Soprano voice & basso continuo SKU: HH.HH140-FSP
Composed by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni. Edited by Michael Talbot. Voice (Soprano) & Basso Continuo. Full score and parts. Edition HH Music Publishers #HH140-FSP. Published by Edition HH Music Publishers (HH.HH140-FSP). ISBN 9790708041917.
Most probably, this cantata was first performed in Rome at an accademia held at the cardinal's palace. Tarquinia is lauded equally for her beauty and for her virtue. If the first aria is playful in tone, the second strikes a more serious note, since female modesty is not something to take lightly! To this second aria Albinoni appends a very brief, third recitative that opens out into a longer cavata, a fugue like section bringing the cantata to an animated and triumphant close.
