We hear Handel's Overture to The Triumph of Time and Truth, played by the Orchestra La Scintillia of Zurich Opera. They're in concert in Boston. Then the dazzling mezzo-soprano Cecilia Bartoli ...
This is the first recording of the elaborate 14-movement Gloria by Antonio Caldara (1670-1725), written while he was in the service of the Duke of Mantua. The autograph score, inscribed ‘Venice, 1707’ ...