Every Friday we choose a observe from a Naxos Music Group album launched twenty years in the past to offer the accompaniment for 5 minutes of your downtime.
This week’s decide from the Capriccio label (C71083) is lo godo, rido e spero, an aria from Handel’s solo cantata, Un’alma innamorata. Though it’s sung on this recording by a soprano, the textual content doesn’t allude to the intercourse of the narrator, however the aria’s sentiment does counsel that if love is spurned, then there are lots extra fish within the sea: “I rejoice, chortle, hope and love a couple of coronary heart, and right here is why. If one’s ideas are likely to a vagabond love, then go and discover out the place it’s.”
Aria: lo godo, rido e spero (C71083)
