#baroque composer

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) - Come Ye Sons of Art (Birthday Ode for Queen Mary) , Z.323/5: "Strike the Viol, Touch the Lute" ·

Tim Mead ·

Arcangelo Corelli 12 Concerti Grossi Op.6, SCO, Bohdan Warchal

A brilliant compilation of Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerti Grossi! I must listen to more of Corelli, because his influence on not just the Italian, but wider Baroque, is greatly underrated today. 

Hi and thank you for the ask (this is mod speaking btw - I won’t let Viv answer this one lol)! I just want to apologize for the delay oof I’ve been so busy lately and I didn’t want to half-ass my answer either. I’ll be recommending some pieces of Vivaldi’s from an array of genres and including a YouTube link for you~

Here is a playlist of just everything I mentioned here so you don’t have to read all of this if you don’t want to lol

The four seasons are great and all (and that’s how I initially got hooked on Viv), but there is so much more to him omg there really is!!

When recommending Vivaldi pieces, one must always begin with the violin concerti, because as a virtuoso of the violin, that was his focus~ 

From his Opus 3, there’s RV 356, RV 580, RV 310, and in Opus 4, there’s RV 279, RV 249, RV 247 oh and here’s a great one from Opus 9: RV 391; and there are so many more and hhhhh it’s so hard to stop because he published 12 whole opuses of gorgeous music oof - but here are a few good ones not belonging to an opus: RV 110, RV 552, RV 151

While on the subject of concerti, he also composed for instruments other than the violin (big shocker ikr lol) like the cello: RV 406, RV 422, RV 531; the bassoon: RV 499, RV 500; the oboe: RV 455, RV 460, (this is actually in Opus 11); the flute: RV 432; the mandolin: RV 532; even the organ: RV 541

Now for the sonatas, the best (in my opinion) is RV 63 (la follia), and then there’s RV 36, RV 72, RV 40 which are also amazing

And that was the instrumental stuff, now onto the vocal stuff~~

Here’s some sacred music: Lauda Jerusalem (RV 609), Cum Dederit (Nisi Dominus, RV 608), Sileant Zephyri (Filiae maestae Jerusalem,  RV 638), Gloria in Excelsis Deo (Gloria, RV 588 or 589)

A few cantatas: Ah, ch'infelice sempre (Cessate omai cessate, RV 684), Passo de pena in pena (Amor hai vinto, RV 651)

Viv composed a shit ton of operas and I’m just saying that it’s going to be hard to narrow it down to just a few arias, but I’m gonna try: Gelido in ogni vena (Il Farnace), Rabbia che accendesi (Tito Manlio), Ah fuggi rapido (Orlando Furioso), Armatae face et anguibus (Juditha Trimphans - not an opera, but awesome), Ne vostri dolci sguardi (La verità in cimento)

It took a lot of self control to not go any further than this, you have absolutely no idea how much bigger this post could’ve been if I had not stopped myself because Viv just really went off when composing music like that man just didn’t stop and it’s all so good and I love him so much hhhhh