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
Sonata No. 4 in D minor: 2nd movement, Siciliano in F [Thomas Arne]
Polonaise in D minor (keyboard version of Polonaise in BWV 1067) [Johann Sebastian Bach]
Jigg in F [John Barrett]
The Catherine [John Barrett]
Saraband in C fa ut [John Blow]
Theatre Tune [John Blow]
Menuet in D [Carl Bohm / (no name)]
Sarabande in C [Jacques Champion de ChambonniAres]
The Bonny Gray Ey'd Morn [Jeremiah Clarke]
Trumpet Tune in D [Jeremiah Clarke]
Menuet I and II in C, from 'Premier Livre de Pieces de Clavecin' [Louis-Nicolas Clerambault]
Le Petit-Rien, from 14th Ordre, 'Pieces de Clavecin', Book 3 [FranASCois Couperin]
La Pastourelle [Louis Couperin]
Menuet in C [Louis Couperin]
Minuet in C minor [William Croft]
Song Tune in G minor [William Croft / Adrian Davis]
La PrACOvenante, from 'Pieces de Clavecin', Book 1 [Jean-FranASCois Dandrieu]
Suite No. 1: 7th movement, Les Bergeres (The Shepherdesses) Part 1 [Louis-Claude Daquin]
Suite No. 2 in D: 6th movement, Passepied [Charles Dieupart]
Menuet in F, from 'Musicalisches Blumen-Buschlein', Op. 2 [Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer]
Sarabande in F, from '10 Suittes de Clavessin' [Johann Froberger]
Gavotte in G [Christoph Graupner]
Andante in A, from 'A Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord' [Maurice Greene]
Praeludium in G, from 'Neuer Clavier Ubung', Part 1 [Johann Kuhnau]
Saraband in G minor [William Lawes]
Passepied in F, from 'Pieces de Clavecin' [Gaspard Le Roux]
BourrACOe in A, from 'Second Livre de Clavessin' [Nicolas LebAgue]
An Antick Dance [Matthew Locke]
Prelude in C, from 'Melothesia' [Matthew Locke]
Loure in G minor, from 'Pieces de Clavecin' [Johann Mattheson]
Sefauchi's Farewell, Z. 656 [Henry Purcell]
Suite No. 1 in G, Z. 660: 2nd movement, Almand [Henry Purcell]
La Boiteuse, from 'Pieces de Clavecin' [Jean-Philippe Rameau]
Le Lardon: Menuet, from 'Pieces de Clavecin' [Jean-Philippe Rameau]
Sarabande in E minor, from '8 Suits of Lessons for the Harpsichord' [Thomas Roseingrave]
Fantasia in C, Second Dozen, No. 2: 2nd movement, Gayment (Gavotte en Rondeau) in A minor [Georg Philipp Telemann]
Menuet in D minor, from 'Der getreue Music-Meister' [Georg Philipp Telemann]
Allemande in G minor, BWV 837, from 'Clavierbuchlein for W. F. Bach' [Johann Sebastian Bach]
Corrente seconda in A minor [Giralomo Frescobaldi]
Air in Bb, HWV 471 [George Frideric Handel]
Air in E, HWV 425 (Saraband) [George Frideric Handel]
Air in G minor, HWV 467 [George Frideric Handel]
Aire in G minor, from 'Lessons for the harpsichord or spinnet' [Jean Baptiste Loeillet]
Sonata in A, Kp. 83, L. S31 [Domenico Scarlatti]
Sonata in D minor, Kp. 32, L. 423 (Aria) [Domenico Scarlatti]
Sonatina in Bb, HWV 585 [George Frideric Handel]
Menuet I & II, BWV 825/5 & 6 (from Partita No. 1 in Bb) [Johann Sebastian Bach]