Baroque music is a period or style of Western art music composed from approximately 1600 to 1750. This era followed the Renaissance music era, and was followed in turn by the Classical era. Baroque music forms a major portion of the «classical music» canon, and is now widely studied, performed, and listened to. Key composers of the Baroque era include Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, George Frideric Handel, Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Scarlatti, Alessandro Scarlatti, Henry Purcell, Georg Philipp Telemann, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, Arcangelo Corelli, Tomaso Albinoni, François Couperin, Giuseppe Tartini, Heinrich Schütz, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Dieterich Buxtehude, and Johann Pachelbel.
The Baroque period saw the creation of common-practice tonality, an approach to writing music in which a song or piece is written in a particular key; this kind of arrangement has continued to be used in almost all Western popular music. During the Baroque era, professional musicians were expected to be accomplished improvisers of both solo melodic lines and accompaniment parts. Baroque concerts were typically accompanied by a basso continuo group (comprising chord-playing instrumentalists such as harpsichordists and lute players improvising chords from a figured bass part) while a group of bass instruments—viol, cello, double bass—played the bassline. A characteristic Baroque form was the dance suite. While the pieces in a dance suite were inspired by actual dance music, dance suites were designed purely for listening, not for accompanying dancers.
During the period, composers and performers used more elaborate musical ornamentation (typically improvised by performers), made changes in musical notation (the development of figured bass as a quick way to notate the chord progression of a song or piece), and developed new instrumental playing techniques. Baroque music expanded the size, range, and complexity of instrumental performance, and also established the mixed vocal/instrumental forms of opera, cantata and oratorio and the instrumental forms of the solo concerto and sonata as musical genres. Many musical terms and concepts from this era, such as toccata, fugue and concerto grosso are still in use in the 2010s. Dense, complex polyphonic music, in which multiple independent melody lines were performed simultaneously (a popular example of this is the fugue), was an important part of many Baroque choral and instrumental works.
The term «baroque» comes from the Portuguese word barroco, meaning «misshapen pearl». Negative connotations of the term first occurred in 1734, in a criticism of an opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau, and later (1750) in a description by Charles de Brosses of the ornate and heavily ornamented architecture of the Pamphili Palace in Rome; and from Jean Jacques Rousseau in 1768 in the Encyclopédie in his criticism of music that was overly complex and unnatural. Although the term continued to be applied to architecture and art criticism through the 19th century, it was not until the 20th century that the term «baroque» was adopted from Heinrich Wölfflins art-history vocabulary to designate a historical period in music.
This CD set presents the complete works for piano solo by Claude Debussy. It includes the piano reductions of the Ballets (Khamma, Jeux, La boite a joujoux), the solo piano version of Six Épigraphes Antiques, and several alternative version of well‐known compositions, all by the composer himself. Debussy’s piano works count among the most original and influential works of the 20‐th century piano literature. The innovative piano writing, the keen sense for colour and timbre and the emotional impact of each individual piece show the hand and mind of a true genius. Christopher Devine (born 1982) was born in the Netherlands to a German mother and Scottish father. After his education at the The Hague Conservatory he furthered his development with Maria Joao Pires, Elisso Virsaladze, Janina Fialkowska and Leslie Howard. His immense repertoire includes over 1000 solo works and 30 concertos. His close affinity to Debussy’s sound world is proven in this magnificent recording of the complete works, clearly a labour of love.
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00:00:01 Lucio Silla, K. 135: Ouverture. II. Andante
00:02:59 Flute and Harp Concerto in C Major, K. 299: II. Andantino
00:11:54 Flute and Harp Concerto in C Major, K. 299: III. Rondò. Allegro
00:23:23 Eine Kleine Nachtmusik in G Major, K. 525: II. Romanza. Andante
00:30:36 Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 333: I. Allegro
00:36:31 Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 333: II. Andante cantabile
00:42:49 Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major, K. 333: III. Allegretto grazioso
00:49:58 Flute Concerto No. 1 in G Major, K. 313: III. Rondò. Minuetto
00:58:19 Andante for Flute and Orchestra in C Major, K. 315
01:06:17 Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425 «Linz»: II. Andante con moto
01:08:17 Clarinet Concerto in A Major, K. 622: I. Allegro
01:20:22 Piano Concerto No. 21 in C Major, K. 467: II. Andante
01:27:39 Piano Sonata No. 16 in C Major, K. 545 «For Beginners»: II. Andante
01:31:22 Piano Sonata No. 17 in B-Flat Major, K. 570: II. Adagio
01:38:28 Piano Concerto No. 19 in F Major, K. 459: II. Allegretto
01:45:16 Flute Concerto No. 2 in D Major, K. 314: II. Adagio non troppo
01:52:58 Sonata No. 1 for Harpsichord, Flute and Cello in B-Flat Major, K. 10: II. Andante
01:56:43 Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219: II. Adagio
02:08:36 Symphony No. 41 in C Major, K. 551 «Jupiter»: II. Andante cantabile
02:16:54 Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat Major, K. 191: II. Andante ma adagio
02:23:09 Symphony No. 1 in E-Flat Major, K. 16: II. Andante
02:26:04 Divertimento No. 1 in E-Flat Major, K. 113: II. Andante
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