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
Fantasia in C minor, BWV 906 [Johann Sebastian Bach]
Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830: 5th movement, Sarabande [Johann Sebastian Bach]
Pavane 'L'Entretien des Dieux', from 'Les Pieces de Clavessin', Book 1 [Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres]
Chaconne 'La Favorite', from 3rd Ordre, 'Pieces de Clavecin' Book 1 [Francois Couperin]
Capriccio sopra la Bassa Flamenga in G minor, from 'Il primo Libro di Capricci' [Giralomo Frescobaldi]
Fugue No. 6 in C minor, HWV 610 [George Frideric Handel]
Passacaglia in G minor, from 'Apparatus Musico-Organisticus' [Georg Muffat]
Toccata in F [Bernardo Pasquini]
L'Entretien des Muses, from 'Pieces de Clavessin' [Jean-Philippe Rameau]
La Poule, from 'Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin' [Jean-Philippe Rameau]
Sonata in C, Kp. 133, L. 282 [Domenico Scarlatti]
Cantilena Anglica Fortunae, from 'Tabulatura Nova', Part 2 [Samuel Scheidt]