Capella - BAROQUE FAVOURITES [CD]

Baroque Favourites See here the conqu'rlng hero comes (JudasMaccabaeus) - George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759) 1st movement: Allegro motto (The FourSeasons: Winter) - Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) Eslst eln Ros entsprungen (The World'sFair Rose) - Michael Praetorlus (c. 1571 - 1621) 2nd movement (Trumpet Concerto) - GiuseppeTorelli (1658 - 1709) Nun komm der Helden Helland (Come,Redeemer of Our Race) - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Slow movement (Oboe Concerto) - GeorgeFrideric Handel (1685 - 1759) In dulcl jubilo - Johann Sebastian Bach(1685 - 1750) Fast movement (Guitar Concerto) - AntonioVivaldi (1678 - 1741) Hornpipe (Concerto grosso Op. 6 No.7) -George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759) Pastorale BWV 590 - Johann Sebastian Bach(1685 - 1750)2nd movement: Vivace (Trumpet Concerto InD) - George Frideric Handel (1685 - 1759) 2nd movement: Largo (The Four Seasons:Spring) - Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) Chorus from Cantata BWV 140 (Wachetauf) -Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750) Sonata No.87 - Domenico Scarlatti (1685 -1747) O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden (O SacredHead sore wounded) - Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750)Any collection of popular Baroque musicmust concentrate on the later years of the period. In particular attention mustfall on the great German composers Johann Sebastian Bach and George FridericHandel, on the Italian violinist-composer Antonio Vivaldi, and, to a morelimited extent, on Domenico Scarlatti, the Italian harpsichordist, who spentthe greater part of his career in Portugal and Spain.The present collection includes only oneexample of music from the early seventeenth century, Es ist ein Rosentsprungen (The World's Fair Rose). The melody and the original words arefrom the fifteenth century and appear in the Speierschen Gesangbuch of 1600.Praetorius, among the leading German Lutheran composers of his time, publishedhis four-part arrangement of the carol in 1609 as part of his Musae Sionae,a varied collection of Lutheran church music.The period generally known as MiddleBaroque, a convenient if over-simplified label to cover the years of the secondhalf of the seventeenth century, is represented here by an excerpt from atrumpet concerto by the Italian composer Giuseppe Torelli, a musician ofhistorical importance in the development of the concerto. Torelli was born inVerona and was associated intermittently with the musical establishment at thebasilica of San Petronio in Bologna, with a brief intervening period in theservice of the Margrave of Brandenburg at Ansbach.AntonioVivaldi was born in Venice in 1678, the son of a barber, who combined his craftwith that of violinist. Vivaldi was ordained a priest and was to spend much ofhis life as a member of the musical establishment of the Ospedale della Piet?á,a charitable foundation for the education of illegitimate or indigent girls.The Piet?á, one of four such institutions in Venice, enjoyed a high reputationamong Venetians and the many visitors to the city for its music, and Vivaldiw