CRISTOFARO CARESANA (c.1640-1709): Secular Chamber Cantatas - Viver Senza Speranza, La Rosa, Volevo un dì combattere, Nella stagion novella, La dove il bel Sebeto, Il Narciso, Tancredi sulla morte di Clorinda.

Description: This Neapolitan composer’s cantatas represent a synthesis of Venetian and Monteverdi-style musical narrative, in an idiom typical of the style that made Naples the musical capital of Italy at the time of Caresana’s maturity. Italian texts. Juliette de Banes Gardonne (mezzo), Ensemble Démesure.