Martines: Il primo amore – review

Nuria Rial (soprano), La Floridiana/Paraschivescu(Deutsche Harmonia Mundi)Marianna Martines, one of the most celebrated Viennese performers and composers of her day, died 200 years ago, an anniversary that offers an opportunity to reassess her output of cantatas, concertos, sonatas and concert arias. Four pieces here are recorded for the first time and reveal a talent firmly rooted in the style of her contemporaries Mozart and Haydn but imbued with a refreshingly feminine vivacity. The cantata "...

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