A Scarlatti: Fille, Fille, dolente Fille

Description

Forces: soprano & continuo

As the title suggests, Fille is sad…but, disturbingly, she likes the treatment she is getting from Tirsi: ‘I will enjoy my pains, because I adore the chains…’ Disturbing! A wonderful cantata in RARA format, Scarlatti at his most harmonically adventurous.

Source: Naples, Cantate 266

Editor: James Sanderson