Elizabeth Watts - Audio

Elizabeth Watts soprano
Mark Bennett trumpet
Huw Daniel violin
The English Concert
Laurence Cummings director & harpsichord

HMU 807574 | harmoniamundi.com

With a steely zeal to repatriate a neglected composer (especially one with a more-famous son) soprano Elizabeth Watts and conductor Laurence Cummings have scoured the prolific output of Alessandro Scarlatti – some 600 cantatas, 30 oratorios and more than 100 operas – for this new recording of scintillating arias.  With excerpts from three cantatas and serenatas apiece as well as six operas, Con eco d’amore on Harmonia Mundi has been receiving rave reviews: read here.