A. Scarlatti - Cantata Correa nel seno amato Aria 'Ombre opache' by Elizabeth Watts
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Alessandro Scarlatti (1660 - 1725)
Con eco d'amore
Arias from operas and cantatas
Correa nel seno amato
Cantata for voice, 2 violins, continuo.
The first performance in 1690.
Aria: 'Ombre opache'
Ombre opache che il chiarore
Della luce m’ascondete,
Se pur sete del dolore
Fide amiche,
Or che il desio,
Deh! piangete al pianto mio.
Elizabeth Watts, soprano
Performers:
Violins I: Huw Daniel (leader), Sophie Barber, Graham Cracknell, Therese Timoney
Violins II: Walter Reiter, Elizabeth MacCarthy, Iona Davies, Almut Schlicker
Violas: Alfonso Leal del Ojo, Lousie Hogan
Violoncellos: Joseph Crouch, Piroska Baranyay
Double-bass: Peter McCarthy
Theorbo: William Carter
Trumpet: Mark Bennett
Timpani/Percussion: Robert Howes
Harpsichord & Organ: Claire Hammett
Laurence Cummings, director & continuo
The English Concert
[on period instruments]
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Artwork: The Penitent Magdalen in a Landscape by Agostino Carracci, 1598