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This new first world recording explores Antonio Caldara and his sontatas and cantatas. Antonio Caldara is chiefly known as a composer of vocal music (operas, cantatas and oratorios), and is especially remembered for his operas, many of which are settings of librettos by Zeno and Metasasio. His stylistic development as a composer, however, has been described as a movement from works that are carefully crafted, with attention given to both musical and dramatic elements (his pre-1716 works) to music that becomes increasingly less detailed and texturally thinner (post-1716), reflecting Caldara's pressing schedule in Vienna. Today, manuscripts of Caldara's music are widely dispersed across Europe but his compositions which record so valuable a picture of the late Baroque in Italy and Austria are comparatively unknown to performers and little studied by scholars. The works are performed on this by the ensemble I Solisti Ambrosiani. Album Tracks 1. Cantata VI. Risoluto son glà~Risoluto son già (recitativo) 2. Cantata VI. Risoluto son glà~Arma frodi strali (aria) 3. Cantata VI. Risoluto son glà~Quel panico spavento (recitativo) 4. Cantata VI. Risoluto son glà~Guerra, guerra (aria) 5. Cantata II. Innocente cor mio~Innocente cor mio (recitativo) 6. Cantata II. Innocente cor mio~Non fidarti, e non scherzare (aria) 7. Cantata II. Innocente cor mio~La vaga luce (recitativo) 8. Cantata II. Innocente cor mio~Temi d'Amore (aria) 9. Sonate da camera (6) for violin, cello & continuo~Sonata I. Preludio Largo 10. Sonate da camera (6) for violin, cello & continuo~Sonata I. Allegro 11. Sonate da camera (6) for violin, cello & continuo~Sonata I. Allegro 12. Sonate da camera (6) for violin, cello & continuo~Sonata II. Preludio Adagio 13. Sonate da camera (6) for violin, cello & continuo~Sonata II. Allegro 14. Sonate da camera (6) for viol
