1720s

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Oratorio · Baroque music

St Matthew Passion

Johann Sebastian Bach and Otto Klemperer

1727

Two choirs and two orchestras face each other across the church and answer one another, while a boys' choir cuts through both from above.

★ 9.6

Concerto · Baroque music

The Four Seasons

Antonio Vivaldi and Il Giardino Armonico

1725

Vivaldi spent most of his career teaching at a Venice orphanage for girls, whose orchestra became famous enough that travelers came to hear it.

★ 8.3