Cantatas, Chamber Works : Rottsolk, Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players

ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI (1660-1725) : Cantatas and Chamber Music

Quella pace gradita
Non so qual piu m’ingombra (Cantata Pastorale)
Bella, s’io t’amo
Bella dama di nome Santa
Concerto IX in A minor

Clara Rottsolk, soprano
Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players

The soprano Clara Rottsolk joins Tempesta di Mare Chamber Players for a disc of cantatas and instrumental music by Alessandro Scarlatti. Though his cantatas and operas are little known today Scarlatti was a titan in his time, closely associated with Rome’s Arcadian Academy and an inspiration to the much younger Handel, a frequent visitor to the Academy.

Scarlatti’s specialty was the cantata, the operatic equivalent of the short story, in which music and narrative are distilled to their core, resulting in beautiful and moving yet succinct multi-movement vocal works.