Pergolesi’s relatively popular comedy La serva padrona was originally intended to be performed as an intermezzo for his opera seria Il prigionier superbo. It’s therefore fitting that recordings by substantially the same forces, though recorded two years apart, should be released as a package. The recordings were made at the Teatro G.B. Pergolesi in Jesi in 2009 and 2011 respectively. Both performances were directed by Henning Brockhaus and feature the Accademia Barocca di I Virtuosi Italiani conducted by Corrado Rovaris. The works are presented on separate disks rather than the having the two halves of the intermezzo inserted in the intervals of the more serious work as they would originally have been performed.
Pergolesi double bill
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