Marcello - Cassandra
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Label: Aeon
Cat No: AECD1087
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Release Date: 24th May 2010
Contents
Artists
Kai Wessel (countertenor)David Blunden (harpsichord)
Works
Concerto in C minor, BWV981 (solo keyboard, after B Marcello)Cassandra
Artists
Kai Wessel (countertenor)David Blunden (harpsichord)
About
The many [25] extant copies of this cantata, here given its world première recording, testify to the impact it had in its own time. Charles Burney reports a performance in Venice in 1770 at which the cantata was impressively interpreted by a bass, but almost all the manuscripts are headed by ‘Cantata per Alto’. The range of the vocal part stretches more than three octaves, which explains the difficulty in finding an interpreter able to sing it: it may be that Cassandra was sung by a bass performing as an ‘altus’.
Following the practice of the time, Kaï Wessel and David Blunden have taken the liberty of improvising interludes at a few points where the action shifts between vision and oracle – in concert these also provide brief moments of rest for the voice.
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