Ingratissima Clori, for soprano and basso continuo

ISMN: 979-0-708041-55-9

Edición de / Edited by: Talbot, Michael

IThe text for Ingratissima Clori does not appear in Ottoboni?s Trattenimenti poetici, and its authorship is therefore uncertain. However, it exhibits one of Ottoboni?s most consistent stylistic ?trademarks? - the use of end-rhyme throughout the recitative stanzas (i.e., not merely in a final couplet) - and the worldly- wise view of romantic love expressed in it (amounting to: if one love-object is unresponsive to you, seek another) is very much in his vein. It should be considered a candidate for his authorship. The text comprises two arias, each introduced by a short recitative. This is the ?RARA? layout that dominated the cantata around 1700, before becoming displaced from favour in its turn by the even more condensed ?ARA? layout.