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The Cantata Editions catalogue now contains 547 editions, transcriptions and compact discs which means our full catalogue is well over 1 Mb. As a result we have decided to speed access by providing immediate search facilities. Please choose how you would like to browse from the drop down lists below.
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We specialise in publishing works which are difficult to find or have not been reproduced in modern editions. All of our editions are based upon the original manuscripts or period printings and editorial changes are clearly marked so that performers are able to make informed choices in preparing the works.

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A Scarlatti, Leo, Porpora, Hasse, Pergolesi, Handel, Metastasio & Gluck

OPERA
 "...a drama set to music and made up of vocal pieces with orchestral accompaniment and with orchestral overtures and interludes..."*

BAROQUE
The term Baroque probably ultimately derived from the Italian word barocco, which was a term used by philosophers during the Middle Ages to describe an obstacle in schematic logic. Subsequently the word came to denote any contorted idea or involuted process of thought. Another possible source is the Portuguese word barroco (Spanish barrueco), used to describe an irregular or imperfectly shaped pearl, and this usage still survives in the jeweller's term baroque pearl. In art criticism the word Baroque came to be used to describe anything irregular, bizarre, or otherwise departing from established rules and proportions.*

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Detail from Nicola Porpora's Componimento drammatico Gli orti Esperidi
 Detail from Nicola Porpora's Componimento drammatico Gli orti Esperidi 
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