Bach: Brandenburg Concertos (1997) more music like this

performed by Academy of Ancient Music, Catherine Mackintosh (violin), Christophe Rousset (harpsichord), Christopher Hirons (violin), Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord), Monica Huggett (violin), Stephen Hammer (oboe)
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

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Vivaldi Adagios (1998) more music like this

performed by Alan Loveday (violin), Alison Bury (violin), Anner Bylsma (cello), Anthony Pleeth (cello), Carmel Kaine (violin), Catherine Mackintosh (violin), Celia Nicklin (oboe), Christopher Hirons (violin), Eduardo Fernandez (guitar), Igor Kipnis (harpsichord)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi

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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (1984) more music like this

performed by Alison Bury (violin), Catherine Mackintosh (violin), Christopher Hirons (violin), John Holloway (violin), Academy of Ancient Music
composed by Antonio Vivaldi

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Emma Kirkby sings Handel, Arne, Haydn & Mozart (1998) more music like this

performed by Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hirons (violin), Emma Kirkby (soprano), Steven Lubin (fortepiano), Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
composed by Franz Joseph Haydn, George Frederick Handel, John Frederick Lampe, Thomas Arne, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2007) more music like this

performed by Alison Bury (violin), Catherine Mackintosh (violin), Christopher Hirons (violin), Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord), Christopher Hogwood (organ), John Holloway (violin), Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi

Given all the choices of period vs. modern instruments and performance practice in finding a recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, this is one period version worth having. It wasn't the first recording of the concertos on period instruments, but it remains an outstanding one decades after its original release. In the booklet accompanying this Decca ...

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Romantic Adagios II (2003) more music like this

performed by Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Christopher Hirons (violin), Clifford Curzon (piano), Dorothy Weldon Masella (harp), Jaap Schroder (violin), Jeffrey Khaner (flute), Jorge Bolet (piano), Joshua Bell (violin), Julian Lloyd Webber (cello)
composed by Claude Debussy, Edvard Grieg, Edward Elgar, Franz Liszt, Frédéric Chopin, Georges Bizet, Giacomo Puccini, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Ludwig van Beethoven, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Richard Wagner, Sergey Rachmaninov

The title is Romantic Adagios II. The description is "Over 2 1/2 hours of the world's most passionate music." What these are, in other words, are two discs of seduction music, which is fine. Using music for seductive purposes is the oldest ploy in the world. From Orpheus up to Ol' Blue Eyes, music hath charms to arouse, inflame, and incite ...

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The Baroque Experience [Box Set] more music like this

performed by Christopher Hirons (violin), Jaap Schroder (violin), Michael Copley (recorder), Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
composed by Alessandro Marcello, Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli, Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Georg Philipp Telemann, George Frederick Handel, Giuseppe Torelli, Henry Purcell, Johann Pachelbel, Johann Sebastian Bach, Thomas Arne

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Vivaldi: Concertos Opp. 3, 4, 8 & 9 [Box Set] (2006) more music like this

performed by Alison Bury (violin), Catherine Mackintosh (violin), Christopher Hirons (violin), Elizabeth Wilcock (violin), John Holloway (violin), Michel Piguet (oboe), Monica Huggett (violin), Simon Standage (violin), Susan Sheppard (cello), Academy of Ancient Music
composed by Antonio Vivaldi

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Bach: Double Concertos (1989) more music like this

performed by Catherine Mackintosh (violin), Christophe Rousset (harpsichord), Christopher Hirons (violin), Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord), Jaap Schroder (violin), Stephen Hammer (oboe), Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
composed by Johann Sebastian Bach

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Vivaldi Adagios (2008) more music like this

performed by Academy of Ancient Music, Alan Loveday (violin), Alison Bury (violin), Anner Bylsma (cello), Anthony Pleeth (cello), Carmel Kaine (violin), Catherine Mackintosh (violin), Celia Nicklin (oboe), Christopher Hirons (violin), Christopher Hogwood (harpsichord)
composed by Antonio Vivaldi

Extracting only the slow movements from Vivaldi's concertos is an odd idea, for they are carefully calibrated to their surroundings. Vivaldi's is an art of maximum contrasts within fairly fixed forms, and the slow movements contribute to that, with gently rhythmic tunes or even near-stasis juxtaposed with the programmatic effects or spectacular ...

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