If I Could Choose Only One Work By...CORELLI
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- Опубликовано: 13 сен 2024
- It Would Have To Be...12 Concerti grossi, Op. 6
Because they are the iconic exemplars of the Concerto Grosso form, and perfect gems of baroque musical expression.
The List So Far...
1. Ravel: Ma Mère l’Oye (Mother Goose Ballet)
2. Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
3. Schubert: String Quintet in C major
4. Shostakovich: Symphony No. 4
5. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 “Resurrection”
6. Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
7. Debussy: Preludes for Piano (Books 1 & 2)
8: Handel: Saul
9. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
10. Brahms: String Sextet No. 2 in G major
11. Vaughan Williams: Job
12. Bach: Goldberg Variations
13. R. Strauss: Four Last Songs
14. Berlioz: The Damnation of Faust
15. Haydn: “Paris” Symphonies (Nos. 82-87)
16. Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
17. Beethoven: String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor
18. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor
19. Chopin: Preludes
20. Verdi: Rigoletto
21. Roussel: Symphony No. 2
22. Copland: Appalachian Spring (complete original ballet)
23. Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 and 2
24. Bartók: Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion
25. Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
26. Rimsky-Korsakov: Opera Suites (Scottish National Orchestra/Järvi) Chandos
27. Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire
28. Smetana: Ma Vlást
29. Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
30. Bizet: Carmen
31. Elgar: In the South
32. Sullivan: The Mikado
33. Dvořák: Symphony No. 8; Cello Concerto (Piatigorsky/Munch/Boston Symphony) RCA
34. Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
35. Monteverdi: Orfeo
36. Scarlatti: Sonatas
37. Schumann: Fantasie in C, Op. 17
38. Berg: Wozzeck
39. Hermann: Psycho (film score)
40. Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on the Theme of Paganini
41. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
42. Holst: Suites for Military Band
43. Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex
44. Respighi: Three Botticelli Pictures
45. Sibelius: Symphony No. 5; Pohjola’s Daughter (Bernstein, New York Philharmonic) Sony
46. Britten: The Turn of the Screw
47. Borodin: String Quartet No. 2
48. Janácek: The Cunning Little Vixen
49. Korngold: Violin Concerto
50. Tallis: Spem in Alium
51. Nielsen: Symphony No. 5
52. Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915
53. Hindemith: Symphony in E-flat
54. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov
55. Franck: Violin Sonata
56. Rossini: La gazza ladra (The Thieving Magpie)
57. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 “Egyptian”
58. Weill: The Seven Deadly Sins
59. Pergolesi: Stabat Mater
60. Albeniz: Iberia
61. Bernstein: Mass
62. Schreker: Chamber Symphony
63. Walton: Variations on a Theme by Hindemith
64. Dukas: Piano Sonata
65. Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
66. Tippett: Piano Concerto
67. Poulenc: Songs (ATMA, 5 discs)
68. Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1
69. Gluck: Alceste
70. Vivaldi: L’estro armonico, Op. 3
71. Puccini: La Bohème
72. Hanson: Symphony No. 2 “Romantic”
73. Alkan: 12 Etudes in All the Minor Keys, Op. 39
74. Dutilleux: Métaboles
75. Glinka: Kamarinskaya
76. Crumb: Makrokosmos III (Music for a Summer Evening)
77. Biber: Sonata violino solo representativa
78. Josquin: Missa Ave maris stella
79. Arnold: Symphony No. 5
80. Fauré: Piano Quartets (Trio Wanderer) Harmonia Mundi
81. Hovhaness: Fra Angelico
82. Martinu: Symphony No. 6 “Fantaisies symphoniques”
83. Grainger: Lincolnshire Posy
Whenever I need an emotional "lift" I'll listen to one of these concerti. They (for me at least) always put me in a good mood.
I was just listening to Corelli when I saw this pop up. He’s in the air today!
While I agree with your choice, it should be acknowledged that Corelli's 12 Sonatas Op. 5 are just as fine as his Op. 6 concertos. Fortunately, Geminiani's Op. 5 arrangements of Corelli's Op. 5 sonatas as concerti grossi are very well done and by selecting them as our choice for Geminiani, we get to preserve both of Corelli's magnum opuses. IMO, I Musici's performances of the Geminiani Op. 5 concertos are the ones to choose.
Hear hear!
The first work of Corelli I heard many years ago were the op.5 sonatas recast as concerti grossi by his pupil, Francesco Geminiani on a set of Vox discs in rather murky sound.
No matter. I fell in love with the music at once, the Number 12 concerto, "La Follia" becoming an ear worm that remains with me to this day.
Civilized music of a very high order.
Yes, there were masters before Bach.
Lovely video! Still hoping for a telemann one! Ma
Me too!
Love this work, especially Pinnock and McGegan.
Pinnock's recording is quite delightful.
A cool thing about Opus 6 (and Corelli in general) is that they are very playable. Corelli seldom ventured out of first postition on the violin. My (totally average) high school orchestra was able to perform the Christmas Concerto without embarrassment. I understand that Thomas Jefferson could play the Opus 3 violin sonatas (the most often published works of the 18th century) from memory.
a very obvious choice......of corelli I like his variations on the theme of the ''follia''....you should also make a discussion on the many composers who have approached the theme of the ' 'follia'....
Might be banal, but n. 8, the "Concerto per la Notte di Natale" ("Christmas Concerto"), is maybe the archetypical Work of Baroque instrumental counterpoint. If you're studying Counterpoint, giving a reading to that score is in my opinion if not a necessity surely warmly recommended.
Dave, on another topic: you've resoundingly endorsed the early teenage Mendelssohn's string symphonies and piano quartets. The other day I listened to his handful of concerti from the same period with mixed feelings. That is, my naive ears could hear the imitative immaturity; yet when I just let it wash over I was entertained. Are you familiar with these works? what is your take?
I think that they are lovely, for the most part, and just very enjoyable (as you said).