Arcangelo Corelli - 6 Concerti Grossi op.6 - T. Pinnock, The English Concert
Arcangelo Corelli - 6 Concerti Grossi op.6 - T. Pinnock, The English Concert
Classical | APE + Cue | 1 CD, covers, booklet | 352 MB RS
Archiv 1988
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
6 Concerti Grossi op.6
Recordings: London, Henry Wood Hall, 3-4/1987; London, Abbey Road Studios, 1/1988 (no.12)
Orchestra - The English Concert
Directed from the harpsichord by Trevor Pinnock
Tracklisting:
01-05 Concerto no.12 in F major [10' 16"]
06-10 Concerto no.3 in C minor [9' 53"]
11-17 Concerto no.1 in D major [11' 38"]
18-23 Concerto no.8 in G minor [14' 04"] (Christmas Concert)
24-29 Concerto no.7 in D major [9' 21"]
30-35 Concerto no.11 in B flat major [9' 40"]
Total time: 65' 19"
Although Corelli was not the inventor of the Concerto Grosso principle, it was he who proved the potentialities of the form, popularized it, and wrote the first great music for it. Through his efforts, it achieved the same pre-eminent place in the baroque period of musical history that the symphony did in the classical period. Without Corelli's successful models, it would have been impossible for Vivaldi, Handel, and Bach to have given us their Concerto Grosso masterpieces.
The Concerto Grosso form is built on the principle of contrasting two differently sized instrumental groups. In Corelli's, the smaller group consists of two violins and a cello, and the larger of a string orchestra. Dynamic markings in all the music of this period were based on the terrace principle; crescendo and diminuendi are unknown, contrasts between forte and piano and between the large and small string groups constituting the dynamic variety of the scores. See more