BERNARDO PASQUINI (1637-1710): 6 Cantatas for Bass and Continuo, 7 solo harpsichord pieces.

Description: Among Pasquini’s surviving cantatas, the six scored for solo bass stand out, for their keen sense of theatre and expressive rhetoric. They take Biblical history, tales of Roman history and pastoral-erotic tropes for their subjects, and they are imaginatively presented here as a cycle, interleaved with pieces for harpsichord, as though recreating a refined evening of music-making at a Roman palazzo around the turn of the 18th century. No texts. Lisandro Abadie (bass), Capella Tiberina.