Bernardo Pasquini: Cain & Abel (oratorio)

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Recorded 1990 (formerly available from Symphonia)

Pasquini (1637-1717) was among the busiest composers of his time providing music for noble Roman homes: from the Colonna family to the Borghese, in whose service he was regularly employed, from Queen Christine of Sweden to the noted patron-cardinals Benedetto Pamphili and Pietro Ottoboni. Caino e Abele the oratorio, was "sung in the chapel of the lord prince Borghese in the year 1671", very probably in the chapel of the Borghese palace in Rome.