D Scarlatti - Cantate da Camera (Lettere Amorose) | Tactus TC681902

D Scarlatti - Cantate da Camera (Lettere Amorose)

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Label: Tactus

Cat No: TC681902

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 5th October 2009

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About

During his lifetime, from his Neapolitan years to his Spanish sojourn, Domenico Scarlatti cultivated the “cantata” genre, composing around sixty works at least - excluding those of uncertain attribution and his Serenades.

Since in those years the cantata was a genre on the wane, this high number is revealing of Scarlatti’s uninterrupted link with the baroque tradition, an age in which the cantata had reached its climax as an extremely refined genre, the place for daring experimentation and exquisite writing, the appropriate gym for high craftsmanship, as expected by the elitist audience for which it was intended.

The manuscripts date from 1699 to 1724.

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