Lively Baroque Violin Concertos
I am exploring the music of Albinoni who I feel is very underrated. Everyone thinks that the only thing he ever composed was the Adagio for strings, but he was very prolific even if most of his music did not survive. He was not a "professional" composer in that he came from a wealthy family and composed purely for his own pleasure rather than on commission. He also composed secular works, as opposed to the professional composers who picked up most of their commissions from the Church or from the courts of the ruling princes.
# Composer: Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
# Conductor: Christopher Hogwood
# Performer: Andrew Manze, Frank de Bruine, et al.
# Label: Decca
# Catalog: #458129
# Audio CD (October 12, 1999)
# Number of Discs: 2
# ASIN: B00001X591
Other Baroque composers to explore are Corelli, Gemignani, Handel, Purcell, Byrd, et al.
