Both operas were revivals of older works by the librettist Silvio Stampiglia and the composer
Alessandro Scarlatti.
After about a month, phrases and slow, short songs due to the slowness of speech were added (especially
Alessandro Scarlatti), concentrating on vowel alone and vowel plus consonants.
Which is, of course, what Bartoli did here, bringing spectacular technical pyrotechnics to music by Handel and his contemporaries
Alessandro Scarlatti and Caldara, but also immense emotional depths to reflective expressions of melancholy.
Handel's youthful oratorio on the Resurrection story, performed in Rome on Easter Sunday 1708 as a sequel to a Passion oratorio by
Alessandro Scarlatti, is so full of good things that it is surprising it has not been recorded more often.
A comparison of Handel's setting of Alexander's first appearance on-stage with those of
Alessandro Scarlatti and Leonardo Vinci reveals some suggestive similarities.
A select group of the chamber orchestra's musicians will offer pieces by
Alessandro Scarlatti, Tomaso Albinoni, Arcangelo Corelli, Henry Purcell and J.S.
Precursors to this tradition are examined, from the early uses of basso continuo, as outlined by Adriano Banchieri in his 1611 treatise L'organo suono, to the early Roman partimenti of Bernardo Pasquini (1637-1711) and, perhaps most significantly,
Alessandro Scarlatti. While working in Rome, Scarlatti was a student of Pasquini.
Her programme this time with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra is entitled "Opera Proibita - Rome at the turn of the 18th Century", and includes works by Handel,
Alessandro Scarlatti and Caldara which feature on her most recent CD release (7.30pm).
For whatever reason, their chances of gaining recognition are slight: they are overshadowed by giants such as Corelli,
Alessandro Scarlatti and Vivaldi.
203) and refers to
Alessandro Scarlatti, Bernardo Pasquini, and Arcangelo Corelli as the "only three composers to have been ever admitted to the Academy of Arcadians" (p.