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  • "Giasone," which had its premiere in Venice in 1649 and is said to have been the era's most frequently performed opera, is similar to "The Coronation of Poppea" in both its musical style recitative and short ariosi and its view of human nature as amoral.

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  • Cuius animam gementem, with its soft martial rhythm and bravura high D-flat, its ariosi redolent with Italian bel canto, Mozart, and Gluck.

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2010

  • Cuius animam gementem, with its soft martial rhythm and bravura high D-flat, its ariosi redolent with Italian bel canto, Mozart, and Gluck.

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2010

  • Yet, Haskil manages to impart a directness and plain-speaking in the ariosi and recitativo passages that testify to the searching character of each of her endeavors.

    Audiophile Audition Headlines 2009

  • Other early four-part madrigals appeared in Barrè’s Roman anthologies of madrigali ariosi.

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