With Forgotten Arias countertenor Philippe Jaroussky pays tribute to composers of the late Baroque era and to the great librettist of the age, Pietro Metasasio. All ten arias on the album, written between 1748 and 1770 by nine composers, are heard in world premiere recordings. Metasasio's librettos were set by multiple composers - Vivaldi, Handel, Gluck and Mozart among them - resulting in hundreds ...
Composer: Andrea Bernasconi (1706-1784), Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787), Louis Alexandre (Luigi Alessandro) Piccinni (1779-1850), Giovanni Battista Ferrandini (1710-1791), Tommaso Traetta (1727-1779), Giovanni Valentini (1582-1649), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699-1783), Johann Christian Bach (1735-1782), Niccolo Jommelli (1714-1774)
Genre: Classical
Subgenre: Vocal