Description

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

1. Fantasia in C minor, BWV 906 [Johann Sebastian Bach]
2. Partita No. 6 in E minor, BWV 830: 5th movement, Sarabande [Johann Sebastian Bach]
3. Pavane ‘L’Entretien des Dieux’, from ‘Les Pieces de Clavessin’, Book 1 [Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres]
4. Chaconne ‘La Favorite’, from 3rd Ordre, ‘Pieces de Clavecin’ Book 1 [Francois Couperin]
5. Capriccio sopra la Bassa Flamenga in G minor, from ‘Il primo Libro di Capricci’ [Giralomo Frescobaldi]
6. Fugue No. 6 in C minor, HWV 610 [George Frideric Handel]
7. Passacaglia in G minor, from ‘Apparatus Musico-Organisticus’ [Georg Muffat]
8. Toccata in F [Bernardo Pasquini]
9. L’Entretien des Muses, from ‘Pieces de Clavessin’ [Jean-Philippe Rameau]
10. La Poule, from ‘Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin’ [Jean-Philippe Rameau]
11. Sonata in C, Kp. 133, L. 282 [Domenico Scarlatti]
12. Cantilena Anglica Fortunae, from ‘Tabulatura Nova’, Part 2 [Samuel Scheidt]
13. Sonata in C, Kp. 132, L. 457 [Domenico Scarlatti]