100 Best Baroque - (6CD)

[ 1 ] 100 Best Baroque - (6CD)

• Genre: Baroque  

• Year of the disc: 2006

• Manufacturer disk: EU

• Audio Codec: FLAC

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• Bitrate audio: lossless

Introducion : This 6CD set provides a comprehensive overview of Baroque music and serves as an excellent introduction for someone who would like to hear more of the Baroque style beyond "Spring" from "The Four Seasons" or "Canon" by Pachelbel. Information: This 6CD set provides a comprehensive overview of Baroque music and serves as an excellent introduction for someone who would like to hear more of the Baroque style beyond "Spring" from "The Four Seasons" or "Canon" by Pachelbel. Each piece has been expertly played and recorded reflecting the best that Baroque music has to offer, including music from Bach, Handel, Purcell, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Pachelbel, Telemann and Boccherini amongst others… look no further for a wonderful Baroque musical experience. Each piece has been expertly played and recorded reflecting the best that Baroque music has to offer, including music from Bach, Handel, Purcell, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Pachelbel, Telemann and Boccherini amongst others ... look no further for a wonderful Baroque musical experience.

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CD 1 – ENGLAND AND THE BAROQUE
Handel 1685-1759
Zadok the priest, anthem
Choir of the King’s College, Cambridge
The Academy of Ancient Music/Stephen Cleobury (5.08)
Clarke
Round-O (The Prince of Denmark’s March) [Trumpet voluntary]
Crispian Steele-Perkins, trumpet
City of London Baroque Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (1.05)
Dowland 1563-1626
Pavane Lachrymae Antiquae
Fretwork (4.17)
Purcell 1659-1695
Rondeau (from Abdelazer or the Moor’s revenge)
Taverner Players/Andrew parrott (1.34)
Tallis 1505-1585
Spem in alium, motet a 40
Taverner Consort & Choir/Andrew Parrott (10.20)
Byrd 1539-1623
With lilies white
Gérard Lesne, alto
Ensemble Orlando Gibbons
(Wieland Kuijken/Kaori Uemura/Anne-Marie Lasla/Sylvie Moquet/Jérôme Hantaï, viols) (4.50)
Purcell 1659-1695
Dido and Aeneas
Overture (2.13)
Act III (7.03)
Scene 2 (excerpt)
“Thy hand, Belinda : darkness shades me” Dido
“When I am laid in earth” Dido
“With drooping wings” chorus
Susan Graham, soprano
European Voices – Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haim
Come ye sons of art, 1694, ode for Queen Mary (excerpts) (7.03)
Symphony – Come ye son s of art, away – Sound the trumpet – Come ye sons of art
James Bowman & Christopher Robson, countertenor
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Gustav Leonhardt (8.53)
“O Solitude”
Nancy Argenta, soprano
Nigel North, lute – Richard Boothby, viola da gamba
Paul Nicholson, harpsichord & organ (6.14)
Handel 1685-1759
Solomon
Arival of the Queen of Sheba
Taverner Players/Andrew Parrott (2.46)
Messiah
Hallelujah (3.58)
“He wad despised”
James Bowman, countertenor
Taverner Choir & Players/Andrew Parrott (11.47)
Water Music
Suite in D major H 349 (excerpts)
Overture - Alla hornpipe
London Classical Players/Roger Norrington 

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CD 2 – THE BEST OF ITALIAN BAROQUE
Handel 1685-1759
Serse
“Ombra mai fù”
David Daniels, countertenor
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Roger Norrington (3.05)
Dixit Dominus (psalm L)
Dixit Dominus
Soloists, Taverner Choir & Players/Andrew Parrott
Giulio Cesare (5.19)
Recitativo ed aria : “ Dall’ondoso periglio… Aure, deh, per pieta ” Cesare
Stephanie Blythe, contralto
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris/John Nelson (8.32)
Alcina
“Verdi prati” Ruggero
Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
City of London Baroque Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (4.19)
Monteverdi 4587-1643
Sinfonia (from l’Orfeo)
Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haim (1.36)
Altri canti d’amor
The Consort of Musicke/Anthony Rooley (10.14)
Psalm 111 : “Beatus vir” a 6
Taverner Consort & Players/Andrew Parrott (8.02)
L’Incoronazione di Poppea
Final duet : “Pur ti muro” Nerone/Poppea
Della Jones, soprano – Arleen Auger, mezzo-soprano
City of London Baroque Orchestra/Richard Hickox (5.45)
Tomaso Albinoni/arr. Giazotto [Ricordi]
Adagio in G minor
Scottish Ensemble
Violin & dir. Jonathan Rees (7.40)
Gregorio Allegri
Miserere
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury (5.44)
Giovanni Gabrieli
Sonata a 8 pian e forte
Gabrieli Consort & Players/Paul McCreesh (5.16)
Vivaldi 1678-1741
Le Quattro Stagione
Concerto n° 2 in G minor, RV 315 “L’estate”
I Allegro non molto – II Adagio - III Presto (tempo impetuoso d’Estate)
Monica Huggett, violin
Raglan Baroque Players/Nicholas Kraemer (9.45) 

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CD 3 – TREASURES OF THE MEDITERRANEAN BAROQUE
Vivaldi 1678-1741
Gloria in D major RV 589
Gloria in excelsis
Taverner Choir, Consort & Players/Andrew Parrott (2.28)
Marcello 1669-1747 /arr. Lauschmann
Oboe concerto in C minor
Larghetto
Ray Still, oboe
Academy of London/Richard Stamp (5.24)
Boccherini 1743-1805
Guitar Quintet in E major, G. 275
Minuetto
Europa Galante (3.40)
Scarlatti 1685-1757
Sonata in D minor, K. 9
Mikhail Pletnev, piano (4.00)
Pergolesi 1710-1736
Stabat Mater
Stabat Mater dolorosa
Véronique Gans, soprano – Gérard Lesne, alto
Il Seminario Musicale (4.44)
Vivaldi 1678-1741
Concerto per 2 mandolini ed archi in G major, RV 532
I Allegro
Giovanni Scaramuzzino & Sonia Maurer, mandolines
Europa Galante/Fabio Biondi (3.57)
Lotti 1667-1740
Crucifixus a 10
Taverner Consort & Choir/Andrew Parrott (3.15)
Tartini 1692-1770
Concerto in G minor op.1 n°4 (excerpt)/arr. Olivier Dupin
Devil’s Trill (Allegro)
Orchestre d’Auvergne
Jean-Jacques Kantorow, violin & direction (3.50)
Vivaldi 1678-1741
Le Quattro Stagione
Concerto in E major op.8 n° 1 “La primavera”
I Allegro – II Largo e pianissimo sempre – III Danza pastorale : Allegro
Chiara Banchini, solo violin
Taverner players/Andrew Parrott (10.04)
Concerto for recorder in C major
I Allegro
Michel Sanvoisin, recorder
Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse/Louis Auriacombe (4.03)
Soler 1729-1783
Fandango
Maggie Cole, harpsichord (10.38)
Victoria 1549-1611
O vos omnes (Responsories for Holy Saturday)
The Sixteen/Harry Christophers (3.27)
Coll (after 1734)
Diferencias sobre las Folias
Hesperion XX/Jordi Savall (6.46)
Anon.
“Ay lina que reluzes” (villancico)
Montserrat Figueiras, soprano
Hesperion XX/Jordi Savall (3.21)
Mudarra 1510-1580
Pavan & galliard d’Alexandra
Circa 1500/Nancy hadden (3.00)
Bomtempo 1775-1842
Requiem to memory of Luis de Camões
Sanctus
Chorus and Orchestra of the Gulbenkian Fundation>/Michel Corboz (2.36)

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CD 4 – THE GLORY OF THE FRENCH BAROQUE
l’aîné (c. 1652-1730)
Marche de triomphe avec des trompettes et des timbales, 1685 (2.15)
Lully 1632-1687
Marche des Mousquetaires
La Simphonie du Marais/Hugo Reyne (1.25)
Francoeur 1698-1787
Contredanse (from the Suite in G minor, Symphonies pour le Festin Royal du Comte d’Artois)
La Simphonie du marais/Hugo Reyne (3.12)
Charpentier 1643-1704
Marche de triomphe
Consortium Musicum/Fritz Lehan (2.31)
Lalande 1657-1726
Symphonies pour les soupers du Roi
Caprice de Villers-Cotterets
Maurice André, Bernard Soustrot& Guy Touvron, trumpet
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris/Jean-Pierre Wallez (16.09)
Dauvergne 1713-1797
Chaconne
Concerto Köln (5.09)
Charpentier 1643-1704
Prélude (from Te Deum)
Les Arts Florissants/William Christie (1.33)
Couperin 1668-1733
Messe propre pour les Convents de Religieux et Religieuses
Offertoire sur les grands jeux
Jean-Patrice Brosse aux grandes orgues de la Cathédrale de Saint-Bertrand de Comminges
Marc-Antoine Charpentier 1643-1704 (5.00)
Regina coeli, antienne H.32
Les Demoiselles de Saint-Cyr/Emmanuel Mandrin (2.39)
Clérambault 1676-1749
Panis angelicus, motet du Saint Sacrement, pour alto, taille et basse & basse continue, C.131
Gérard Lesne, alto – Mark Padmore, taille – Josep-MiquelRamon i Monzó
Il seminario Musicale (3.30)
Campra 1660-1744
Requiem
Introït (excerpt)
Les Pages de la Chapelle
La Grande Ecurie et la Chambre du Roy/Jean-Claude Malgoire (3.30)
Rameau 1683-1764
In Convertendo, grand motet pour soli, chœur et orchestre
Tunc repletum est gaudio nostrum
Le Concert Spirituel/Hervé Niquet (3.06)
Visée 1650-1732
La Plainte, ou le Tombeau de Mesdemoiselles de Visée, filles de l’auteur (from the Suite in C minor)
Pascal Monteilhet, théorbe (4.11)
Du Buisson + 1710
Plainte sur la mort de Monsieur Lambert
Gérard Lesne, alto
Ensemble Intrumental (5.16)
Rameau 1684-1764
Tambourins I et II
Trio Sonnerie
(Monica Huggett, violin/Mitzi Meyerson, harpsichord/Sarah Cunningham, viola da gamba) (2.12)
Marais 1656-1728
Plainte (from the Suite in C minor, Troisième Livre)
Jérôme Hantaï, viola da gamba
Pierre Hantaï, harpsichord
Alix Verzier, bass viol (3.16)
Philidor 1652-1730
Le canal de Versailles, overture
La Simphonie du Marais/Hugo Reyne (1.34)
Lully 1632-1687
Isis Quinault
Air des trembleurs : “L’hiver qui nous tourmente s’obstine à nous geler”
Isabelle Desrochers, soprano – Bernard Deletré, basse
La Simphonie du Marais/Hugo Reyne (1.50)
Rameau 1683-1764
Les Indes Galantes
Chaconne (5.31)
Air de Zima “Régnez, plaisirs et jeux”
Patricia Petibon, soprano
Les Folies Françaises/Patrick Cohën-Akenine (3.12)

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CD 5 – BACH AND HIS TIME
Pachelbel 1653-1706
Canon a 3 in D major
Taverner Players/Andrew Parrott (3.38)
Buxtehude 1637-1707
Canzonetta in A minor BuxWv 225
Nicholas Danby, organ (1.55)
Monn 1717-1750
Cello concerto in G minor
III Allegro non tanto
Balázs Máté, cello
Capella Agostino Steffani/Lajos Rovátkay (4.31)
J.S Bach 1685-1750
“Jesus bleibet meine Freude” (from cantata BWV 147)
Taverner Choir & Players/Andrew Parrott (2.17)
Air (from the Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068)
English Chamber Orchestra/Philip Ledger (4.46)
Concerto for 4 harpsichords after Vivaldi in A minor, BWV 1065
I Allegro
Bob van Asperen, Bernhardt Klapprott, Marcello Bussi, Carsten Lohff, harpsichords
Melante Amsterdam/Bob van Asperen (4.24)
Toccata & fugue in D minor BWV 565
Toccata (2.34)
Gigue
Werner Jacob, organ (6.24)
Cantata “Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen”, BWV 51
Aria : “Jauchzet Gott in allen landen”
Nancy Argenta, soprano
Crispin Steele-Perkins, trumpet
Ensemble Sonnerie/Monica Huggett (4.16)
Telemann 1681-1767
Suite in A minor for treble recorder & strings
Les Plaisirs
David Munrow, recorder
Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields/Neville Marriner
Concerto for oboe, strings e basso continuo in F minor (2.36)
II Largo
Han de Vries, oboe
Melante Amsterdam/Bon van Asperen (2.17)
J.S Bach 1685-1750
Cantata BWV 29 “Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken, dir”
Sinfonia (Presto)
Taverner Players/Andrew parrott (3.38)
Goldberg variations, BWV 988
Aria
Maggie Cole, harpsichord (4.30)
St. John Passion BWV 245
Aria : “Es ist vollbracht”
Stephanie Blythe, contralto
Ensemble Orchestral de Paris/John Nelson (5.50)
Brandenburg concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049
III Presto
Rachel Beckett & Marion Scott, recorder
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Monica Huggett, violin & director (4.31)
Cello suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007
Prelude
Ralph Kirshbaum, cello (2.32)
Magnificat in D major, BWV 243
Magnificat
Nederland Kamerkoor
La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuijken (2.58)
Harpsichord concerto in F minor, BWV 1056
I – Allegro - II Largo –III Presto
Melante Amsterdam
Harpsichord and direction : Bob van Asperen (9.28)
Flute sonata in E flat major, BWV 1031
II Siciliano
Michel Debost, flute – Lionel Rogg, harpsichord (2.18)
Orchestral Suite n° 4 BWV 1069
Réjouissance
Boston Early Music Festival/Andrew Parrott (2.32) 

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CD 6 – THE GENIUS OF BACH
J.S Bach 1685-1750
Preludio (from Partita No.3 in E major) for solo violin, BWV 1006)
Christian Tetzlaff, violin (3.13)
St. John Passion, BWV 245
“Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine”
Taverner Choir, Consort & Players/Andrew Parrott (8.04)
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F major, BWV 1047
I Allegro (5.03)
II Andante (3.44)
III Allegro assai
Rachel Beckett, recorder – Paul Goodwin, oboe – Mark Bennett, trumpet
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/ Monica Huggett, violin & direction (2.47)
Mass in B minor, BWV 232
Chorus : “Gloria in excelsis”
Chorus & Orchestra of Collegium Vocale, Ghent/Philippe Herreweghe (7.01)
Prelude & fugue in C major, BWV 846 (Wohltemperierte Klavier)
Bob van Asperen, harpsichord (5.10)
Concerto for 2 violins in D minor, BWV 1043
II Largo ma non tanto
Elizabeth Wallfisch & Alison Bury, violin
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (6.24)
Suite for guitar in E minor, BWVV 996
Bourrée (1.20)
Gigue
Sharon Isbin, guitar (2.53)
Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV 1067
Ouverture - Menuet – Badinerie
English Chamber Orchestra/Philip Ledger (10.00)
Partita No.1 in B flat major, BWV 825
Praeludium (2.00)
Gigue
Gustav Leonhardt, harpsichord (1.33)
Magnificat BWV 243
Deposuit potentes
Christoph Pregardien, tenor
La Petite Bande/Sigiswald Kuiken (2.01)
Mass in B minor BWV 232
Agnus Dei
Charles Brett, alto
Orchestra of the Collegium Vocale, Ghent/Philippe herreweghe (5.27)
W.F Bach 1710-1784
Harpsichord Sonata in E flat major
II Largo III Presto
Christophe Rousset, harpsichord (5.14)
C.P.E Bach 1714-1788
Cello concerto in A major H 439
III Allegro assai
Anner Bylsma, cello
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Gustav Leonhardt (5.00)
Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu
Chorus : “Triumph ! Der Fürst des Lebens sieget !”
Choir of the Collegium Vocale –
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/Philippe Herreweghe (2.04) 

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