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In the context of Alessandro Scarlatti’s immense musical production, the recorder repertory certainly plays an important role, the fruit of an interest spanning all the career of the composer which has this instrument as protagonist, both in his many instrumental works and in larger orchestral groups of serenades and musical dramas and in a large production of cantatas with obligatory instruments. This CD proposes cantatas with the soprano voice requiring one or two recorders, besides two sonatas for recorder and basso continuo. It is a homogeneous musical corpus, not by chance almost all contained in two manuscripts preserved in that extraordinary mine of Italian music which is the Santini collection, preserved in the Diözesanbibliothek of Münster, with the exception of the cantata Ardo è ver per te d‚amore, a manuscript copy of which is in the library of the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples.