Bigaglia - Cantatas for Soprano and Continuo | Tactus TC670203

Bigaglia - Cantatas for Soprano and Continuo

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Label: Tactus

Cat No: TC670203

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 7th April 2023

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About

Diogenio Bigaglia (1678-1745), a composer who at present is unknown to most people, was active in Venice in the first half of the eighteenth century, so he was a contemporary of the much better known Tomaso Albinoni, Alessandro and Benedetto Marcello, and, above all, Antonio Vivaldi, whose work shows several evident– and more or less explicit – references to Bigaglia’s production. So he turns out to be a composer who is worthy of interest not only for the intrinsic musical worth of his works, but also for the influence his activity may have had on musicians with whom we are more familiar; this is why musicologists have recently started showing an increasing interest in him. The selection of cantatas presented here is performed by the voice of soprano Tullia Pedersoli that skillfully interprets the musical ‘affetti’ proposed by the simple and elegant style of the composer, who in some points even seems to have provided some cues to Johann Sebastian Bach who, as known, deeply studied Italian and Venetian models. All the cantatas are about love, and frequently resort to the literary topoi that are typical of this genre.

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