Soprano voice & basso
continuo
SKU:
HH.HH150-FSP
Composed
by Tomaso Giovanni
Albinoni. Edited by
Michael Talbot. Voice
(Soprano) & Basso
Continuo. Full score and
parts. Edition HH Music
Publishers #HH150-FSP.
Published by Edition HH
Music Publishers
(HH.HH150-FSP).
ISBN
9790708059042.
This
cantata, from an
important manuscript in
Berlin containing 18
Albinoni cantatas for
soprano and continuo,
describes how Clori,
seeing her beloved Clizio
asleep in a grassy
meadow, begs him to awake
– since only then
will her love pangs be
stilled. The verse may be
banal, but the lightness
and grace of
Albinoni’s setting
turns it into something
delightful – a
precursor, almost, of the
versions by Brahms and
Wolf of In dem Schatten
meiner Locken.