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Naxos AudioBook Grandiose and glamorous, Baroque music stands alone, written to glorify the finest courts of Europe. It's greatest composers, such as Vivaldi, Handel and Bach, head a fascinating cast of musical magicians, including Albinoni, Pachelbel and Scarlatti. Their lives are as intriguing as their music we find virtuoso performers who earned their bread and butter in the cathedrals of Europe while keeping company with kings and queens, and setting opera houses ablaze across the continent with their fabulous new music. Discover Music of the Baroque Era is rich in musical detail. Album Tracks 1. Chapter 1 Enter the Players 2. Individuality 3. Italy The Cradle of the Baroque 4. Concerto Grosso in B Minor, Op. 6, No. 12, HWV 330 III. Larghetto, E Piano - Variatio 5. Instrumental Development and Choral Virtuosity 6. Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001 I. Adagio 7. This Change Is Especially Dramatic 8. Keyboard Sonata in D Minor, K. 120/L.215/P.146 Allegrissimo 9. Many Regard the Choral Music of J.S. Bach 10. Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen, BWV 51 Aria Jauchzet Gott in Allen Landen! 11. It's Time Now to Go Back to the Early Seventeenth Century 12. Il Salmo Miserere Mei Deus 13. Chapter 2 The Beginnings ? Italy 14. Sacrae Symphoniae Sonata Pian E Forte a 8 (Arr. E. Crees for Brass) 15. The Contribution to Music of the Next Great Italian Composer 16. Vespers of the Blessed Virgin Domine Ad Adiuvandum 17. When Monteverdis Patron Died in 1612 18. Mein Junges Leben Hat Ein End, SWWV 324 19. As Well As Being An Outstanding Composer 20. La, la, la, Je Ne Lose Dire 21. Well Now, from the Engaging Work of a Minor Composer 22. Psalmen Davids Sampt Etlichen Moteten Und Concerten, Op. 2 Jauchzet Dem Herren, Alle Welt, SWV 36, InchPsalm 100 23. In 1625 Schutz Was Stricken By the Death of His Wife 24. England 25.