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Bach's 'Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major' (BWV 1048)
1. Allegro moderato (2. Adagio)
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra - 5:54





Bach's 'Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major' (BWV 1048)
3. Allegro
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra - 4:38

What a great idea. If you don't like Baroque music .. you suck.

Here's some Telemann

Here's some Tartini

By the way, please crank all of this shit to like 11 or beyond because you need to hear it loud..

L'Orfeo is a lovely opera composed at around the early 1600's. Pretty accessible too me thinks :)!

Damn, these are great!!! Itzhak Perlman is a wonderful violinist!

What a rush!

I had never heard this version of Corelli's "La Folia" before, skaltezon. I feel it is wonderful...the best I've ever heard. Your friend who introduced this piece to you must be a sensitive "soul" with excellent taste! ;)

The song makes me fall in love with the violin all over again and with the fact that people make and enjoy such music. I love it when a piece causes you to feel as if you yourself are the violin vibrating when the bow is drawn over you, giving you delightful chills...which I feel at many places when listening to this piece but especially after 2:47 as the bass notes become so frenzied. I also like the contrasts in the piece, in which the placid ocean whips up to stormy waves so quickly that it's quite a trip.

Manfredo Kraemer, the violinist according to the YouTube notes, has a delicate yet strong, rasping touch, doesn't he? I'd never heard him play before, but now I want to search him out.

The video you posted is actually part I of Corelli's "La Folia." Here is part II, in case you want to hear the conclusion. Lovely thread idea, btw!

Corelli's 'La Folia' Violin Sonata in D Minor, Part II

Baroque music for guitar: Gaspar Sanz. Two short (but great) vids: Canarios played by a young John Williams in 1975, and Españoletas played by Pepe Romero:



AMERICAN BAROQUE anyone? I mean from the American continent. :) Manuel de Sumaya (Mexico, 1678-1755) and Tomás de Torrejón (composer of the first opera of the Americas: The Blood of the Rose, Peru, 1701):

Bach's Brandenburg Concerto *is* lovely, skaltezon.

The players in the two videos you posted are much more animated than I usually see in chamber orchestras. I enjoyed watching them more than a regular orchestra because the players' individual personalities are more pronounced.

You can also see them interacting with each other: they are really playing...not just playing an instrument, but playing together. The sort of play you mean when you're a child and ask a friend, "Do you want to come over to play?"

I hadn't thought of there being American Baroque! Thanks for sharing these, Zaqarbal. I particularly liked this video of John Williams that you posted. I'm always pleased to see male classical guitarists who defy social male-female gender conventions for the sake of their music by growing their own picks! :p

Here's a pretty harp piece that is tearfully and plaintively pretty in places: Handel's Harp concerto in B flat major, HWV 294. If you start listening at 3:42, you'll hear what I feel is one of the sweetest passages in any piece of music at 3:48, and again you hear it at 5:30.

Handel, Harp concerto in B flat major, Op. 4/6, HWV 294

And to complete the instruments' review... the keyboards. Domenico Scarlatti. And his main follower Antonio Soler, "the Franz Listz of the harpsichord". Scott Ross playing both:

Since no-one but me really cares about the flute (:p:) I'll share some beautiful flute music composed during the Baroque period. I have the sheet music for a lot of these pieces :)

Vivaldi - Flute Concerto in D Major, RV 428


Vivaldi - Flute Concerto in A Minor, RV 440


Vivaldi - Flute Concerto in C Minor, RV 441


Vivaldi - Flute Concerto in G Minor, RV 439