Original Baroque Concerto Grosso in D Minor II. Lento R.501. J.S.Bach - Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D BWV1050 - Croatian Baroque Ensemble. BACH J.S. - Piano Concerto N. 1 in REm BWV 1052 - Piano: J.P.Pommier (old LP) JS Bach Concerto for Oboe and Violin BWV 1060R Harnoncourt. Carl Heinrich Graun : Harpsichord Concerto in C Minor (Complete) - Rare Baroque Music. Music History 102. The Baroque Concerto. It has often been said, and not without reason, that baroque music began in Italy.
The Baroque Period saw the resurgence of Rome as the Catholic Center of the world, after a long period of decline. Money poured into the City Coffers, artists and sculptors worked to make the Eternal City the living, open-air museum it is today. In music too we can look to Italy for the origins both of the sonata and the concerto – and more precisely, we can single out Arcangelo Corelli. With his famous Concerti Grossi, 1714, Corelli established the concerto form as a composition for multiple players, in which a smaller group of instrumentalists (concertino), is set against the larger orchestra (ripieno), the two taking the theme and its development in alternation.
From the 'concerto grosso' with its alternating groups of ripieni and concertanti, the concerto for soloist and orchestra developed very naturally. This wealth of musical development did not go unnoticed in the rest of Europe.