Release Date: 01 January 2011
Label: Helios / Hyperion Records Ltd
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 034571153544
Description
In the eighteenth century the cantata was considered to be the supreme challenge for a composer's artistry. Here are recorded three fine examples from the enormous corpus of such works by Alessandro Scarlatti, two for solo voice with continuo, and one which includes a particularly demanding part for obbligato trumpet, faultlessly played by Crispian Steele-Perkins.
These cantatas are joined by settings of the Salve Regina by Domenico Scarlatti (Alessandro's sixth son) and Johann Adolf Hasse (a pupil). The work by Hasse is distinctly operatic with florid vocal and instrumental lines, and the younger Scarlatti similarly finds himself drawn away from religious deference to a more flamboyant style.
Tracklisting
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica
Laurence Perkins
Takacs Quartet, Marc-Andre Hamelin
English National Opera Orchestra / Martyn Brabbins
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
Steven Osborne
Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sakari Oramo
Steven Isserlis, Philharmonia Orchestra / Paavo Jarvi
Magdalena Kozena, Mitsuko Uchida
Liparit Avetisyan; Constantine Orbelian; Kaunas City Symphony Orchestra
Joanna Klisowska|Katarzyna Neugebauer
Jean-Francois Borras; Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte-Carlo; Pierre Dumoussaud
Charlotte Saluste-Bridoux, Joseph Havlat
Benjamin Appl, James Baillieu
Anne-Lise Polchlopek; Federico Tibone; Pierre Laniau
Various Artists
