Hasse - Cantatas Vol.1  | Brilliant Classics 93636

Hasse - Cantatas Vol.1

Label: Brilliant Classics

Cat No: 93636

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 16th March 2009

Contents

Works

Hasse
Aria "Come l’ape di fiore in fiore" for soprano, 2 violins & basso continuo

Hasse
Cantata Il nome ("Scrivo in te l’amato nome"), for contralto, flute & basso continuo

Hasse
Sonata a tre in mi minore Op.3 No.2 for 2 flutes & basso continuo

Hasse
Cantata "Chieggio ai gigli ed alle rose" for soprano & basso continuo

Hasse
Sonata a tre in re maggiore Op.3 No.3 for 2 flutes & basso continuo

Hasse
Cantata "E ver, mia Fille, e vero" for contralto, 2 violins, viola & basso continuo

Hasse
Aria "Si, vezzosetti rai"

Hasse
Aria "Muta e l’imago dell’idolo amato" for soprano, 2 violins & basso continuo

Artists

Lia Serafini (soprano)
Gabriella Martellacci (contralto)
Accademia del Ricercare

Conductor

Pietro Busca

Works

Hasse
Aria "Come l’ape di fiore in fiore" for soprano, 2 violins & basso continuo

Hasse
Cantata Il nome ("Scrivo in te l’amato nome"), for contralto, flute & basso continuo

Hasse
Sonata a tre in mi minore Op.3 No.2 for 2 flutes & basso continuo

Hasse
Cantata "Chieggio ai gigli ed alle rose" for soprano & basso continuo

Hasse
Sonata a tre in re maggiore Op.3 No.3 for 2 flutes & basso continuo

Hasse
Cantata "E ver, mia Fille, e vero" for contralto, 2 violins, viola & basso continuo

Hasse
Aria "Si, vezzosetti rai"

Hasse
Aria "Muta e l’imago dell’idolo amato" for soprano, 2 violins & basso continuo

Artists

Lia Serafini (soprano)
Gabriella Martellacci (contralto)
Accademia del Ricercare

Conductor

Pietro Busca

About

It has been said of Johann Adolf Hasse that few composers have been as famous in their time as Hasse and yet as quickly forgotten. In Italy he had been called the ‘Padre della musica’, yet upon his death only one musical work was written in his honour by J A Hiller, a friend of Hasse.

So what happened to one of the most successful opera composers of the 18th century after Handel and Gluck, to bring about such a fall from favour? A composer who knew Frederick the Great and performed with the monarch? First, he simply became out of date after a very long career, and secondly, he lost his considerable wealth due to the collapse of the Venetian financial system in the early 1780s.

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