In
May 1707 George Frideric Handel entered into the service of the Marquis
Francesco Maria Ruspoli, and under his protection, embarked upon a
tremendous career. As well as making a name for himself as a
spectacular virtuoso on the harpsichord and organ, through his plentiful
concerts in the Roman academies, Handel lost no time in also becoming a
highly sought-after composer through his felicitous and apparently
inexhaustible inspiration. In addition to a significant number of
cantatas for solo voice and basso continuo, Handel also involved
himself in composing cantatas for larger numbers of voices, combining
these with a large supporting orchestral group.
The score of Clori, Tirsi e Fileno
is certainly a complex one, as much for its dramatic plotline as for
its individually-chosen musical options: the result is a genuine opera
in miniature, equipped with real refinement and lightness. Consequently,
Clori, Tirsi e Fileno turns - even more so than with other Italian cantata works by the caro Sassone
- into an authentic laboratory in which Handel experiments with the
most diverse musical and dramatic forms, obtaining by this method a
capacity to elaborate that special language which was to locate it
firmly within the glories of the theatre, from the past and the present. (GLOSSA)
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