Thread: The essential Baroque collection

I'm a big fan of Carissimi

Originally Posted by jhar26

I would recommend his opera L'Orfeo, Monteverdi's first and the oldest surviving opera in history.

I can heartily second that DVD endorsement.

For pure listening I get an even bigger thrill from Vespro della beata vergine (a.k.a The 1610 Vespers, or Vêpres de la Vierge). I get a chill up my spine in almost any version I hear. The long phrases and voice leading, while firmly rooted in the traditions of sacred music, still seem a little unpredictable to me today. They seem to wander astray momentarily until you think, "Where is he going with this phrase?" But then of course he brings it back home in the following phrase. He must have driven people nuts in his day.

Originally Posted by xJuanx

I agree about Pachelbel; I think he hasn't delivered an important amount of work as composers like Bach or Telemann. But the popularity of his Kanon, is what leads to think he was perhaps a crucial baroque composer.

Actually, I'd recommend his organ works, which are quite rockin'.

Yes, the reason I mentioned Pachelbel was because of the popularity of Kannon. It's one of those peices that most people recognize even if they have no knowledge of music, kind of like Beethoven's fifth or nineth. Gotta love those Looney Tunes!

Hm, not sure why no one have mentioned Boismortier and Weiss. I think that they have to be a part of any serious (or essential) baroque collection.

Originally Posted by Weston

I can heartily second that DVD endorsement.

For pure listening I get an even bigger thrill from Vespro della beata vergine (a.k.a The 1610 Vespers, or Vêpres de la Vierge). I get a chill up my spine in almost any version I hear. The long phrases and voice leading, while firmly rooted in the traditions of sacred music, still seem a little unpredictable to me today. They seem to wander astray momentarily until you think, "Where is he going with this phrase?" But then of course he brings it back home in the following phrase. He must have driven people nuts in his day.

I saw this staging live in Barcelona. This is a great recording, and the staging is beautiful. But I would recommend another recording, this one:



A film is more interesting to see at home than a stage scene, and the singers a little better, I prefer SAvall's reading, but overall I prefer Harnoncourt-Ponelle.

I'm a big fan of Monteverdi, and would recommend also this recording:



The Madrigals are a little harder to love, but the recompense is very high. Adro Avvampo, Il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, Il lamento della Ninfa, are one of the most beautiful pieces ever written.

Here's a list of some lesser-knowns... w/ youtube links for you to sample. These are mostly German, Bohemian/Czhec, French, English and Italian composers from the Mid-Baroque Stylus Phantasticus to the High Baroque / Late Baroque period. *Pls click "more info" to find out more of the album... enjoy relistening !!! :-)


Heinrich Ignaz Franz von BIBER - Sonata Representativa (sonata representatio avium - the Nightingale, the Cuckoo, the Frog, the Cock and Hen, the Quail, the Cat, the Musketeer's March) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VXcuaHwpac&fmt=18

E major sonata - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYh8I0Cl8jk&fmt=18

Biber's 15 Mystery Sonatas in Scordatura - Sonata 1 - The Annunciation (in normal violin tuning) in C http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNeHa2aE5s&fmt=18


Jean-Ferry Rebel - Les Elémens - Le Cahos (the elements, chaos) a "shocking" composition at the time (1737)
The Palladian Ensemble - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK13g3twALc&fmt=18

Goëbel & Musica Antiqua Köln - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxCLTxQypDo&fmt=18

The Academy of Ancient Music - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcqWRMQp9eo&fmt=18


Johann Heinrich Schmelzer -
Vnarvm Fidivm, Sonata Qvarta - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GP09Fqqo9iM


La Mattacina http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qOvpnCR_wY


Cuckoo - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JaIFiGEc9UA


Nicola Matteis - diverse bizzarie sopra la vecchia sarabanda

version by Rachel Podger - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FE9M32dbjeI

version by Amandine Beyer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0kdoiP9XeA&fmt=18

Violin Ayres & pieces - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bx3-ADqHAqM


Buxtehude violin sonata in B flat Major http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TscD-PGw6E

Pisendel


Tartini - devil's trille w/o basso continuo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MQWLBdwmx4&fmt=18
by Miss Banchini - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqtwB6V3B4g


Corelli - Christmas Concerto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wov_EpyRl-Q&fmt=18
The English Concert - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xsDlgQcZUE


Uccellini - la Bergamasca http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQywhloSBlE



Ariosti Viola d'Amore Sonata in E minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vd7ZA6ZfLoc&fmt=18

Ariosti Viola d'Amore Sonata in G minor http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfdxoR4-AXI&fmt=18


Pietro Locatelli - his famous op. 3 - no. 1 in D http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1BHpgQVqFs

Locatelli sonata No. 4 Op. 8 in C http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qufl-S6k46E

Locatelli violin sonata No. 5 in G - Allegro http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWeClZI9m9c


Michel Corrette - organ concerto http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLLlk7Vmi0


Georg Muffat - Chaconne http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcIs6SS2qb8


Marin Marais - Le Tableau de l'Opération de la Taille (chart of a waist operation [blader stone operation]) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_-K_o3x-f4&fmt=18

Marin Marais - Le Jeu du Volant (badminton game) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuPBrZu6DRI


Pergolesi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3c3P14k5RI


Jean-Marie LeClaire - op. 9 violin sonata http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5O_9xu5oA8


Pandolfi - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gRWlVqD3NA

Henry Purcell - fantasia upon a ground http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsN4JDqP-OI


Zelenka - Hypochondriac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cacwIY-K2vw
Hasse


Telemann - Tree Frogs - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Fdg9FKgeaA&fmt=18


Chedeville - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0giQC7fMrk

Triemer

Besozzi

Cazzati

Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe - Concert à Deux Violes Esgales «Le Retour» [concert for two equal violes "the return"] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARnq0drTFdY


Cavalli http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lh9T-CEw0RA

Stradella

Francesco Maria Veracini capriccio in A
by Miss Wallfisch - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSGiiGG53_M

by Mr. Holloway - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-AnCJAXqtc


Veracini menuet http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPuidLeRjMU

Veracini cotillion http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdfEZQYRRMA

Veracini Toccata- Adagio, E Come Sta-Presto-Adagio http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMUYDVWrbjk


Jean-Philippe Rameau - La Lapoplinière http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNqHqzmAT_0

Here's a pre-Bach Passacaglia ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfTg8CVOTdc&fmt=18

Herr Goëbel playing Biber von Bibern