KEITH FALKNER (Baritone)
VICTOR SCHIÖLER (Pianoforte)
LIKE many another composer known only by ono song, Carissimi was a prolific composer and did much for the improvement both of oratorio and cantata in their early days. Ho was besides a teacher of many pupils, who became more famous than himself, among them Bononcini and Allessandro Scarlatti.
This one piece of his which is still sung is so finely eloquent an expression of triumph that listeners must often wonder why it alone of all his music ever appears on programmes.