Solo Cantatas by Thomas A. Arne is a most welcome and unusual addition to the slim recorded canon of Arne's exquisite vocal cantatas, most written for use at the Vauxhall pleasure gardens for expert singers. This makes available for the first time on disc the whole of Arne's 1755 published edition Six Cantatas for a voice and instruments. Issued by John Walsh in London, this was the only print of orchestrally accompanied vocal music by a native English composer to appear in the eighteenth century. Arne's cantatas are among ...
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Solo Cantatas by Thomas A. Arne is a most welcome and unusual addition to the slim recorded canon of Arne's exquisite vocal cantatas, most written for use at the Vauxhall pleasure gardens for expert singers. This makes available for the first time on disc the whole of Arne's 1755 published edition Six Cantatas for a voice and instruments. Issued by John Walsh in London, this was the only print of orchestrally accompanied vocal music by a native English composer to appear in the eighteenth century. Arne's cantatas are among the most precious of the era's neglected musical jewels; the recitative "The glitt'ring Sun" that opens his cantata The Morning is a good starting point for getting a grip on Arne's inspired and truly great vocal music. Though released on the American Centaur label based in Louisiana, the recording of Solo Cantatas by Thomas A. Arne was made at the Salesian Institute in Szombathely, Hungary, with the Hungarian period band Capella Savaria and soloist Mária Zádori. The lone Yankee in...
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