Vinyl plays with crackles and some clicks (play-graded). Cover looks great; a few creases near edges; light-scuffing, slight discoloration with darker discoloration spots, and surface impressions (front/back). Inner-sleeve is original (generic white); bottom seam partially split. Spine is partly readable with noticeable wear. Shelf-wear and splits along top/bottom-edge and corners. Opening is crisp with signs of light use and divots. (Not a cut-out.)
In music the normal use of the word baroque has come to cover everything composed between the time Monteverdi to about the middle of the 18th century, when the elder Bach died. In this period the search for new forms sped the development of the opera in the theater, the cantana and oratorio in the church, the suite and the concerto grosso in the concert chamber.String music developed also in response to the incredible degree of craftsmanship attained by such masters as Stradivari and Guarneri: keyboard flourished together with the art of organ and harpsichord builders. It was a period in which music was by far the most exciting of all the arts. Composers composed, listeners listened, and rival enlightened despots of a hundred ducal courts out did each other in their efforts to sign up and hang on to outstanding talent. From this fertile period GO FOR BAROQUE! is a broad sampling, which includes the following works: Handel's Largo, Pachelbel's canon, the Well-Tempered Clavier, and Vivaldi's Four Seasons among others.