Arcangelo Corelli may not have written reams of music like Bach and Handel, but he made an important contribution to music. As a violin virtuoso, Corelli developed many of the modern techniques of ...

Andrew Manze and Richard Egarr's accounts of this hugely influential set of 12 sonatas are models of the re-creative skills that thinking baroque interpreters in the 21st century can bring to such ...

Violinist Andrew Manze and harpsichordist Richard Egarr take a sonata by Arcangelo Corelli into new territory — at least for modern audiences. Manze improvises within Corelli's score, as he believes ...

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Arcangelo Corelli's 12 violin sonatas, the most highly regarded of their time, were famously re-published in 1710 in an edition that includes sections with written-out embellishments. These are said ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Arcangelo Corelli: Sonata in D major, Op. 5 No. 1 (movements 1 and 2). Performed by Concerto Caldonia, ...

(12) Sonatas for Violin/Recorder and Continuo Rachel Barton Pine, Violin John Mark Rozendaal, Cello David Schrader, Harpsichord Brandon Acker, Theorbo Head straight to the opening Adagio of Sonata No ...

Beznosiuk plays with enormous affinity and charm, his fluent and imaginative ornamentation always within the bounds of the pulse and good taste. Having chosen not to ornament the repeats slavishly, he ...

These exhilarating and inventive sonatas by Arcangelo Corelli were published in Rome in 1700. They are subdivided into church sonatas and chamber sonatas and the last sonata is the famous "Follia", ...

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