HANDEL & SCARLATTI: Italian Cantatas - Helen Watts, Raymond Leppard, Thurston Dart

These delightful Cantatas have very familiar tunes that Handel was later to reuse in other works, so many of them are instantly recognisable. They also elicit some of the most visceral singing imaginable from Helen Watts.

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL
Cantatas:
Splenda l’alba in oriente
Carco sempre di gloria
Tu fedel…Tu constante

Helen Watts, contralto
English Chamber Orchestra
Raymond Leppard

ALESSANDRO SCARLATTI
Il Rossignuolo se scioglie il volo
Clori vezzosa e bella

Helen Watts, contralto
Thurston Dart, harpsichord
Desmond Dupré, viola da gamba