The first serious Edition of one of the most important but still neglected Italian Baroque composers: Alessandro Scarlatti, founder of the Neapolitan School, and a great influence on composers after him.

Contains a substantial selection of large scale oratorios, operas, cantatas and instrumental music.

Music of great invention, passion and brilliance.

Performed on period instruments by Italian Early Music soloists and ensembles/orchestras.

Recordings date from 1961 to 2015.

Contains liner notes by Philip Borg?Wheeler.

Artists

Ilaria Galgani (soprano), Susanna Anselmi (alto), Luca Casalin (tenor), Daniele Tonini (bass), Francesco Tasini (harpsichord), Gabriella Martellacci (alto), Cristina Miatello (soprano), Guido Morini (harpsichord), Andrea Fossà (cello), Gloria Banditelli (contralto), Giampaolo Fagotto (tenor), Claudia Cavina (alto), Cristiano Miatello (soprano), Barbara di Castri (Palandrana), Gastone Sarti (Zamberlucco), Susanna Crespo Held (soprano), Rosita Frisani (Maria), Anna Chierichetti (S. Giovanni), Gianluca Belfiori Doro (Nicodemo), Mario Cecchetti (Onìa), Rosita Frisani (Giuditta), Marco Lazzàra (Nutrice), Mario Nuvoli (Oloferne), Linda Campanella (Fede), Silvia Bossa (Amor Divino), Gianluca Belfiori Doro (Teologia), Mario Cecchetti (Infedeltà), Carlo Lepore (Tempo), Amor Lilia Pérez (Sedecia), Alessandra Capici (Anna), Rosita Frisani (Ismaele), Mario Cecchetti (Nadabbe), Marco Vinco (Nabucco), Mario Nuvoli (S. Filippo), Marco Lazzàra (Fede), Manuela Custer (Speranza), Rosita Frisani (Carità), Melissa Givens (soprano), Barrett Sills (cello), Deborah Dunham (violin), Richard Savino (archlute), Matthew Dirst (harpsichord), Melissa Givens (Arcangelo Michele), Gerrod Pagenkopf (La grazia), Joseph Gaines (L’eresia), Timothy Jones (Il serpente), Alan Austin, Jonathan Godfrey (baroque violins), Barrett Sills (baroque cello), Dennis Whittaker (double bass), Scott Horton (archlute), Mechthild Bach (Colpa), Petra Geitner (Grazia), Kai Wessel (Pentimento), Jean Preston (soprano), Blanche Christensen (soprano), Beryl Jensen Smiley (alto), Ronald Christensen (tenor), Warren Wood (bass), Roberto Fernández de Larrinoa (violin), Menno van Delft (organ), Diana Moore (Primavera), Suzana Ograjensek (Estate), Clint van der Linde (Autunno), Nicholas Phan (Inverno), Douglas Williams (Giove)

Capella Tiberina, Il Ruggiero, Insieme Strumentale di Roma, Ensemble Aurora, Concerto Italiano, FORTUNA ENSEMBLE, Musica Poëtica Ensemble, Alessandro Stradella Consort, La Stagione, University of Utah Chorus, Utah Symphony Orchestra, Nederlands Kamerkoor, Philharmonia Chorale, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Estévan Velardi, Michael Schneider, Maurice Abravanel, Harry van der Kamp, Nicholas McGegan