Francesca Aspromonte / Sonoro,Arsenale * Alessandro Scarlatti: Vieni, O Notte [New CD] SPO There'll Be No Second Time

There'll Be No Second Time

and Anthony Gesa (guitar/vocals)-deliver a message that sounds less like a eulogy and more like a rallying cry

featuring General Elektriks

with the overwhelming highlight being the high-speed samba arrangement of 'Man or Boy (Ipanema no Musume)'

Empty Church

Francesca Aspromonte / Sonoro,Arsenale * Alessandro Scarlatti: Vieni, O Notte [New CD] SPO There'll Be No Second TimeWith Vieni, o Notte, Francesca Aspromonte signs her first recording for Apart with an all Scarlatti program. Together with Arsenale Sonoro and Boris Begelman, she explores three cantatas (sometimes described as serenate) in which the composer makes the night the stage for his characters' thwarted loves. He gives them arias and recitatives that are painful, contemplative, or searing, complemented by two sonate a quattro with madrigalian lines, whose