There was a wave throughout the 20th century of compositions based on old Baroque frameworks, either by taking the form of a Baroque suite, by utilizing rhythms or textures from Baroque music, using Baroque instruments like the harpsichord, or otherwise. I find much of this music fascinating, and I want to hear more of it.
Some neo-baroque works that come to mind include:
Dmitri Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues op.87
Arnold Schoenberg: Suite for piano, op.25
Peter Warlock: Capriol Suite
Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin
Heitor Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras
Paul Hindemith: Ludus Tonalis
Stravinsky's Dumbarton Oaks is one of the major works in this genre, also Bartok's Divertimento for String Orchestra. Debussy's Cello Sonata and Two Arabesques have some neo-Baroque elements in them.
The Neo-Baroque wave has continued into the present century with the works of Spanish composer and Vivaldi scholar, Pablo Queipo de Llano. He is a member of Vox Sæculorum and The Delian Society, international societies devoted to the recreation of Baroque Music.
This is nice, but sounds more so baroque pastiche than neo-baroque. Also, is this a midi rendering or a real performance? I can't tell. Anyway, this kind of thing could be pertinent to my interest too so long as it's well-executed.
From the notes, the pieces are conceived as a series of discussions between an antique cello and a modern piano, the topics for the discussions being (I) general allusions to Bach's unaccompanied cello sarabandes and gigues, and the études of Jean Louis Duport (II) Giuseppe Cenci's lament Dunque Clorinde (III) Domenico Gabrieli's 5th ricercar . . . I'll post the rest if anyone's interested.
Reger - 6 Preludes and Fugues for Piano, op. 99
Franz Schmidt - Chaconne for Orchestra
Stravinsky - Piano Sonata (1924); Duo Concertante for Violin and Piano
Tippett - Concerto for Double String Orchestra
I, love those fugal movements from the Bachianas Brasilieras. Just perfection. Even though the "Bach" is in the name and the goal is to blend Baroque style with Brazillian, I'm not sure I get the Baroque connection in the other movements, even though they're labeled "Tocatta" and "Giga" and so forth. Doesn't really matter though, they're still amazing.
Ernest Bloch's two concerti grosso are both fantastic for early-mid 20th c. Howard Hanson's old Mercury recording with the Eastman-Rochester orch. are still among the best.
Michael Nyman is a baroque musicologist and some of his compsitions are based on melodies or harmonic progressions of baroque music: Purcell in Chasing Sheep is Best Left to Shepherds, Croft in An Eye for Optical Theory, Couperin in Come unto these yellow sands, and so on.
Ha! Great stuff. Monkey Island 3 sounds like a mishmash of Baroque and Rennaisance pastiche, and the other like Baroque meets English folk music circa Robin Hood.
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