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Grand Concertos by Handel & Hellendaal
Georg Friedrich Händel, Pieter Hellendaal

Archetti Baroque String Ensemble

Grand Concertos by Handel & Hellendaal

Format: CD
Label: Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC: 0044747336824
Catnr: CRC 3368
Release date: 13 February 2015
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Label
Centaur Records, Inc.
UPC
0044747336824
Catalogue number
CRC 3368
Release date
13 February 2015
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About the album

The eight-member, San Francisco Bay Area-based Archetti Baroque String Ensemble was founded in 2010 by violinist Carla Moore and viola da gambist John Dornenburg to perform the rich chamber concerto repertory of the Baroque era in historically-informed style without a conductor. The ensemble’s name, “little bows” in Italian, alludes to the dominance of bowed stringed instruments in the Italian Baroque concerto repertory. Centaur’s Handel and Hellendaal: Grand Concertos is their debut CD. “dazzling clarity” (SF Examiner Online) “beautiful ensemble playing” (Early Music America)

Artist(s)

John Dornenburg

After spending many years as a leading exponent of Baroque music in San Francisco, John Dornenburg now resides in the United Kingdom.  He has performed widely, and has made over thrity CDs of both solo and chamber msuic on five sizes of viola da gamba and violone.  He has made numerous recordings for the Centaur label.
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After spending many years as a leading exponent of Baroque music in San Francisco, John Dornenburg now resides in the United Kingdom. He has performed widely, and has made over thrity CDs of both solo and chamber msuic on five sizes of viola da gamba and violone. He has made numerous recordings for the Centaur label.

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Carla Moore (conductor)

Carla Moore is one of America’s foremost Baroque violinists acclaimed for her stylish and virtuosic playing. A First Prize winner of the Erwin Bodky Competition for Early Music, she is co-concertmaster of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, concertmaster of Portland Baroque Orchestra and founder and co-director of Archetti Baroque String Ensemble. As a chamber musician, she has recorded seven critically acclaimed CDs with the ensemble Music’s Re-creation and three with Voices of Music. Her videos with Voices of Music have been viewed by millions worldwide. Residing in Oakland, California, Carla teaches baroque violin at the University of California, Berkeley. 
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Carla Moore is one of America’s foremost Baroque violinists acclaimed for her stylish and virtuosic playing. A First Prize winner of the Erwin Bodky Competition for Early Music, she is co-concertmaster of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, concertmaster of Portland Baroque Orchestra and founder and co-director of Archetti Baroque String Ensemble. As a chamber musician, she has recorded seven critically acclaimed CDs with the ensemble Music’s Re-creation and three with Voices of Music. Her videos with Voices of Music have been viewed by millions worldwide. Residing in Oakland, California, Carla teaches baroque violin at the University of California, Berkeley.
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Composer(s)

Georg Friedrich Händel

Georg Frideric Handel was a composer from the Baroque period. Handel wrote primarily music-dramatic works: 42 operas, 29 oratorios, more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets, which comes to a total amount of almost 2000 arias! Furthermore, he composed English, Italian and Latin sacred music, serenades and odes. Among his instrumental music are several organ concertos, concerti grossi, overtures, oboe sonatas and violinsonates, along with many solo works for harpsichord and organ.  Together with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born in the same year (1685), Handel is viewed as one of the greatest composers of his time. He was extremely prolific and wrote in total more than 610 works, many of which are still performed today.  Compared to his contemporaries Bach, Telemann...
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Georg Frideric Handel was a composer from the Baroque period. Handel wrote primarily music-dramatic works: 42 operas, 29 oratorios, more than 120 cantatas, trios and duets, which comes to a total amount of almost 2000 arias! Furthermore, he composed English, Italian and Latin sacred music, serenades and odes. Among his instrumental music are several organ concertos, concerti grossi, overtures, oboe sonatas and violinsonates, along with many solo works for harpsichord and organ.

Together with Johann Sebastian Bach, who was born in the same year (1685), Handel is viewed as one of the greatest composers of his time. He was extremely prolific and wrote in total more than 610 works, many of which are still performed today.

Compared to his contemporaries Bach, Telemann and Scarlatti, Handel was by far the most cosmopolitan. When Handel was a child, his father, who was a surgeon at the court of Saxe-Weissenfels, imagined a juridical career for him. But his musical talents did not go unnoticed at the court, which forced the father to let him study music. In Hamburg, Handel befriended Mattheson. Together they visited Buxtehude, the greatest organ player of his time, in 1703 (two years before Bach did). At that time, Handel was already an excellent musician, but it wasn't until his stay in Italy - the land of opera - that his talents and skills truly started to flourish. Back in Germany, he received a position at the court of Hannover, where the noblemen had a connection to the British throne. Thanks to these connections, Handel decided to move to London, after which a puzzling history of intrigues and political games started. For example, it is unclear what the exact political message of his famous Water Music is, which was composed for a boat ride on the river Thames by King George. Initially, Handel focused on Italian opera during his stay in London, but from the 1730s onwards he started composing English spoken oratorios, with the celebrated Messiah at its peak.


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Concerto Grosso In D Major, Op.3 NO. 5: I. Largo
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Concerto Grosso In D Major, Op.3 NO. 5: II. Allegro
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Concerto Grosso In D Major, Op.3 NO. 5: III. Larghetto
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Concerto Grosso In D Major, Op.3 NO. 5: IV. Allegro
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Concerto Grosso In D Major, Op.3 NO. 5: V. March
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Concerto Grosso In D Major, Op.6 NO. 5: VI. Ouverture
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Concerto Grosso In D Major, Op.6 NO. 5: VII. Allegro
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Concerto Grosso In D Major, Op.6 NO. 5: VIII. Presto
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Concerto Grosso In D Major, Op.6 NO. 5: VIIII. Largo
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Concerto Grosso In D Major, Op.6 NO. 5: X. Allegro
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Concerto Grosso In D Major, Op.6 NO. 5: XI. Menuet
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Concerto Grosso In G Minor, Op.3 NO. 1: I. Ouverture
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Concerto Grosso In G Minor, Op.3 NO. 1: II. Allegro
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Concerto Grosso In G Minor, Op.3 NO. 1: III. Largo
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Concerto Grosso In G Minor, Op.3 NO. 1: IV. Presto
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Concerto Grosso In G Minor, Op.3 NO. 1: V. Menuet
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Concerto Grosso In A Major, Op.6 NO. 11: I. Andante Larghetto, E Staccato
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Concerto Grosso In A Major, Op.6 NO. 11: II. Allegro
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Concerto Grosso In A Major, Op.6 NO. 11: III. Largo
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Concerto Grosso In A Major, Op.6 NO. 11: IV. Andante
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Concerto Grosso In A Major, Op. 6 NO. 11: V. Allegro
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Concerto Grosso In D Minor, Op.3 NO. 2: I. Ouverture
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Concerto Grosso In D Minor, Op.3 NO. 2: II. Allegro
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Concerto Grosso In D Minor, Op.3 NO. 2: III. Affettuso
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Concerto Grosso In D Minor, Op.3 NO. 2: IV. Presto
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Concerto Grosso In D Minor, Op.3 NO. 2: V. Borea
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