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Worship in a Time of Plague: Capella Intima and the Gallery Players of Niagara

Worship in a Time of Plague is a recording project by Capella Intima and the Gallery Players of Niagara. The title seems especially fitting for Holy Week in 2023, three years into our own pandemic. The scholarly side of the … Continue reading

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First recording of Scarlatti’s first opera

You may know the name “Scarlatti”. Domenico Scarlatti (1685–1757), wrote those fascinating sonatas for keyboard, but he’s not the only Scarlatti by any means. He had an older brother Pietro Scarlatti (1679-1750) who had some success as a composer. Domenico’s father … Continue reading

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Gentle Dafne

The Dafne I refer to is not that of Jacopo Peri from 1598, and considered the first opera (for those who might want to make that kind of statement), but Marco da Gagliano’s 1608 setting, also using Ottavio Rinuccini’s libretto. … Continue reading

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