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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2021 1:10:03 GMT
In another thread I mentioned some classical music on vinyl that I inherited from my late father. He passed several years ago, and it's a long story regarding the reason it took all this time for me to take possession of these albums. Of particular interest to me were some collections of Baroque music that I remember listening to with Dad when I was very young. I have picked out some "greatest hits" and needle-dropped them to a CD-R. Here's what I came up with: Handel--Xerxes: Largo Pachelbel--Canon in D for Strings and Continuo J. S. Bach--The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue #3 in C Sharp Vivaldi--The Four Seasons, Op. 8: Concerto #4in F Minor Marcello--Concerto in C Minor for Oboe Handel--Water Music: Air Handel--Judas Maccabaeus: See the Conquering Hero Comes Albinoni--Adagio in G Minor for Strings and Organ Vivaldi--Concerto in D for Two Mandolins Handel--Concerto #13 for Organ and Orchestra J. S. Bach--The Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue #5 in D J. S. Bach--Suite #3 in D: Air for G String Vivaldi--Concerto in C Major for Two Trumpets (3 movements). jk, what do you think? I believe this is my "starter kit".
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Post by jk on Jun 19, 2021 11:55:55 GMT
I do like the topic title! Pretty complete list there, sockit. You've caught almost all the big names. Although I was first encouraged to explore Bach, I soon made a detour to the man a young Bach walked 200 miles to meet, the organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude, now a member of my alternative "three B's" -- Buxtehude, Berlioz and Berg. In the Bach documentary that introduced me to DB, Johannes Unger, organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck and the tenth in line there after Buxtehude, explained that the church's organ was flanked by six balconies and that Buxtehude had filled these with musicians for works in the so-called 'Colossal Baroque' style such as the thrilling Benedicam Dominum, performed here by the Goteborg Baroque Arts Ensemble and Soloists under Magnus Kjellson: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieterich_Buxtehude
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Post by jk on Jun 19, 2021 12:05:12 GMT
sockit, the upper link in my signature is well worth investigating -- Handel on multi-tracked electric mandolin!
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Post by Kapitan on Jun 19, 2021 12:12:08 GMT
I do like the topic title! It's a great one.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2021 15:03:05 GMT
I do like the topic title! Pretty complete list there, sockit. You've caught almost all the big names. Although I was first encouraged to explore Bach, I soon made a detour to the man a young Bach walked 200 miles to meet, the organist and composer Dieterich Buxtehude, now a member of my alternative "three B's" -- Buxtehude, Berlioz and Berg. In the Bach documentary that introduced me to DB, Johannes Unger, organist at the Marienkirche in Lübeck and the tenth in line there after Buxtehude, explained that the church's organ was flanked by six balconies and that Buxtehude had filled these with musicians for works in the so-called 'Colossal Baroque' style such as the thrilling Benedicam Dominum, performed here by the Goteborg Baroque Arts Ensemble and Soloists under Magnus Kjellson: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dieterich_BuxtehudeVery nice. See I'm learning things already! I am not familiar with Buxtehude at all, but I have heard the name. It's interesting that Bach had a great deal of respect for, and was inspired by a number of fellow composers. In fact the liner notes to one of the albums I acquired mentioned how Pachelbel was one of Bach's inspirations.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2021 17:36:58 GMT
sockit , the upper link in my signature is well worth investigating -- Handel on multi-tracked electric mandolin! That is amazing! I listened to the first track and I'll have to go through the rest at a later time. I've got company right now that I need to get back to...
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Post by jk on Jun 19, 2021 17:54:20 GMT
sockit , the upper link in my signature is well worth investigating -- Handel on multi-tracked electric mandolin! That is amazing! I listened to the first track and I'll have to go through the rest at a later time. I've got company right now that I need to get back to... It's very varied -- no two tracks get the same treatment. Some even veer towards heavy metal!
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Post by jk on Jun 21, 2021 13:33:05 GMT
The 18th-century German composer Christoph Graupner was a new name to me when my "Baroque guru" (the lady with the mandolin) pointed me at him a year ago. Like Bach in the 1830s, Graupner had to wait for rediscovery, in his case well over a century later. There are now plentiful opportunities to hear his music on YouTube. Like Bach, he was incredibly prolific and the vast majority of his works have yet to be recorded. This is his Ouverture-Suite in G minor for 2 Flutes, Strings & Basso Continuo (GWV 470). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christoph_Graupner
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Post by jk on Jun 21, 2021 19:04:10 GMT
Introduced to me by the same source, here is master harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï with a spot of Handel -- a much needed shot of civilization in these uncivilized times. To quote JH: "He gets the baroque thing without going over the top, and is a very sensitive, methodical player." PH (no relation) will be in my neck of the woods in the near future, where I hope to catch him, ticket sales permitting... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Hantaï
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Post by Deleted on Jun 22, 2021 0:30:55 GMT
Introduced to me by the same source, here is master harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï with a spot of Handel -- a much needed shot of civilization in these uncivilized times. To quote JH: "He gets the baroque thing without going over the top, and is a very sensitive, methodical player." PH (no relation) will be in my neck of the woods in the near future, where I hope to catch him, ticket sales permitting... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_HantaïOh, my! It's all trills! Was that the way that piece was written, or is that Mr. Hantaï's arrangement. Very busy, but I like it.
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Post by jk on Jun 22, 2021 17:33:29 GMT
Introduced to me by the same source, here is master harpsichordist Pierre Hantaï with a spot of Handel -- a much needed shot of civilization in these uncivilized times. To quote JH: "He gets the baroque thing without going over the top, and is a very sensitive, methodical player." PH (no relation) will be in my neck of the woods in the near future, where I hope to catch him, ticket sales permitting... Oh, my! It's all trills! Was that the way that piece was written, or is that Mr. Hantaï's arrangement. Very busy, but I like it. Ah, well I looked around and noticed the first piece is an overture to an opera, Il pastor fido. I don't expect you to listen to the whole thing, but from the first few bars you can hear it's a lot simpler and less embellished in the original orchestral version. So in the case of this piece, it's possible Mr. Hantaï laid it on thicker for the reason that it was a transcription. This is really just conjecture on my part... I may quiz JH on it some time. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Il_pastor_fido_(Handel)
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Post by jk on Jun 23, 2021 12:26:38 GMT
Women composers in the Baroque era had a hard time of it (see my thread on the subject at EH). Not the least of it was this incredible notion that music-making by women in those days (and not just then, I fear) was considered "an intellectual asset of a courtesan"! This accusation was certainly levelled at singer and composer Barbara Strozzi, an unmarried mother of four -- one suspects more than a whiff of jealousy in all this, as it transpires that Ms Strozzi was the most published composer of her time, and not just in her home town of Venice. Barbara Strozzi wrote almost entirely secular works for mainly one voice (but sometimes as many as five) and basso continuo. Taken from her one known religious work, Sacri musicale affetti (1655), the motet "Mater Anna" is as much an ode to Anna de Medici as to the mother of the Virgin Mary. Here, the angelic soprano María Cristina Kiehr is accompanied by her ensemble Concerto Souave, who from the description linked below otherwise consists of harp, cello, harpsichord and portative organ, all of which would seem to be playing on this recording: blogs.loc.gov/music/2010/02/concerto-soave/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Strozzi
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Post by jk on Jun 25, 2021 9:15:57 GMT
This is another I lifted from down the road (Bach used to do this all the time): Here's an early Italian Baroque composer who has taken my fancy of late. Girolamo Frescobaldi wrote mainly keyboard music and some vocal works. From what I've read about him, his one excursion into music for instrumental ensembles was this collection of canzonas -- and very colourful they are too. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Frescobaldi
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Post by Deleted on Jul 4, 2021 14:10:50 GMT
Certain parts of The Four Seasons are utilized quite a bit in movies (and much of Vivaldi's other works) as a backdrop to uppercrust society or college scenes, it's almost become a cliché. This is a refreshing take and I found it quite enjoyable.
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Post by jk on Jul 15, 2021 10:42:05 GMT
This is what Bach sounded like in the late '50s, early '60s, a decade before the "early music movement" arrived on the scene and thinned things out. (I think JH would shoot me for describing it this way!) This is "Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust" from the cantata of the same name (No. 170, BWV 170), with Szymon Goldberg conducting the Nederlands Kamer Orkest. Soloist Aafje Heynis is without doubt the greatest contralto the Netherlands has yet produced: www.bach-cantatas.com/Bio/Heynis-Aafje.htm
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