Specialists have long been aware of an anonymous serenata entitled Andromeda liberata housed in the musical archives of Venice’s Benedetto Marcello Conservatory.
The forgotten score aroused minimal interest, however, until French musicologist Olivier Fourès identified one of its arias as having been composed by Vivaldi. “Sovvente il sole” is a staggering largo in A minor with an obligato violin part; the work is also included in a precious autograph collection of arias which is preserved, like Andromeda, in the Marcello Conservatory. |
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