Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra Musica Angelica Baroque Orchestra Musica Angelica is an internationally renowned Baroque orchestra based in Long Beach, California and led by music director Martin Haselböck, award-winning organist, conductor, and composer. Musica Angelica is dedicated to the historically informed performance of Baroque and early Classical music on period instruments. Its programs include a mixture of known masterworks by composers such as Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, along with rarely heard ‘musical gems’ by lesser-known composers. Musica Angelica was founded in 1992 by lutenist Michael Eagan and gambist Mark Chatfield. Since its inception, Musica Angelica has produced an annual subscription season of orchestral and
The Baroque Beatles Book indicates in the liner notes (signed "1684" and written as a parody of a 17th-century composer attempting to curry favor and employment with a monarch) that one of his motivations was to demonstrate how the melodies of John Lennon and Paul McCartney can be favorably compared with those of the great Baroque masters. The pieces on the album all call to mind similar works by Baroque composers. For example, the opening track "The Royale Beatleworks Musique" is, despite its name, an almost movement-for-movement parody not of Georg Friedrich Händel's "Royal Fireworks Music", but of the "Suite for Orchestra No. 4