Thomas Arne - Concerto No. 3 in A major 1/4

Concerto No. 3 in A major from "Six Favourite Concertos"
Thomas Augustine Arne

I. Con Spirito

Paul Nicholson: Piano Forte - M. Cole, copy of A. Backers (London, 1772)

Peter Holman
The Parley of Instruments

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[TheCrazyCello]

@TheCrazyCello As for Mr Brook, I have never heard of the dude, you said he was Teutonic so I went along with that! I know Leipzig is in Saxony as there is a certain prominent name associated with Leipzig which is missing from my list (not because Bach's music is in any way inferior to those I mentioned, it's just too far removed stylistically from the rest, even though he was great friends and admirers of many of them, he also failed consistantly to get a job in Dresden)

[TheCrazyCello]

@xlmp96 I am of course being absurd, I hoped that was obvious. However Vivaldi did make frequent visits to the court in Dresden and the catholic Hofkapelle there under Augustus the Strong and a lot of stylistic elements he developed can be traced back there. However Corelli was Roman, not Venetian, and very much in the tradition of Stradella, Scarlatti etc, which is highly distinct from the Venetian style as exemplarised by Vivaldi.

[xlmp96]

@TheCrazyCello Ummm, not sure about Venice, or Italy, owing everything to the Saxonians, there was Corelli don't forget. Small point - Leipzig is in Saxony... so lets just say down with Mr. Brook ;-)

[TheCrazyCello]

@xlmp96 Not at all, if you browse my channel you'll see I'm quite the proponent of Boyce! I also adore Handel. Albinoni I find a little trite and Arne overblown but that's just a matter of taste. Down with Teutonic boredom and up with Saxon splendour. If you want really interesting and entertaining music go to Saxony! Heinichen, Pisendel, Quantz, Zelenka, Fasch, Zelenka, Hasse, Zelenka and more Zelenka! Vivaldi learnt all he knew there (and then passed it on to those such as Albinoni!)

[xlmp96]

@TheCrazyCello I would wager you're a John S. Brook fan then. The epitomy of musical snobbery and boredom :-)

Long live Boyce, Handel, Albinoni and Arne - the makers of interesting and entertaining music, and down with the Tutonic boredom of Herr. Brook ;-)

[stickom]

I am not sure is it one of the J Christian Bach – Mozart style, but it is definitely melodious and very fashionable. Very refreshing!

[TheCrazyCello]

@HARMONICO101 I played Overture 5 from the 8 Overtures recently and had the same problem. Impractical shifts to deal with figurations he'd clearly written at the keyboard, as they all fell nicely under the hand. Not so on the violin! At least not a baroque one where shifting down is a nightmare anyway.

[sunsdomain]

"[Arne] could scarcely complete a phrase without embarrasing himself"!

...nothing like some good ol' musical invective!

[HARMONICO101]

Though I enjoy his music (I have uploaded his G minor harpsichord concerto), having also played said piece as first fiddle, Arne makes it way more difficult than it needs to by making us shift impractically relative to the phrasing just to make those trills he throws in everywhere.

[TheCrazyCello]

Haha I freely admit to musical snobbery. I think music is the one area of life where bigotry should be allowed - and I am bigoted. If it's by Arne it's doubtful I'll enjoy it and I have to justify my dislike with silly comments like that. However I uploaded this for people like you, who clearly enjoy it. So at least some good has come of Arne putting pen to paper :)