Go for Baroque - Greatest Hits of the 1700s! and 44 similar items

Catalog Number: VICS-1687 Condition Details: Vinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Cover looks great; a few creases near edges; light-scuffing, slight discoloration with darker discoloration spots, and surface impressions (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (generic white). Spine is mostly easy-to-read with wear. Minor shelf-wear along top/bottom-edge; some wear to corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.) Tracks: Xerxes: Largo (Georg Friedrich Handel ) Canon In D For Strings And Continuo (Johann Pachelbel ) The Well Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude And Fugue No. 3 In C-Sharp (Johann Sebastian Bach ) The Four Seasons: Concerto In F Minor, Op. 8 No. 4 (Winter) II. Largo (Antonio Vivaldi ) Concerto In C Minor For Oboe, Strings And Continuo: II. Adagio (Benedetto Marcello ) Water Music: Air (Georg Friedrich Handel ) Judas Maccabaeus: See, The Conquering Hero Comes (Georg Friedrich Handel ) Adagio In G Minor For Strings And Organ (Tomaso Albinoni ) Concerto In D For Two Mandolins, P. 16: II. Andante (Antonio Vivaldi ) Concerto No. 13 In F For Organ And Orcherstra (The Cuckoo And The Nightingale): II. Allegro (Georg Friedrich Handel ) The Well Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude And Fugue No. 5 In D (Johann Sebastian Bach ) Suite No. 3 In D, S.1068 II. Air (Johann Sebastian Bach ) About The Record: In music the normal use of the word baroque has come to cover everything composed between the time Monteverdi to about the middle of the 18th century, when the elder Bach died. In this period the search for new forms sped the development of the opera in the theater, the cantana and oratorio in the church, the suite and the concerto grosso in the concert chamber.String music developed also in response to the incredible degree of craftsmanship attained by such masters as Stradivari and Guarneri: keyboard flourished together with the art of organ and harpsichord builders. It was a period in which music was by far the most exciting of all the arts. Composers composed, listeners listened, and rival enlightened despots of a hundred ducal courts out did each other in their efforts to sign up and hang on to outstanding talent. From this fertile period GO FOR BAROQUE! is a broad sampling, which includes the following works: Handel's Largo, Pachelbel's canon, the Well-Tempered Clavier, and Vivaldi's Four Seasons among others.