Description

A collection of keyboard music from 1600-1750, featuring a fairly typical range of the forms, styles, and composers of the time. Offers both scholarly performing editions and sources of information on performance conventions. Dr. Richard Jones, a renowned Bach specialist, edited the work.

Songs / Content

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