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Johann Sebastian Bach - The Musical Offering {Musikalisches Opfer}

Robert Kohnen (harpsichord), Barthold Kuijken (flute), Sigiswald Kuijken (violin),
Wieland Kuijken (viola da gamba) , Year of recording: 1994

Bach's The Musical Offering consists of 16 movements and is about 50 minutes in duration, resulting from a
challenge to develop a theme played for the composer by Frederick the Great. The meeting took place on 7
May 1747, and Bach's son, Carl Philipp Emmanuel, who often accompanied Frederick in performances of
chamber music, arranged for the two men to meet. By then, J.S. Bach, "the old Bach of Leipzig," was
considered as a writer of old-fashioned music, but his improvising skills were still legendary. Frederick,
the King of Prussia, did not approve of overly complicated music, clearly preferring the fashionable galant
style to the complicated fugues of high Baroque music. In an apparent attempt to confound the old master ,
the monarch offered an awkward chromatic subject for the elderly composer to improvise upon, and was
amazed by Bach's handling of this "Royal Theme."  Afterward, the improviser insisted that he still had
not done the theme justice, and that he would endeavor to do so. Later that year, The Musical Offering
appeared in print, dedicated to Frederick the Great, and published at the composer's own expense. It
demonstrates the full arsenal of the Baroque composer of fugues and does it with more fluency than any
other composer of the time would have been able to provide.Of course, it takes into account the monarch's
passion for flute playing and offers a prominent part for the instrument.

L'Estro Armonico Concertos, Op.3 | Fabio Biondi Europa

0:00:00 Concerto No.2 for 2 violins, cello and strings in G minor RV578
0:09:10 Concerto No.1 for 4 violins and strings in D major RV549
0:17:15 Concerto No.6 for violin and strings in A minor RV356
0:24:34 Concerto No.5 for 2 violins and strings in A major RV519
0:32:15 Concerto No.4 for 4 violins and strings in E minor RV550
0:39:20 Concerto No.3 for violin and strings in G major RV310
0:46:19 Concerto No.8 for 2 violins and strings in A minor RV522
0:55:28 Concerto No.7 for 4 violins, cello and strings in F major RV567
1:03:55 Concerto No.11 for 2 violins, cello and strings in D minor RV565
1:21:00 Concerto No.10 for 4 violins, cello and strings in B minor RV580
1:30:03 Concerto No.12 for violin and strings in E major RV265

Vivaldi - The Four Seasons "Winter" / Le Quattro Stagioni "L'inverno" (Il Giardino Armonico)

Le Quattro Stagioni  , Concerto No.4 "L'inverno" in fa minore, RV 297
per Violino, Archi e Basso Continuo.
Enrico Onofri, Baroque Violin
Il Giardino Armonico
Giovanni Antonini.

J. S. BACH - Concerto for four harpsichords in A minor 1/3

Concerto for four harpsichords in A minor
(BWV 1065) Ton Koopman.
The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra

Mozart: Requiem / Abbado · Berliner Philharmoniker
Requiem K626 Pt 10 of 13 Domine Jesu Christie AAM Hogwood
Offertorium 1. Jordi Savall - Le Concert Des Nations
Offertorium 1. Nikolaus Harnoncourt - Concentus Musicus Wien
Offertorium 1. John Eliot Gardiner - English Baroque Soloists Monteverdi Choir


Bizet: Carmen / Terfel · Abbado · Berliner Philharmoniker

1077 Leonhardt Consort

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Contrapunto primo e secondo; Vincenzo Galilei, 1584.
V.Galilei -- Saltarello (self duet)

Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord) J.S. Bach BWV 904, 914, 992 996, 998 

B7 II Zinman

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