NICOLA PORPORA (1686-1768): Cantatas: Abbandonata e solo, Ecco che il primo albore, Destatevi, destatevi o pastori, Oh se fosse il mio core, JOHANN GOTTLIEB GOLDBERG (1727-1756): Harpsichord Sonata.

Description: Unlike the London cantatas offered last month on Brilliant Classics (02O024) and the latter two on this disc, the first two listed above date from Porpora's Neapolitan period (1712-1715) and are less flamboyantly virtuosic and closer to the folky style of the canzone napolitane. Italian-English texts. Artur Stefanowicz (countertenor), Ensemble Club Europa; Dorota Cybulska-Amsler (harpsichord).