Professor P has
completed a CD with arrangements by Paul De Bra of compositions
by the "great baroque trio" Bach, Handel and Vivaldi.
All the tracks on this CD are of compositions that are in the public domain and are available under the Creative Commons Attributions license. So they can be freely downloaded, played and redistriibuted (provided
credit is given where due).
The CD contains the tracks listed below. The links here are to mp3 files
(at high quality, but not exactly lossless compared to the real CD tracks).
If you wish to own and play this CD you can use the following files:
ISO file to burn the CD
label for the CD (for HERMA round 116 labels) (2 copies)
front for jewel case (can be printed double-sided to get 2 copies)
back for jewelcase, with table of contents (2 copies)
The instrumentation of Professor P, as used on this CD consists of: 1) Bayan AKKO Super Deluxe, 2) Bugari 508/ARS/C, 3) Bugari 540/ARS/C, 4) Hohner Morino Artiste XS, 5) Pigini C39 Basson.
nr | Title | Composer | Ensemble |
1 | Le Quattro Stagioni, l' Autunno, mov. 1 | Antonio Vivaldi | 4 acc + bass |
2 | Le Quattro Stagioni, l' Autunno, mov. 2 | Antonio Vivaldi | 4 acc + bass |
3 | Le Quattro Stagioni, l' Autunno, mov. 3 | Antonio Vivaldi | 4 acc + bass |
4 | Air (from Concerto BWV1068) | Johann Sebastian Bach | 4 acc + bass |
5 | Gavotte (from Concerto BWV1068) | Johann Sebastian Bach | 4 acc + bass + timpani |
6 | Largo from the Opera Xerxes | Georg Friedrich Handel | 4 acc + bass |
7 | Ouverture from the opera Rinaldo | Georg Friedrich Handel | 4 acc + bass |
8 | Concerto BWV 1041, mov. 1 | Johann Sebastian Bach | 4 acc + bass |
9 | Concerto BWV 1043, mov. 2 | Johann Sebastian Bach | 6 acc + bass |
10 | Concerto BWV 1042, mov. 3 | Johann Sebastian Bach | 4 acc + bass |
11 | Largo from the Lute Concerto RV 93 | Antonio Vivaldi | 4 acc + bass |
12 | The Music for the Royal Fireworks | Georg Friedrich Handel | 4 acc + bass + timpani |
13 | Erbarme Dich from the Mattheus Passion | Johann Sebastian Bach | 6 acc + bass |
14 | Concerto for flute, strings and Harpsichord, RV 440, mov. 1 | Antonio Vivaldi | 4 acc + bass |
Note that this CD contains only public domain compositions and the recordings are available under the Creative Commons Attribution license so it is allowed to play the CD in public. Nonetheless the CD is primarily intended to illustrate what the arrangements sound like, for when you want to learn to play them.