Benedetto Vinaccesi

Since it does not appear in Ottoboni's Trattenimenti poetici and fails to exhibit one of his most consistent stylistic ‘trademarks' - the use of end-rhyme throughout the recitative stanzas (i.e....

This is an example of a cantata morale - a cantata that, for once, does not explore the pleasures and pains of love among the shepherds and nymphs of Arcadia but offers timeless advice on moral conduc...

The cantata's subject, treated with a soupçon of humour and originality (by being combined with the unrelated theme of sleep), is the familiar one of a lover protesting his fidelity to his beloved. Th...

These two cantatas make an excellent introduction to Vinaccesi's music.