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Concerto No 9 in E minor

composer

Robert Woodcock (1690-1728)

XII Concertos in Eight Parts, circa 1728

Recordings

Orpheus with his lute

Catherine Bott (soprano), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

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Details

Movement 1: Vivace

Rachel Brown (flute), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 10 on CDA67450 [1'46]

Movement 2: Largo

Rachel Brown (flute), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 11 on CDA67450 [1'56]

Movement 3: Allegro

Rachel Brown (flute), The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

Track 12 on CDA67450 [1'58]

Concerto No 9 in E minor

This is a concerto by the painter, civil servant and wind player Robert Woodcock to represent the sort of music that would have been played in the intervals of eighteenth-century productions of Shakespeare plays. Like many concertos of the period written for the London theatres, it has no viola part and is written in a light Italianate style. Woodcock died in April 1728, and his XII Concertos in Eight Parts seem to have been published soon afterwards as a posthumous tribute to him. Thus the three flute concertos included in the collection seem to be the earliest published anywhere for the instrument.

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