Archguitar Baroque
Bach ~ Handel ~ Scarlatti ~ Vivaldi

Peter Blanchette, Archguitar
with Peter Michelini, Archguitar

It's one of those delightful historical footnotes that three of the composers represented on this disc were born in 1685.   Two of them - Bach and Scarlatti - had to compete against the legacies of musical fathers, while both Handel and Vivaldi had fathers who were barbers.   Handel's dad disliked music and envisioned a career for his son as a lawyer, while Vivaldi's was a violin-playing musical enthusiast who eventually left the hair salon for a musical one at St. Mark's in his native Venice.     …
- Byron A. Nilsson

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750) [1 ]   Prelude No. 15 in E Minor, BWV 879,          from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II [2 ]   Little Prelude in F Major, BWV 927,          from the Notebook for W. F. Bach Two-Part Invention No. 8 in F Major, BWV 779 (Arr. Stanul) [3 ]   Largo (from Harpsichord Concerto No. 5 in F Minor, BWV 1056) George Frederic Handel (1685-1759) [4 ]   Allegro (from Violin Sonata No. 5 in A Major, Op. 1 No. 14) Domenico Scarlatti (1685-1759) [5 ]   Allegro in D Minor, K. 9 [6 ]   Sonata in G Major, K.105 J. S. Bach [7 ]   Little Prelude in C Major, BWV 924,          from the Notebook for W. F. Bach [8 ]   Prelude No. 2 in C Minor, BWV 847,          from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book [9 ]   Prelude No. 1 in C Major, BWV 846,          from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book [10] Little Prelude in C Major, BWV 933 [11] Arioso (from "Capriccio on the Departure of His Beloved Brother," BWV 992) [12] Allemande (from the French Suite No. 6 in E Major, BWV 817) [13] Grave (from Violin Sonata No. 2 in A Minor, BWV 1003) (Blanchette solo) [14] Prelude No. 3 in C-sharp Major, BWV 848,          from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I [15] Prelude No. 20 in A Minor, BWV 865,          from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I [16] Prelude No. 9 in E Major, BWV 854,          from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I [17] Little Prelude in E Major, BWV 937 2:08 [18] Largo (from Violin Sonata No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005) (Blanchette solo) [19] Musette in D, BWV Anh. 126,          from the Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach [20] Prelude No. 3 in C-sharp Major, BWV 872,          from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II [21] Prelude No. 17 in A-flat Major, BWV 862,          from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) [22] Allegro (from the Violin Concerto in B-flat Major, RV 381, as arranged by J. S. Bach as a Concerto in G Major for solo harpsichord, BWV 980) Total Program Length: 61:46