DOROTHY BENNETT (Soprano) ; ROY HENDERSON
(Baritone)
THE GERSHOM PARKINGTON QUINTET
CARISSIMI, the famous seventeenth century writer of Oratorios and Cantatas, presents in this song not the common conception of the triumph of love, but the unusual one of the lover's emphatic renunciation of it, and his outburst of satisfaction at being freed from its power.
HANDEL'S air is perhaps the finest piece of vocal storm music in existence-a splendid bit of floridity in a style long gone out of fashion.