Alessandro Scarlatti os one of the key figures of the baroque era, he was more prolifiq than his son Domenico, even though less known. His renown comes from his vast output of vocal music, wich most of it is chamber vocal music or cantatas. In the period Scarlatti lived, the cantata was probably the most popular form of music between the intellectual society, and the most wanted were those composed for a castrato.
One of the facts that rends this music so charming itself, is beacause cantatas were intended for a minimal audience and with a minimal instrumental accompaniment that allow the composer to play with the voice more freely than if it was an opera, because the singer do not have to sing loud and do not have to use remarked vibrato as in opera.
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Merci beaucoup !
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