Melissa Fogarty Photo Melissa Fogarty Soprano

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Handel:  Scorned & Betrayed,
Three Italian Cantatas
Albany Records, Troy 812
Release Date:  November 2005

These dramatic cantatas OutMusic Logoare really mini-operas portraying three women on the verge.  Winner of 2006 Outmusic Award for Best Debut Recording (Female).

Handel: Scorned & Betrayed CD
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Scarlatti:  Agar et Ismaele esiliati
Melissa Fogarty, Karina Gauvin,
Jennifer Lane, Nathaniel Watson
Seattle Baroque, Ingrid Matthews (music director) and Byron Schenkman (artistic director)
 Centaur Records, CRC 2664
Released 2003. Click for review.

Scarlatti's beautiful oratorio on the story of the exile of Hagar and Ishmael. 

Agar e Ismaele CD
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Forbidden Dance
Ensemble for the Seicento (Melissa Fogarty, soprano and baroque guitar; Beverley Au, viola da gamba; Michael Eisenberg, harpsichord, Renaissance harp, Mauricio Molina, tambourine, tabor, Renaissance side drum, jew'sharp, castanets and recorder)
Musicians Showcase, MS 1073
 Released 2001.

A collection of greatest hits of the 17th century featuring music by Frescobaldi, Ferrari, Sances and others.  

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