A collection of the keyboard music of the period 1600-1750, offering a fairly representative selection of the forms, styles and composers of that period. Provides both scholarly performing editions and sources of enlightenment on performance conventions. Edited by Dr Richard Jones, a leading Bach scholar.
Contents
Prelude in G, BWV 902 [Johann Sebastian Bach]
Suite in Eb, BWV 819: 3rd movement, Sarabande (plain and ornamented versions) [Johann Sebastian Bach]
Allemande dite l'Affligee [Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres]
Les Moissonneurs, from 6th Ordre, 'Pieces de Clavecin,' Book 2 [Francois Couperin]
Chaconne in G minor [Louis Couperin]
Gavotte in G, from 'Pieces de Clavecin' [Jean-Henri D'Anglebert]
Sarabande in G minor, from 'Pieces de Clavecin' [Jean-Henri D'Anglebert]
Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in Eb, from 'Ariadne Musica' [Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer]
Aria detta la Frescobalda: from Il secondo libro di toccate [Giralomo Frescobaldi]
Lamento in C [Johann Froberger]
Allemande in D minor, from Suite No. 3 in D minor (1720 coll.), HWV 428 [George Frideric Handel]
Canzona in D minor [Johann Kerll]
Sonata quarta in C mior 'Hiskia agonizzante e risanto' [Johann Kuhnau]
Rigaudon in F, from 'Componimenti Musicali per il cembalo' [Georg Muffat]
Aria quarta in G minor, from 'Hexachordum Apollinis' [Johann Pachelbel]
Variationi sopra la Follia [Bernardo Pasquini]
Allemande in D [Alessandro Poglietti]
A New Ground, Z. T682 [Henry Purcell]
Les Tendres Plaintes, from 'Pieces de Clavecin' [Jean-Philippe Rameau]
Partite sopra la Romanesca [Michelangelo Rossi]
Sonata in B minor, Kp. 27, L. 449 [Domenico Scarlatti]
Fugue No. 10 in E minor, from 'Twenty Little Fugues', TWV 30 [Georg Philipp Telemann]