Add MS 31597

Vol. IV.

ff. 143. Arias, with symphonies and accompaniments for strings, and occasionally also other instruments, as indicated below, in score, from Operas by Italian composers of the first half of the 18th century.

1. 'Deh, placati al fine.' 'Niccolò Jommelli.' Venice, 1747. f. 2. 2. 'Lasciami in pace.' By the same. Performed at the Fiorentini theatre, Naples, in 1748. f. 8. 3, 4. 'Per quel paterno amplesso,' and 'L'onda dal mar diuisa' [from 'Artaserse']. By the same. 1749. ff. 16, 22. 5. 'Deh, se pietà' {from 'Mario in Numidia'.} 'Rinaldo di Capua.' Performed at the Alle Dame theatre in 1749. f. 28. 6-8. 'Vorrei spiegar,' 'Di un genio,' and 'Se intende si poco' [from 'Semiramide']. 'David Perez.' 1749. ff. 32, 36, 40. 9. 'Fui lieto'; with horns, flutes (flautini), etc. [From 'Nerone.'] {From 'Mario in Numidia'.} 'Rinaldo di Capua.' f. 46. 10. 'Parto; ti lascio, o cara.' 'Giovacchino Cocchi.' f. 56. 11. 'È in ogni core diverso amore'; with horns, oboes, etc. 'Egidio Duni.' f. 62. 12. 'Minacci quell' altera'; with horns, etc. By the same. f. 71. 13. 'Scieglier trà mille' [from 'Temistocle']. '[G. B.]Pergolesi.' f. 83. 14-18. Five arias, with horns, flutes, etc. [from 'Artaserse']. 'Antonio Gaetano Pampani.' The opera was performed at the San Giovanni Grisostomo theatre, as op. 3, in 1750, and sung by 'Egiziello' [sc. Gioacchino Conti, detto Gizziello], Signor 'Steffanin,' and Signora Cassarini. The arias are: — 'Viuerò, se tù lò uuoi'; 'Per quel paterno amplesso'; 'Se al Labbro mio non credi'; 'Deh, respirar'; and 'Conseruati fedele.' ff. 87, 93, 96, 100, 104. 19-24. Six arias by Giovanni Battista Pescetti, apparently all of them (with the possible exception of no. 23) sung at Reggio, in 1750, by Prudenza Sani(?), Domenico Panzac[c]hi, and Gizziello, and presumably taken from 'Nerone,' in which Opera no. 24, accompanied by horns, etc., certainly occurs. The arias are: — 'Ricordati che sola sei'; 'Fra tanti perigli'; 'Da me che più uolete'; 'Cara, ti lascio, addio'; 'Serba l'intat[t]a fede'; and 'Pupille care.' {Ascribed to Jommelli at Add MS 31654, f. 65.} ff. 108, 112, 116, 122, 128, 135.