as the need arises. All members of the orchestra are specialists in historical performance practice and perform on original instruments or modern replicas faithful in design and construction to the originals.

Alexander Weimann - Alessandro Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works, Vol.1 (2005)

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Alexander Weimann - Alessandro Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works, Vol.1 (2005)

Alexander Weimann - Alessandro Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Works, Vol.1 (2005)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 450 Mb | Total time: 69:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: ATMA Classique | # ACD22321 | Recorded: 2005

Right now the music of Alessandro Scarlatti is getting more attention than ever before, but musicians are still very selective in what they are performing. One part of Scarlatti's oeuvre that is widely neglected is his keyboard music. Alexander Weimann is not the first to pay attention to this genre: the Italian keyboard player and director of the Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini, devoted a disc to the genre. But Weimann is the first to plan to record it all. He writes in the booklet, "as a composer for the keyboard, Alessandro Scarlatti … deserves the same respect that we show for his vocal works."

Christian Mendoze, Musica Antiqua Toulon - Alessandro Scarlatti: Sinfonie di concerto grosso; Concerti per flauto dolce (1995)

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Christian Mendoze, Musica Antiqua Toulon - Alessandro Scarlatti: Sinfonie di concerto grosso; Concerti per flauto dolce (1995)

Christian Mendoze, Musica Antiqua Toulon - Alessandro Scarlatti: Sinfonie di concerto grosso; Concerti per flauto dolce (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 266 Mb | Total time: 53:37 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pierre Verany | # PV795031 | Recorded: 1994

The Ensemble Musica Antiqua is dedicated to performances of Renaissance and Baroque music on historical instruments. Christian Mendoze has performed with the most important early music specialists. He is a renowned recorder virtuoso and artistic director of the «Saison de Musique» at Convent Royal in Saint-Maximin.

Jacqueline Nicolas, Alain Aubin - Alessandro Scarlatti: Diana & Endimione, Ero & Leandro, Correa nel sen amato (1990)

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Jacqueline Nicolas, Alain Aubin - Alessandro Scarlatti: Diana & Endimione, Ero & Leandro, Correa nel sen amato (1990)

Jacqueline Nicolas, Alain Aubin - Alessandro Scarlatti: Diana & Endimione, Ero & Leandro, Correa nel sen amato (1990)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 267 Mb | Total time: 68:18 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Pierre Verany | # PV790013 | Recorded: 1989

The works presented on this dise are by the young Scarlatti, freshly appointed master of thé Chapel Royal in Naples (1684). Despite an occasional use of the da capo, the form is extremely free, more often obeying theatrical instinct than more musical convention. With the présence of ritornelli and with its declamatory recitatives reminiscent of Monteverdi and Legrenzi, the writing testifies to an evident relationship with the Venetian style. The mostly monosyllabic arias occasionally give way to vocalises not in any spirit of virtuosity, but in order to develop an expressive idea. The words here take centre stage ; the broad and dramatic melodie lines call to mind the reforms of Gluck as well as Italian verismo. Apparent here are signs ofan inspirational vein which reappears throughout musical history, complying with a cycle which oscillates between the stylish and the genuine.

Jane Chapman - The Lady's Banquet, Vol. 1: Aires From the Opera Curiously Set (1995)

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Jane Chapman - The Lady's Banquet, Vol. 1: Aires From the Opera Curiously Set (1995)

Jane Chapman - The Lady's Banquet, Vol. 1: Aires From the Opera Curiously Set (1995)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 491 Mb | Total time: 74:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Collins Classics | # 14562 | Recorded: 1995

A curious appendix in a couple of the Handel Gesellschaft volumes offers ornamental harpsichord arrangements by William Babell of airs from Handel operas. He in fact published a large number of versions of extracts from popular operas of the time, and these gained wide circulation both in this country and abroad in collections aimed at genteel young ladies (for whom a modest competence at the keyboard was a social asset). The transcriptions from Handel's Rinaldo (1711) are so elaborately smothered in brilliant scales, arpeggios and other embellishments that Hawkins averred that ''few could play the lessons but himself'', and Burney acidly commented that Babell ''acquired great celebrity without the assistance of taste''; but the versions of works by other composers that had been produced in London in 1709 and 1710 are much less ornate and were clearly designed for players of modest attainments.

Nicolas Achten, Scherzi Musicali, Deborah Cachet - Alessandro Scarlatti: O penosa lontananza (2018)

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Nicolas Achten, Scherzi Musicali, Deborah Cachet  - Alessandro Scarlatti: O penosa lontananza (2018)

Nicolas Achten, Scherzi Musicali, Deborah Cachet - Alessandro Scarlatti: O penosa lontananza (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 380 Mb | Total time: 70:59 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Ricercars | # RIC 396 | Recorded: 2018

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 colorful: 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 realization, in which poetry, rhetoric, inventive ornamentation and opulence of sound reign supreme.

Fabio Bonizzoni, La Risonanza - Alessandro Scarlatti: Serenate a Filli (2011)

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Fabio Bonizzoni, La Risonanza - Alessandro Scarlatti: Serenate a Filli (2011)

Fabio Bonizzoni, La Risonanza - Alessandro Scarlatti: Serenate a Filli (2011)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 321 Mb | Total time: 63:40 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 921511 | Recorded: 2010

By the time that Alessandro Scarlatti was writing the two serenatas recorded here by Fabio Bonizzoni and La Risonanza and inaugurating an exciting new series on Glossa, that celebratory cantata form, often employing allegorical characters, had been in existence for a mere half century. Scarlatti, as Bonizzoni says, “was one of the main sources of inspiration for Handel whilst the latter was in Italy, and this creates a real continuity with what we have been doing in the recent past”; notably the much-admired septet of recordings devoted to the Saxon composers Italian chamber cantatas.

Filippo Mineccia, Javier Ulises Illan, Nereydas - Siface: L’amor castrato (2018)

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Filippo Mineccia, Javier Ulises Illan,  Nereydas - Siface: L’amor castrato (2018)

Filippo Mineccia, Javier Ulises Illán, Nereydas - Siface: L’amor castrato (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 347 Mb | Total time: 69:02 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | # GCD 923514 | Recorded: 2017

With Siface: l’amor castrato, countertenor Filippo Mineccia, together with Javier Ulises Illán and Nereydas, presents a short imaginary pasticcio opera reflecting the music-making and life of the contralto castrato known by that stage name. Born Giovanni Francesco Grossi in 1653 in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany, Siface was acclaimed for his exciting musical performances, yet who became famous also for the tragedy of his love life. He was called upon to sing in operas and oratorios by the likes of Stradella, Pasquini, Bassani, Pallavicino and Agostini. For a long time in the service of Francesco II d’Este in Modena, Siface was an active member of the musical “ducal circuit” in the Italian peninsula, even, on one occasion, additionally being sent to England, where he performed before monarchy, and met and impressed Henry Purcell.

Paul McCreesh, Trevor Pinnock, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The English Concert & Choir - Christmas in Rome (2007)

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Paul McCreesh, Trevor Pinnock, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The English Concert & Choir - Christmas in Rome (2007)

Paul McCreesh, Trevor Pinnock, Gabrieli Consort & Players, The English Concert & Choir - Christmas in Rome (2007)
NTSC 4:3 (720x480) | Latin (LinearPCM, 2 ch) | (DTS, 6 ch) | 102 min | 6,54 Gb (DVD9)
Classical | Label: Deutsche Grammophon | Sub: Latin, English, Deutsch, Francais, Espanol, Chinese | Recorded: 1992

This package, released on Archiv Laserdisc and VHS in December 1993, was recorded a year earlier at Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome in cooperation with a consortium of European television broadcasters. It consists of two distinct but complementary programs, the first under McCreesh followed by another under Pinnock. As the notes point out, the basilica is the perfect site for such a program, since it has claimed to possess the very crib in which the infant lay on the first Christmas. For centuries the papal celebration of the Midnight Mass of Christmas was held “ad praesepe,” at the altar where the crib was venerated. Typically for such concert videos, we see appropriate scenes in the basilica alternating with views of the singers and players.