Zomer van Sint-Pieter 2018 - Lore Binon (soprano), Lingua Franca

early music

A kind of mini opera, the Italian cantata is an art that gave rise to hundreds of masterpieces in the early eighteenth century. Among the most appealing are those that include a dialogue between an instrument with voice on the continuo.

Alessandro Scarlatti (1660–1725)
Cantata “Clori mia, Clori bella”
per soprano, flauto e basso continuo

Giuseppe Sammartini (1695–1750)

Sonata in C major for oboe
and continuo, op. 26 No.1

Georg Frideric Handel (1685–1759)
Cantata “Mi palpita il cor”, HWV 132c