Discover Baroque

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1. Chapter 1: Enter the Players - 02:07:00
2. Individuality - 01:14:00
3. Italy: The Cradle of the Baroque - 01:34:00
4. Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op. 6, No. 12, HWV 330: III. Larghetto, e piano - Variatio - 03:45:59
5. Instrumental Development and Choral Virtuosity - 00:31:00
6. Violin Sonata No. 1 in G minor, BWV 1001: I. Adagio - 03:26:59
7. This change is especially dramatic… - 00:17:00
8. Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K. 120/L.215/P.146: Allegrissimo - 04:11:00
9. Many regard the choral music of J.S. Bach… - 00:27:00
10. Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen, BWV 51: Aria: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen! - 04:39:00
11. It's time now to go back to the early seventeenth century… - 00:26:00
12. Il salmo Miserere mei Deus - 10:12:59
13. Chapter 2: The Beginnings – Italy - 02:10:59
14. Sacrae symphoniae: Sonata pian' e forte, alla quarta bassa, a 8 - 05:06:00
15. The contribution to music of the next great Italian composer… - 02:21:00
16. Vespers of the Blessed Virgin: Domine ad adiuvandum - 02:07:00
17. When Monteverdi's patron died in 1612… - 04:54:00
18. Mein junges Leben hat ein End, SwWV 324 - 06:20:00
19. As well as being an outstanding composer… - 02:46:00
20. La, la, la, je ne l'ose dire - 02:08:00
21. Well now, from the engaging work of a minor composer… - 02:10:00
22. Psalmen Davids sampt etlichen Moteten und Concerten, Op. 2: Jauchzet dem Herren, alle Welt, SWV 36, "Psalm 100" - 05:01:59
23. In 1625 Schutz was stricken by the death of his wife… - 03:06:59
24. England - 02:03:00
25. Royal Consort in D major for 2 theorbos: V. Ecco - 02:59:00
26. When civil war broke out in England… - 00:54:00

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1. Chapter 3: The Fashion Spreads – Different Styles for Different Lands - 00:42:00
2. Development of Dance Suites - 01:32:59
3. Major, Minor and Modulation - 01:41:00
4. Italy: The Land of Song - 03:47:59
5. O di Betlemme, altera poverta: Aria: L'Autor d'ogni mio bene - 04:02:00
6. The Violin - 03:22:00
7. Sonata in D major a 8 viole con una tromba: I. Allegro - 01:27:59
8. Stradella, incidentally, while not in the first division… - 01:27:59
9. Germany - 01:52:59
10. Membra Jesu nostri, BuxWV 75: III. Ad manus: Quid sunt plagae istae - 01:59:00
11. Some years younger than Buxtehude was Johann Pachelbel… - 00:56:00
12. Toccata in C major - 02:21:59
13. France - 03:18:59
14. Benedictus: Benedictus - 04:11:00
15. Less formal in his approach to composition… - 00:47:59
16. Un flambeau, Janette, Isabelle!, H. 460c - 03:24:00
17. French Keyboard Music - 04:05:00
18. England - 01:59:00
19. Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z. 15 - 02:50:00
20. In 1683 came the first of Purcell's Odes for St Cecilia's Day… - 01:52:59
21. Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: When I am laid in earth - 03:47:59
22. A few years later, at the end of the freezing winter of 1695… - 00:44:00
23. Chapter 4: Full Flower – High Baroque - 01:38:00
24. Italy - 01:11:00
25. Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8, "Christmas Concerto": VI. Pastorale - 03:53:00
26. Born near Bologna, Corelli began to learn the violin… - 02:51:00
27. Flute Concerto in D major, Op. 10, No. 3, RV 428, "Il gardellino": I. Allegro - 03:54:00
28. It must have been the public thirst for novelty… - 01:00:59
29. Beatus vir in C major, RV 597: Beatus vir qui timet Dominum - 03:00:00
30. It seems as if Vivaldi became restless… - 00:58:00

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1. Baroque Concertos Beyond Vivaldi - 07:25:59
2. Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.380/L.23/P.483: Andante comodo - 05:03:00
3. By contrast, the Sonata in D major, K. 96 is much more rapid… - 00:40:00
4. Keyboard Sonata in D major, K. 96/L.465/P.210: Allegrissimo - 04:52:59
5. Germany - 01:45:59
6. Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV 550 - 08:10:00
7. Although he appeared to have been comfortable enough… - 02:03:59
8. Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F major, BWV 1047: III. Allegro assai - 02:39:59
9. At least two of Bach's four Orchestral Suites… - 01:39:00
10. The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1: Prelude and Fugue No. 16 in G minor, BWV 861 - 03:29:00
11. One vocal work to emerge from Bach's secular years… - 00:31:00
12. Weichet nur, betrubte Schatten, BWV 202, "Wedding Cantata": Aria: Sich uben im Lieben - 04:56:00
13. It was on his return from a visit to Karlsbad… - 04:27:59
14. St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Part III: Chorus: Wir setzen uns mit Tranen nieder - 06:33:59
15. There were consolations in Bach's difficult time in Leipzig… - 00:36:00
16. Keyboard Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo - 02:57:59
17. Towards the end of the seventeenth century… - 02:33:00
18. German Opera - 04:48:00
19. Overture (Suite) in D major, TWV 55:D15: VIII. Rejouissance - 02:24:00
20. Telemann has sometimes been accused of superficiality… - 00:31:00

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1. France - 02:26:00
2. Pieces de clavecin, Book 1: 1st Ordre in G minor-major: Les Sentiments - 03:45:59
3. Further on in the same suite… - 00:13:00
4. Pieces de clavecin, Book 1: 1st Ordre in G minor-major: La Manon - 01:25:59
5. In 1716, at the height of his fame and success… - 02:44:00
6. Abaris ou les Boreades: Gavotte pour les Fleures et les Zephirs - 03:42:59
7. Unfortunately, the opera was never produced… - 01:14:00
8. VII. Musette en rondeau - 03:06:00
9. VIII. Tambourin - 01:13:00
10. England - 02:51:59
11. Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act II: Aria: Lascia ch'io pianga - 04:36:59
12. Back in Hanover the following summer… - 02:12:00
13. Acis and Galatea, HWV 49, Act II: Aria: O ruddier than the cherry - 03:04:59
14. Italian opera at this time was all the rage in London… - 02:33:00
15. Keyboard Suite No. 7 in G minor, HWV 432: VI. Passacaille - 04:41:00
16. As the public wearied of temperamental divas and castrati… - 02:50:00
17. Messiah, HWV 56, Part I: For unto a child is born - 04:05:59
18. Strange to say, Messiah was not so well received… - 01:34:00
19. Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op. 6, No. 10, HWV 328: VI. Allegro moderato - 01:41:59
20. Handel surely sensed that the musical world… - 04:43:59
21. Coda - 01:23:00

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