baroque music thread (and 'mystery sonatas' etc)

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wz reading tony conrad on the 'mystery sonatas' from heinrich biber (see sleeve notes to his 'four violins' piece from '64)...I'll look out for a disc but here's where you skool me on anything baroque.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

Oh! Oh! I have a lovely Baroque CD which I got for a pound at Oxfam, but it's not to hand and I never remember names.

The best thing about early Baroque music is the names of the instruments. I mean, you can have serenades for the King's Sackbutts!

I want to play the Sackbutt!

― Masonic Cathedral (kate), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:29 (twenty years ago)

I have quite a few scratchy old Monteverdi records, you can always find those on the cheap. He's sort of a link between the Renaissance and the Baroque and methinks wrote one of the earliest surving operas. Especially liked one collection called IIRC something like Madrigals in the Time of Love & War with some nice stirring bass singing on it plus some very pretty melodies, I think it's the edition on Supraphon.

I like some of Purcell's more strident, militaristic pieces too (anything with lots of bombastic drums on! Though maybe that veres away from being strictly Baroque). Can't abide the man Handel though, rather too pompous for me. Sorry, I'm being hopelessly non-technical about this, I just throw this stuff on every once in a while.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:44 (twenty years ago)

Julio, this isn't really on topic I guess but have you ever heard Manuel de Falla's "Concerto for Harpsichord, Flute, Oboe" blah blah blah? I recommend it.

― RS £aRue (rockist_scientist), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

anything by bach is usually quite good.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

Bach is the bollocks for real. Search out his motets, they're beastly and wonderful.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

Yes, and if you enjoy his keyboard pieces, you may also enjoy the organ works of Dietrich Buxtehude, one of Bach's teachers. I know I do.

― W i l l (common_person), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 16:44 (twenty years ago)

any fugue written by Bach is easily more concise, complicated, and intellectually stimulating than any other piece ever written by anybody. ever. they are perfect.

― lemin (lemin), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 18:24 (twenty years ago)

Search out [Bach's] motets, they're beastly and wonderful.

100 x otm! (I guess you mean beastly to sing? That one "des! des!" bit in mvt 1 of no 1 has always thrown me when I've tried.)

― OleM (OleM), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 21:18 (twenty years ago)

WENDY CARLOS - SWITCHED-ON BACH

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 22:01 (twenty years ago)

They are beastly to sing but they are also MONSTROUS to listen to and will devour your soul in the best possible way.

― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 9 March 2005 22:06 (twenty years ago)

twelve years pass...

when Italian baroque composers steal my posting style:

In 1640, Pietro Della Valle published Della musica dell'età nostra che non è punto inferiore, anzi è migliore di quella dell'età passata, in English About the Music of our Time, which is not Worse but Better than that of Previous Ages

― mark s, Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:17 (seven years ago)

"good not bad"

― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 27 January 2018 12:36 (seven years ago)

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