Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725) is condered one of the greatest composers of the baroque period. Hi is best known for his chamber music output, his more than 700 cantatas confirms it, but his operas were also numerous and important, so that, A. Scarlatti is conseidered the founder of the Napolitan opera school.
His style is unique and plenty of quirks with keen modulations and contrasts in his openings, as can be noticed in this recording. Also one thing that is remarcable is that the arias present in the cantatas here performed, are da capo arias-that is, in the orden A-B-A in wich a first idea is displayed and elaborated at the begining and at the end with a contrasting part (B) in the middle, most of the time as an adagio-, so, is a clue of Scarlatti's abandonement of his early compositional preference in which his arias showed no repetitions at all.
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