Baroque music was full of tiny bits of improvisation ... Vivaldi’s ‘Winter’ is one of the first examples of programme music - that’s music written to paint images in the listener's mind.
Religious music was written ... It was commonly used in the Baroque period. The ritornello section - A - would often return in keys related to the tonic, for example, the dominant or the relative ...
Drawing on a broad range of genres including sonatas, concertos, oratorios, Passion music, masses, motets, litanies and operas, 'Bohemian Baroque' reveals a fascinating culture and repertoire ...