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Along with his contemporaries Bernardo Pasquini and the rather younger Alessandro Scarlatti – and although less prolific than them – Stradella stands at a transitional period in the history of opera, and all happened to work in Rome. In their hands, the form evolved from an essentially continuous sequence of recitative or melodious arioso, towards …

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