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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)