If you want to know more about any of the instruments you’re seeing, check out our Guide to Baroque Instruments. Baroque music with these qualities is good for babies and children because it can hold their attention while also furthering their emotional development. It’s fast and furious, but also has tender moments that show the expressivity of the violins. This piece is the third movement of the eighth concerto in that collection.Ī movement is a short piece that is grouped together with other pieces to form a larger, complete piece. The piece we want to share with you is from Vivaldi’s L’estro armonico (1711), which is an important published collection of concertos for one, two, and four violins with string orchestra. But he also wrote nearly 50 operas and some other works for musicians outside of the Ospedale.Īfter his death in 1741, his works were mostly forgotten until they were “rediscovered” in the 1920s and 30s and started to be programmed again on concerts. Vivaldi wrote most of his music for this ensemble, including more than 60 vocal works such as his Gloria in addition to his 500+ concertos. His ensemble and the ensembles of the other orphanages in Venice were considered to be very good, so good, in fact, that travelers from all over Europe came to hear them. He was an Italian composer, born in Venice, Italy, in 1678, and he spent most of his life working at an orphanage there: the Ospedale della Pietà.Īt the Ospedale he was in charge of an all-female musical ensemble, which consisted of an orchestra and choir. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.Vivaldi was known as “The Red Preist” because he had red hair and was.
The audio is accessed online using the unique code inside each book and can be streamed or downloaded.
A joy to perform, as well as to listen to, it will delight you for a lifetime! Master virtuoso Michael Metelka performs this perennial classic, then he steps aside and you take your place as soloist with the magnificent Czech Symphony Chamber Orchestra under Maestro Mario Klemens. Magnificent in every way, and well worth the effort to learn. Here is the classic which sits atop the Baroque literature for violin and orchestra.
This revised package features a beautiful solo part and professionally-recorded demo and backing tracks online so you can play with an actual orchestra. Accompaniment: Czech Symphony Chamber Orchestra
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