For newcomers who look at the wikipedia article, Camilla de Rossi's "Il Sacrifizio di Abramo" is not a "four-movement sinfonia" but an oratorio with a four-movement sinfonia for strings and continuo (between the first and second parts) that has a prominent lute obbligato, which occasionally sounds like a lute concerto in the outer movements. It sounds not particularly difficult to play, so those players who are chummy with two violinists, a violist a cellist and another continuo player might want to give it a try. Rossi is a particularly tantalizing figure because almost nothing is known about her.
A recording by Weser-Renaissance, directed by Manfred Cordes, with Thomas Ihlenfeldt on archlute and a cast of several, came out on CPO in 1996. It's fairly available, and Amazon.com helpfully points out that you can find references to it "Women and Music: A History" and "The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Woman Composers." The 1990 [San Francisco] Bay Area Women's Philharmonic with JoAnn Falletta playing the lute-of-some-sort, mentioned by Eugene, doesn't seem to be available, unless you want to check it out of the Chicago Public Library. The soprano on that recording, Judith Nelson, did significant early music recording in London (with the likes of Hogwood, Rooley, Emma Kirkby and David Thomas) and elsewhere, but the BAWP is an all-purpose group that plays music from all periods. Indeed, if you're interested in samples of music by wopersons who may not be household names, check out its site at: www.rebeccaclarke.org/wophil On Sep 10, 2009, at 7:35 PM, EUGENE BRAIG IV wrote: > There is de Rossi: > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camilla_de_Rossi > > ...and a decent recording by JoAnn Falletta on "lute" (I'm not > certain which incarnation of lute) of one of de Rossi's works for > archlute and strings on: > Bay Area Women's Philharmonic. 1990. Baroquen Treasures. Newport > Classic, NCD 60102. > > I don't know how easy it would be to locate this recording any longer. -- To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
