Your Daily Dose of CHRISTMAS!!!

I’ve noticed that I listen to chamber music more in the colder months than I do during the warmer. I’m not sure why that is, but maybe being inside more results in me responding more to the intimacy of good chamber music.

Arcangelo Corelli wrote a concerto grosso upon the commission by Cardinal Pietro Ottoboni, and he noted in the score that it was “made for the night of Christmas”. The work has no specific date, as it was eventually published in a posthumous collection of Corelli’s works. Nevertheless, if you’ve ever wondered what an Italian Cardinal might have been hearing musically on Christmas night in the late 17th or early 18th centuries, here you go! I like this piece a great deal.