50 Best Baroque (3 CDs)

CD 1
1 HANDEL: Zadok the Priest
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge / The Academy of Ancient Music / Stephen Cleobury
2 CLARKE: The Prince of Denmark’s March (Trumpet Voluntary)
Crispian Steele-Perkins/ City of London Baroque Sinfonia / Richard Hickox
3 DOWLAND: Pavane: Lachrymae antique
Fretwork
4 PURCELL: Abdelazar, or The Moor’s Revenge - Rondeau
Taverner Players / Andrew Parrott
5 TALLIS: Spem in alium
Taverner Consort & Choir / Andrew Parrott
6 BYRD: With lilies white
Gérard Lesne countertenor / Ensemble Orlando Gibbons
7 PURCELL: Dido & Aeneas - Overture
Susan Graham/ European Voices/Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm
8 PURCELL: Dido & Aeneas, Act III Your counsel all…Great minds…Thy hand, Belinda… When I am laid in earth…With drooping wings
Susan Graham/ European Voices/Le Concert d’Astrée/Emmanuelle Haïm
9 PURCELL: Come, ye sons of art - Symphony – Come, ye sons of art, away – Sound the trumpet – Come, ye sons of art
James Bowman & Christopher Robson /Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Gustav Leonhardt
10 PURCELL: O Solitude
Nancy Argenta soprano • Nigel North lute Richard Boothby viola da gamba Paul Nicholson harpsichord & organ
11HANDEL: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
Taverner Players / Andrew Parrott
12 HANDEL: Messiah - Hallelujah
James Bowman /Taverner Choir & Players / Andrew Parrott
13 HANDEL: Messiah - He was despised
James Bowman /Taverner Choir & Players / Andrew Parrott
14 HANDEL: Water Music: Suite in D - Overture – Hornpipe
London Classical Players / Sir Roger Norrington

CD 2
1 VIVALDI: Gloria RV589 opening chorus
Taverner Choir, Consort & Players / Andrew Parrott
2 Marcello: Oboe Concerto in C minor - II: Adagio
Ray Still/ Academy of London / Richard Stamp
3 Boccherini: Guitar Quintet in E - III: Menuetto
Europa Galante
4 Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in D minor k9
Mikhail Pletnev
5 Pergolesi: Stabat Mater opening
Véronique Gens soprano • Gérard Lesne countertenor / Il Seminario Musicale
6 Vivaldi: Concerto for two mandolins in G RV532 - I: Allegro
Giovanni Scaramuzzino & Sonia Maurer mandolins /Europa Galante / Fabio Biondi
7 Lotti: Crucifixus
Taverner Consort & Choir / Andrew Parrott
8 Tartini: Sonata in G minor ‘Devil’s Trill’ -III: Allegro
Orchestre d’Auvergne / Jean-Jacques Kantorow violin
9 Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) – No.1 ‘Spring’ (La primavera) I: Allegro – II: Largo e pianissimo sempre – III: Danza pastorale: Allegro
Chiara Banchini /Taverner Players / Andrew Parrott
10 Vivaldi: Recorder Concerto in C RV444 - I: Allegro
Michel Sanvoisin/ Orchestre de Chambre de Toulouse / Louis Auriacombe
11 Soler: Fandango
Maggie Cole harpsichord
12 Victoria: O vos omnes
The Sixteen / Harry Christophers
13 martin y coll: Diferencias sobre las Folias
Hesperion XX / Jordi Savall
14 Villancico: Ay luna que reluzes
Montserrat Figueras /Hesperion XX / Jordi Savall
15 Mudarra: Pavan & Galliard d’Alexandra
Circa 1500 / Nancy Hadden
16 Bomtempo: Messe de requiem consacrée à Luis de Camões: Sanctus 2.41
Chorus and Orchestra of the Gulbenkian Foundation

CD 3
1 Pachelbel: Canon in D
Taverner Players / Andrew Parrott
2 Buxtehude: Canzonetta in A minor BuxWv 225
Nicholas Danby organ
3 Monn: Cello Concerto in G minor - III: Allegro non tanto
Balázs Máté /Capella Agostino Steffani / Lajos Rovátkay
4 J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 147 ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’ - Jesus bleibet meine Freude
Taverner Choir & Players / Andrew Parrott
5 Bach: Suite No.3 in D BWV 1068 - Air
English Chamber Orchestra / Philip Ledger
6 Bach: Concerto for four harpsichords BWV 1065 - I: Allegro
Bob van Asperen, Bernhardt Klapprott/ Marcello Bussi, Carsten Lohff /Melante Amsterdam / Bob van Asperen
7 Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor BWV 565 - Toccata
Werner Jacob organ
8 Bach: Fugue
Werner Jacob organ
9 Bach: Cantata BWV 51 ‘Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen’ - Aria: Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen
Nancy Argenta soprano • Crispin Steele-Perkins trumpet / Ensemble Sonnerie / Monica Huggett
10 Telemann: Suite in A minor - Les Plaisirs
David Munrow /Academy of St Martin in the Fields / Neville Marriner
11Telemann: Oboe Concerto in F minor - II: Largo
Han de Vries / Melante Amsterdam / Bob van Asperen
12 Bach: Cantata BWV 29 ‘Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir’ - Sinfonia
Taverner Players / Andrew Parrott
13 Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988 - Aria
Maggie Cole harpsichord
14 Bach: St John Passion BWV 245 - Es ist vollbracht
Stephanie Blythe contralto/ Ensemble Orchestral de Paris / John Nelson
15Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No.4 in G BWV 1049 - III: Presto
Rachel Beckett & Marion Scott/ Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
16 Bach: Cello Suite No.1 in G BWV 1007 - I: Prelude
Ralph Kirshbaum
17 Bach: Magnificat in D BWV 243 - Magnificat anima mea
Nederland Kamerkoor • La Petite Bande / Sigiswald Kuijken
18 Bach: Keyboard Concerto in F minor BWV 1056 - I: Allegro – II: Largo – III: Presto
Melante Amsterdam / Bob van Asperen
19 Flute Sonata in E flat BWV 1031 - II: Siciliano
Michel Debost flute • Lionel Rogg harpsichord
20 Orchestral Suite No.4 in D BWV 1069 - V: La Réjouissance
Boston Early Music Festival / Andrew Parrott