American Baroque

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Founded in San Francisco in 1986, American Baroque brings together some of America's most accomplished and exciting baroque instrumentalists, with the purpose of defining a new, modern genre for historical instruments. The group's adventurous programs combine 18th-century music with new works, composed for the group through collaborations and commissions from American composers. An ensemble of eclectic, accomplished, and artful musicians, the performances bridge a gap between the edges of the new music frontier and the familiar roads to music of the past, and expands the repertoire and scope of historical instruments into the new millenium. In its early stages, American Baroque functioned as a studio band, its mission being to record hitherto unknown quartets by Telemann. Recordings of the "Paris" quartets and the Fourth Book of Quartets were released and enthusiastically received. In 1991, the group recorded French Cantatas of the 18th Century with soprano Julianne Baird, again released to wide critical acclaim on Koch International Classics. In 1992, American Baroque began exploring the territory of performing new music written for historical instruments through its collaboration with composer, member and gambist Roy Whelden and his pieces Quartet After Abel and Gamba Quartet, which resulted in a CD release on the New Albion label in 1993. Intrigued by the unique timbres and subtlety of sounds inherent in their period instruments as well as the excitement and anticipation

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The Four Seasons by Vivaldi

Dances and Suites of Rameau and Couperin

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Mozart 4 Quartets for Strings and Winds

American Baroque Plays Telemann

The Shock of the Old - Common Sense Composers' Collective

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Mozart: 4 Quartets for Strings

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Telemann (The Best Of)

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Telemann, G.P.: Quartets Nos. 1-6

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Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F Major / Flute Quartets No. 2 and 3 / Piano Trio No. 1

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Telemann: 6 Sonatas For Two Flutes, Op. 2

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