Over the last thirty years or so there has been an enormous rise in the popularity of Baroque music—that is, broadly speaking, the repertoire composed between 1600 and 1750. Vivaldi’s Four Seasons has become a ‘chartbuster’, the Pachelbel Canon and ‘Albinoni’s Adagio’ have individual name slots on the CD shelves (where did you discover this disc?), Bach’s ‘Air on the G string’ provides a soothing backdrop for a famous TV commercial, and Charpentier’s Te Deum spawned the Eurovision theme tune!