Mancini: Tinte à note di sangue

Description

Forces: soprano & continuo

Source: BL Add MS 14220 ff 18r – 21v<br>
A complex piece with an excellent vari-tempo final aria. The text can be summed up in two lines from the first recit: Written in blood, these tormented words my betrayed heart sends to you…Think, think how much I have loved you, know that you are not mine, and weep for the pity of my plight<br>
Range: d – g’

Editor: James Sanderson