Maria Caruso - Alessandro ScarlattiL Correa nel seno amato & Other Cantatas (2019)

Elegia Classics inaugurates a new series dedicated to the Italian cantata, which will see her alongside the Italian Society of Musicology and some of the most interesting singers and ensembles of original instruments on the Italian music scene. The first volume is - we could say dutifully - centered on Alessandro Scarlatti, who during his long career composed over 700 cantatas, ranging from delicate Arcadian atmospheres, to works based on mythological themes and pieces with a decidedly dramatic character. The works presented in this record reveal the two main characteristics of the style of the great composer from Palermo, namely an inexhaustible melodic talent and a complex and very elaborate writing, which still looks to the models of the past. The program starts from Correa nel bosomato, a very well-known page, which many consider among the most emblematic masterpieces of Scarlatti's production, to arrive at two cantatas proposed in world first recording, the short Benché o Sirena bella and Dove Fugue, a che I think. This record marks the debut in the catalog of Elegia Classics by soprano Maria Caruso and the ensemble Trigono Armonico, conducted on the violin by Maurizio Cadossi.