A Scarlatti: Peno, e del mio penar

Description

Forces: soprano & continuo

28 August, 1705, autograph source in New Haven, Yale (Scarlatti’s ‘cantata diary’).
Penetrating melismatic recitatives, with final aria in Siciliano style. Scarlatti’s complex chromatic style.

Range: e flat’- g”. C minor/F minor.

Editor: Rosalind Halton