Giuseppe Torelli: Op. 8 / 12 Concerti grossi con una pastorale per il S.mo Natale / Collegium Musicum 90

GIUSEPPE TORELLI [1658 – 1709]

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12 CONCERTI GROSSI CON UNA PASTORALE PER IL SANTISSIMO NATALE: Op. 8 (Post., Felice Torelli, 1709)

Concerto for two violins, strings and basso continuo in A minor, Op. 8 n. 2

I. Allegro – 0:00
II. Largo – 2:06
III. Allegro – 4:56

Concerto for two violins, strings and basso continuo in B flat major, Op. 8 n. 4

I. Allegro – 6:57
II. Largo e con affetto: Allegro, largo – 10:04
III. Allegro – 13:29

Concerto for two violins, strings and basso continuo in G major, Op. 8 n. 5

I. Allegro – 16:14
II. Adagio – 18:11
III. Allegro – 20:28

CONCERTO À QUATTRO IN FORMA DI PASTORALE PER IL SANTISSIMO NATALE in G minor, Op. 8 n. 6

I. Grave: Vivace – 23:51
II. Largo – 26:39
III. Vivace – 28:25

Concerto for violin, strings and basso continuo in C minor, Op. 8 n. 8

I. Vivace – 32:48
II. Adagio – 34:31
III. Allegro – 37:10

Concerto for violin, strings and basso continuo in E minor, Op. 8 n. 9

I. (Vivace) – 37:10
II. Largo: Allegro, largo – 40:16
III. (Allegro) – 45:33

VIOLIN I
Simon Standage (G. Grancino, Milan, 1685)
Miles Golding (A. Mariani, Pesaro, c.1650)
Catherine Martin (J. Ch. Fricker, 1721)
Rodolfo Richter (J. Stainer, Adsam, c. 1670)
VIOLIN II
Catherine Weiss (T. Eberle, Naples, 1770)
Diane Moore (Anonymous, English or Flemish, c. 1780)
Nicolette Moonen (M. Albanus, 1643)
Ellen O’Dell (D. Rubio 1987, copy of Stradivarius)
VIOLA
Jane Rogers (R. Ross 1992, copy of Guarnerius, 1676)
Andrew Byrt (Anonymous, Saxony, c. 1740)
VIOLONCELLO
Jane Coe (J. H. Rottenburgh, Brussels, 1753)
Helen Verney (Anonymous English, 1730)
BASS OF VIOLIN 
Helen Gough (M. Bowers 1993, copy of 17th-century original)
Anna Holmes (B. Maynard 1980, copy of Brothers Amati, 1610)
THEORBO
William Carter (K. Jacobsen, 1998)
CHAMBER ORGAN
Nicholas Parle (R. Jennings 2002, after 17th-century English)

Collegium Musicum 90 / Simon Standage (conductor)
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