I Solisti Ambrosiani - Bigaglia: Cantate per soprano e continuo (2023) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Ah, Santi Numi
02. Aure dolci, erbe molli, ameni fiori
03. Bel piacer d’un amante
04. Dove vai mio ben crudele
05. Ecco perfida Irene
06. Erano ancor immote
07. Filli, che vedo o cieli
08. Gran crudeltà di stella
09. Non lasciarmi o bella speme

Diogenio Bigaglia, a composer who at present is unknown to most people, was active in Venice in the first half of the eighteenth century, so he was a contemporary of the much better known Tomaso Albinoni, Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello, and, above all, Antonio Vivaldi, whose work shows several evident– and more or less explicit – references to Bigaglia’s production. So he turns out to be a composer who is worthy of interest not only for the intrinsic musical worth of his works, but also for the influence his activity may have had on musicians with whom we are more familiar; this is why musicologists have recently started showing an increasing interest in him. The selection of cantatas presented here is performed by the voice of soprano Tullia Pedersoli that skillfully interprets the musical ‘affetti’ proposed by the simple and elegant style of the composer, who in some points even seems to have provided some cues to Johann Sebastian Bach that, as known, deeply studied Italian and Venetian. All the cantate are about love, and frequently resort to the literary topoi that are typical of this genre.

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