Artist: Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company
Album: London Calling
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 44,1 kHz
Duration: 01:08:28
Total Tracks: 24
Total Size: 739 MB

Tracklist:

1. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Gavotta con divisioni (02:39)
2. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Adagio – Presto (02:19)
3. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Canciona dicha la preciosa (05:40)
4. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Su Gallarda (02:02)
5. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Aria tra la maniera Francese, è la Spagnola (02:01)
6. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Diverse bizzarrie sopra la Vecchia Sarabanda ò pur Ciaccona (03:55)
7. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Fantazia No. 5 (03:26)
8. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Fantazia No. 1 (02:40)
9. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Fantazia No. 2 (02:03)
10. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Contr’aria (02:40)
11. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Fancy (01:03)
12. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Scaramuccia (01:34)
13. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Aria burlesca con molte bizzarrie (03:53)
14. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Gavotta (02:07)
15. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Prélude & Capriccio, HWV 571: I. Prélude (02:01)
16. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Prélude & Capriccio, HWV 571: II. Capriccio (02:46)
17. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Preludio (01:45)
18. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Fantasia a 3 (02:12)
19. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Fantazia No. 3 (02:10)
20. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – The Fairy Queen, Z. 629: The Plaint (Arr. for Violin, Recorder & Chamber Ensemble) (06:34)
21. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Aria Amorosa (04:06)
22. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Ground in D Minor la sol re per far la mano (03:11)
23. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Grave (02:21)
24. Michael Oman, Amandine Beyer, Austrian Baroque Company – Ground after the Scotch humour (03:09)

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This new release gives us a small impression of what was played for entertainment in the late 17th and early 18th centuries in the houses of London’s high society. The variety of the programme ranges from typical British melancholy to ostinato melodies by Nicola Matteis, an Italian violinist who, like Handel, who is also represented here, enriched the musical life on the Thames as a musical guest worker and Englishman of choice, to the exuberance of the ‘Ayres’. The famous baroque violinist Amandine Beyer and the recorder player Michael Oman are supported by the ABC – Austrian Baroque Company.Another album of “recreational baroque” which, this time, takes us into the high society of London at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries under the expert guidance of the violinist Amandine Beyer, with Michael Oman on recorder, and the Austrian Baroque Company. The programme consists of a series of pieces composed by virtuoso violinist-composers who were attracted like flies to London’s thriving musical scene (“London Calling”) and whose style was inspired by both Biber and Corelli, at a time when the violin was branching away from the viol and consorts, gradually abandoned in favour of the new instrument, more brilliant and better able to express human and sacred passions.

These music, alternately cheerful and melancholic, was played and danced in noble houses, thus ensuring a substantial source of income for musicians. Discover pieces in this album by Andrea Falconieri, John Hilton and Nicola Matteis, surrounded by Handel and Purcell. – François Hudry