Professor Michael Talbot
HENRICUS ALBICASTRO
‘London’ sonata No. 1 in C minor
‘London’ sonata No. 2 in B flat major
‘London’ sonata No. 3 in F minor
‘London’ sonata No. 4 in F major
‘Leuven’ sonata in D minor
‘Kilravock’ sonata in A minor
TOMASO ALBINONI
SIMON BALICOURT
GEORGE BERG
DIOGENIO BIGAGLIA
MARTINO BITTI
GIUSEPPE STEFANO CARBONELLI
FORTUNATO CHELLERI
ANTOINE FAVRE
MAURICE GREENE
MICHELE MASCITTI
ANTONIO MONTANARI
RICHARD MUDGE
JOHANN FRIEDRICH SCHREIVOGEL
Sonata in E flat major
Sonata in E minor
JOHN SHEELES
Suites of Lessons Book 1 (1724)
Suites of Lessons Book 2 (c.1730)
GIUSEPPE TORELLI
Motet: Ite, procul abite, maestitiae (Soprano, two violins and Basso Continuo)
Motet: O fideles, modicum sustinete tempus (Alto, two violins and Basso Continuo)
Motet: Totus orbis, umbra canit (Soprano, two violins and Basso Continuo)
GIUSEPPE VALENTINI
BENEDETTO VINACCESI
THOMAS VINCENT
Six Sonatinas (keyboard)
CHRISTIAN MICHAEL WOLFF
Concerto in G major (flute, strings and basso continuo)
Concerto in C major (flute, strings and basso continuo)
Sinfonia in B flat major (strings and basso continuo)
Concerto in E flat major (oboe, strings and basso continuo)
Michael Talbot retired from the Alsop Chair of Music in 2003 but remains at Liverpool University as Emeritus Professor. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and is known internationally for his publications, which are mainly on Italian music of the eighteenth century, focusing on Vivaldi and his Italian contemporaries. The British Academy awarded him the Serena Medal for Italian studies in 1999.
He is the sole author of nine books, several of which have been translated, and has edited a further four. Numerous articles by him have appeared in journals world-wide. He co-edits the yearbook Studi vivaldiani and is active as an editor of eighteenth-century music and as a translator of writings in several other languages.
His monograph Benedetto Vinaccesi, A Musician in Brescia and Venice in the Age of Corelli was published by Clarendon Press Oxford in 1994.
