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Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), father of the more famous Domenico, was an important composer of his era-mostly of vocal works,including over 700 secular cantatas, forty oratorios, and more than a hundred melodramas. Many discussions of the elder Scarlatti barely mention his instrumental music, but he did write some of great quality. The twelve Sinfonie da Concerto Grosso, the first half of which are recorded here, are especially intriguing since they feature the flute. Scarlatti had always expressed an aversion to wind instruments, which he found perpetually out of tune.