Josetxu Obregón, La Ritirata - Alessandro Scarlatti: Quella pace gradita: The recorder and violin cantatas (2019)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 345 Mb | Total time: 66:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | GCD 923107 | Recorded: 2018
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 345 Mb | Total time: 66:01 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Glossa | GCD 923107 | Recorded: 2018
In a new recording of music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Josetxu Obregóns 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.