A Baroque Festival (1600-1750)

Camerata Academica of Salzburg, London Festival Orchestra, St. Louis Brass Quintet Collegium Aureuim (Artist), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Jeremiah Clarke (Composer), Johann Joseph Fux (Composer), George Frederick Handel (Composer), Jean-Joseph Mouret (Composer), Johann Pachelbel (Composer), Henry Purcell (Composer), Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov (Composer), Georg Philipp Telemann (Composer), Antonio Vivaldi (Composer), Camerata Academica Salzburg (Performer), Camerata Romana (Performer), Cathedral Brass (Performer), Collegium Aureum (Performer), St. Louis Brass Quintet (Performer), Christiane Jaccottet (Performer), Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra), London Festival Orchestra (Orchestra), London Philharmonic Orchestra (Orchestra) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Camerata Academica Salzburg, Camerata Romana, Cathedral Brass, Collegium Aureum, St. Louis Brass Quintet, et al.
• Orchestra: Bamberg Philharmonic Orchestra, London Festival Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra
• Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Jeremiah Clarke, Johann Joseph Fux, George Frederick Handel, Jean-Joseph Mouret, et al.
• Audio CD (January 2, 2009)
• Number of Discs: 4
• Label: Intersound Records
• ASIN: B000003QWD
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,324 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #68 in Music > Classical > Forms & Genres > Theatrical, Incidental & Program Music > Marches
  • #71 in Music > Classical > Historical Periods > Baroque (c.1600-1750) > Composers > Telemann, Georg Philipp
  • #76 in Music > Classical > Chamber Music > Quartets

Track Listings

1. Concerto Grosso Op.3/12 in C Major

2. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 BWV1048

3. Canon and Gigue: Canon in D

4. Concerto Für Streicher und Cembalo RV109 in C Majo

5. Adagio in G Minor

6. Concerto Grosso Op.6/5 in D Major

7. Work(s): Unspecified Work(s)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Baroque collection - everyone should have this!, June 18, 2002

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Andrew Furst (Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A Baroque Festival (1600-1750) (Audio CD)

This is a remarkable collection of Baroque music. I've heard a lot of Baroque music and I am very discriminating about performance and sound quality. This set is a winner and a fantastic bargain... Somehow they've managed to choose what is truly "best" from the period (for example I've always felt Bach's Brandenburg Concertos # 2, 3, 5 were the best of the six, while 1,4,6 were relatively weaker - and lo and behold this collection includes 2,3,and 5) while missing very little if anything that "should have" been here (of course a 10 or 12 CD collection would have been even better, but you have to stop somewhere).

The performances here are excellent, and the recording quality is very high. I disagree with the person who claims this isn't "audiophile quality", because I don't think it could get much better unless it were on another medium such as SACD. I didn't particularly notice coughing on Handel's "Messiah" but Messiah fans would likely prefer a complete performance of that particular work anyway (the excerpts from Messiah here are complete pieces, but this set doesn't include the entire 2 hour or whatever Messiah). These do not sound like "outtakes", what kind of a comment is that? Somebody worked very hard to put this collection together, and they did a fantastic job (and I have zero affiliation with this, I just feel the truth as I see it should be told).

Vivaldi's "Four Seasons" is presented in it's entirety (ok, it's not the entire Vivaldi Opus 8, but it is the entire Four Seasons as normally found on any "Four Seasons" CD). There are so many great works here, which a lot of people will recognize even if they didn't know the actual piece or composer (or even that it was from the Baroque era). There's even the Mouret fanfare made famous as the "Masterpiece Theater" theme music. Yes this is a great "introduction" at a great price - which might get people to explore Baroque music further, but it's also a fairly complete collection which will suit a lot of people as such (i.e. for everyone who appreciates most any type of music these works should be "essential", but also the 4 CD collection might be all that a casual listener would "need" from the Baroque era). I feel that most people would be thrilled with this set; about the only way it might have been better would be to include information about each piece and about the Baroque era in general (there is no "text" at all with this set).

3 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Entry level baroque, January 10, 2001

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Conan The Republican (Sunnyvale, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Baroque Festival (1600-1750) (Audio CD)

Nice cheap way to get into Baroque music. Unfortunately it's not the best recording you can get but it should be adequate enough for a non-audiophile. I've been unable to bring myself to listening to it again since I noticed that someone coughs in the background (very noticeably) during Handel's Messiah. Wonder if this is an outtakes CD.