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-Johann Sebastian Bach - Georg Philipp Telemann - George Frederick Handel - Henry Purcell - Johann Heinrich Buttsted - Antonio Lotti
-Recording this particular program was a wondrous event for us, full of challenge and discovery. We [+]Music by
-Johann Sebastian Bach - Georg Philipp Telemann - George Frederick Handel - Henry Purcell - Johann Heinrich Buttsted - Antonio Lotti
-Recording this particular program was a wondrous event for us, full of challenge and discovery. We intentionally chose pieces that were written in some of the truly unique forms that were invented and refined during the baroque era.
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-Domenico Girolamo Scarlatti (1685-1757) enjoyed some success composing operas and cantatas but is most remembered for his hundreds of keyboard sonatas. Nearly all of these are short works in simple binary form in which he gave free reign to his imagination, creating pieces that sound modern even now and that reflect the sights and sounds experienced by this well-traveled musician.
-Scarlatti demonstrated virtuoso technique in these sonatas, employing numerous ornaments, rapidly repeated notes, hands crossing over one another, and wide jumps across the keyboard. Scarlatti's sonatas can be either bright and exuberant or introspective, in styles that translate well for solo guitar.
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-Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) transcribed several of his own harpsichord and violin pieces into arrangements for the baroque lute. The Prelude, Fugue and Allegro, BWV 998, was most likely written on a keyboard instrument, for Bach did not play the lute though he was much enamored with its sound. This three movement work, which dates from around 1740, is inscribed "por la luth ò Cembal" - for the lute or harpsichord - and may have been played by Bach on a Lautenwerk, a keyboard instrument with gut and metal strings designed to sound like a baroque lute.
-The twenty-four preludes and fugues from the Well Tempered Clavier represent Bach's dedication to the establishment of tempered intonation. Adapting his instruments to this more refined tuning allowed Bach to play in any and all keys and to expand his compositions freely into larger and more complicated works. The first Prelude and Fugue from this collection, BWV 846, is recorded here as an arrangement for solo guitar, transposed from the original key of C major to A. In this key, the lyrical descending bass line of the prelude and the expansive rang
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