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Programme
Information:
The Grand European
Recorder Tour
--A journey in time to
many musical centres of Baroque Europe |
This programme explores the breadth of
repertoire for recorder and harpsichord composed in the
seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Some of this music
was specially written for the recorder, and some of it was
adapted for the instrument from the much larger repertoire for
other instruments, such as the violin.
The programme traces the development of music for an accompanied
solo instrument from the earliest virtuosic single-movement
pieces of early seventeenth-century Venice, through to the time
when the multi-movement solo sonata had become an established
form, shaped by the hands of better-known composers such as
Corelli, Handel and Telemann.
The programme includes harpsichord and recorder solos as well as
works for the two instruments in combination. The programme
includes works from the Renaissance (music by Ortiz and Fontana)
to the early baroque Division Flute, and finally to well-loved
later baroque works by Telemann, Vivaldi, and Handel. |
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