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“Alarico il Baltha, cioè l’Audace, Rè de Gothi” (1687) – “Hor che sola qui resto … Già cominci a farmi piangere” Recitative and Lamento of Sabina – II Act – IV Scene – Agostino Steffani (1654 – 1728) – COMPLETE WORLD PREMIERE.

Centaurus Music Int. Studio Recording “Agostino Steffani – Alarico il Baltha, cioè l’Audace, Rè de Gothi (1687) – COMPLETE WORLD PREMIERE ” – ℗ 2004
Second edition Concerto Classics-Naxos – ℗ 2009
© Luca Casagrande.
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Maria Carla Curìa Soprano (Sabina)
Scarlatti Camera Ensemble
Artistic Director and Producer Luca Casagrande.

“A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret, or mourning. A heroine’s lament is a conventional fixture of baroque opera seria, accompanied usually by strings alone, in descending tetrachords. Because of their plangent cantabile melodic lines, evocatively free, non-strophic construction and adagio pace, operatic laments have remained vividly memorable soprano or mezzo-soprano arias even when separated from the emotional pathos of their operatic contexts.”
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ACT II SCENE IV

Sabina

Hor che sola qui resto
Memorie del mio Bene
Eco fate dall’Alma alle mie Pene.

Già cominci a farmi piangere
O Tiranno Infante Arcier.
Giungi al Foco del mio Seno
Il Veleno
Di Spietata Lontananza,

Et in Grembo alla Costanza
Mi condanni à penare o Dio sever.