for today's triple post: a trio of great baroque composers from different corners of europe. fair warning, the posts for the next week will not be great, owing to the audition next weekend... i mean, of course the music will be great, but i will want to avoid doing anything truly dear to me for lack of the time to do a proper entry.
handel wrote a number of concerti grossi for strings and continuo. this is Op. 3/5, the fifth in his first set. (the second set is Op. 6, another set of twelve which is slightly more popular and forms a bit more coherent whole.) this opus was published in 1734, though this particular work dates to 1717-8.
since it's so short i'll just do it in its entirety.
five movements: the largo; a fugue (allegro); adagio; allegro, ma non troppo; and allegro.
when it was published, originally only the first two movements were released, and this might remind some of you of a sort of french overture style. there is quite a lot of content in the fugue movement, which is a three part fugue for oboe and strings.
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