Bella dama: Baroque Cantatas Thomas Hyde offering listeners a chance to

offering listeners a chance to experience the beauty and musical depth of a composer finally stepping into the light

Also featured are a selection of preludes from Christopher Simpson’s The Division Viol and an additional Prelude in A minor by gambist Robert Smith

the Gould Piano Trio and the BBC Philharmonic under the direction of conductor Geoffrey Paterson

to illuminate a rich and complex network of stylistic innovation at the dawn of the Baroque era

Having been neglected for over a century this recording attempts a reassessment of these composers and their work employing period instruments and techniques to render them as sympathetically and accurately as possible

Bella dama: Baroque Cantatas Thomas Hyde offering listeners a chance toRaffaele P (countertenor)Spiritato! Making their Resonus debut with this album of Italian Baroque cantatas are the talented young countertenor Raffaele P and dynamic London based early music ensemble Spiritato! Entitled Bella dama, this album features Baroque cantatas by Antonio Vivaldi, Nicola Porpora and Alessandro Scarlatti. Focusing on the image of the lady in Italian eighteenth century music and art, these works include Vivaldis Cessate, omai