Baroqur Festival

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Cat No: 8550104

Release Date: 12 January 2000

Label: Naxos - Nxc / Naxos Classics

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

No of Units: 1

Barcode: 4891030501041

Genres: Classical

Composer/Series: BAROQUR FESTIVAL

Description
Baroque FestivalThe third disc in the Naxos Baroque series isdevoted principally to music by Telemann, Handel and Vivaldi. The collectionopens, however, with music that has won enormous popularity in recent years,the Canon and Gigue by the Nuremberg composer Johann Pachelbel. The Canonconsists of a series of 28 variations over a short repeated bass figure, scoredfor three violins and basso continuo. Pachelbel, among the most distinguishedProtestant composers of his time in Germany, was born in Nuremberg and returnedthere in 1695 as organist of the principal church of the city, having rejectedan earlier invitation to move to Oxford.Giuseppe Sammartini, brother of the betterknown Giovanni Battista Sammartini, was one of the eight sons of a Frenchoboist and his Italian wife and was born in Milan in 1695. With his brothers heperformed as an oboist and after 1728 made his home in England, where he waswell known as a performer and as a composer, serving as music master to thePrincess of Wales and her children from 1736. He had a strong influence onEnglish oboe-playing and his compositions, published posthumously, were held ingreat esteem for a considerable time. The slow movement of his F major RecorderConcerto, in the key of A minor, is a gently pastoral Siciliano.It is in relatively recent years that AntonioVivaldi has been given something of his due. Born in Venice in 1678, the son ofa musician, he became a priest, teaching the violin and later serving as masterof music at the Ospedale della Pieta, one of the tour charitable foundationsestablished in Venice for theeducation of girls, whether orphans, illegitimate or indigent, and boasting thestrongest musical traditions. Vivaldi's employment at the Pieta wasintermittent, but involved him, by an agreement of 1723, in the provision oftwo concertos a month for his pupils, further swelling a body of work that wasalready considerable. He was, at the same time, involved in work in theopera-house, as composer, performer and manager, and added significantly to therepertoire of church music. As a violinist he possessed a phenomenal technique,the wonder of all who saw and heard him, and may be credited with significantdevelopments in the form of the solo concerto.The present collection includes five excerptsfrom longer compositions by Vivaldi. The first is taken from a concerto for solo violin, strings andcontinuo published in Amsterdam in 1729/30 as the first in a set of six suchconcertos. The second is the slow movement of one of the four A minor concertosVivaldi wrote for the cello, and the third a movement from a C major concertowritten for flautino, now generally thought to be a sopranino recorder. Thefourth excerpt is taken from a C minor concerto for alto recorder and the fifthfrom a concerto for oboe now transcribed for trumpet.Georg Philipp Telemann, god-father of Bach'sson Carl Philipp Emanuel, was director of music in Hamburg for the greater partof his career, controlling the music in the five prin
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