Music of the Baroque

Contents

• 1. Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Dum complerentur (motet)
• 2. Orlande de Lassus: Timor et tremor (motet)
• 3. Don Carlo Gesualdo, Prince of Venosa: Belta, poi che t'assenti (madrigal)
• 4. Claudio Monteverdi: Luci serene (madrigal)
• 5. Giulio Caccini: Sfogava con le stelle (continuo madrigal)
• 6. Claudio Monteverdi: Orfeo, Act 2 (opera: selections)
• a. Sinfonia and two arias: "Ecco pur ch'a voi ritorno" and "Mira ch'a se n'alletta"
• b. "Mira, deh mira Orfeo" through chorus, "Ahi, caso acerbo"
• 7. Claudio Monteverdi: Il combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (balletto or dramatic madrigal)
• 8. Pier Francesco Cavalli: Giasone (opera: selections)
• a. Act 1, scene 14 ("Dell'antro magico")
• b. Act 3, scene 21 ("Infelice ch'ascolto?")
• 9. Barbara Strozzi: Ardo in tacito foco (cantata or strophic aria)
• 10. Alessandro Scarlatti: Correa nel seno amato (cantata: selections)
• a. Aria "Fresche brine"
• b. Aria "Onde belle"
• 11. Henry Purcell: From Rosy Bowers (catata)
• 12. Jean-Baptiste Lully: Armide (opera: selections)
• a. Overture
• b. Act 2, scene 5 (recitative "Enfin, il est en ma puissance" and air "Venez, secondez mes desirs"
• 13. Giovanni Gabrieli: In ecclesiis (concertato motet)
• 14. Heinrich Sch:utz: Herr, neige deine Himmel, SWV 361 (concertato motet)
• 15. Heinrich Sch:utz: Saul, Saul, was verfolgst du mich?, SWV 415 (concertato motet)
• 16. Giacomo Carissimi: Jepthe (oratorio: selections)
• 17. Michel-Richard de Lalande: De profundis (grand motet, selections)
• a. Chorus, De profundis
• b. Recit, Sustinuit anima mea
• 18. George Frideric Handel: Orlando (opera: selections)
• a. Act 1, scene 8 (recitative and aria "O care parolette")
• b. Act 2, scene 9 (recitative and aria "Se fedel vuoi")
• c. Act 1, scene 10 (recitative and aria "Fammi combattere")
• 19. Jean-Phillipe Rameau: Les indes galantes (opera-ballet: selections)
• 20. Johann Sebastian Bach: Herr Jesu Christ, wahr'r Mensch und Gott, BWV 127 (sacred cantata)
• 21. George Frederic Handel: Jephtha (English oratorio: selections)
• a. From Part 2, scene 3 (recitative and aria "Open thy marble jaws")
• b. From Part 2, scene 4 (chorus "How dark, O Lord")
• 22. Ennemond Gaultier, Pieces for Lute
• a. Courante "L'immortelle"
• b. Allemande (Tombeau de Mesangeau)
• c. Gigue "La Poste"
• 23. Girolamo Frescobaldi: Toccata 7 (from Libro II)
• 24. Johann Jacob Froberger: Suite 20 in D
• 25. Elizabeth-Claude Jacquet de La Guerre: Prelude from Suite III in A minor
• 26. Dietrich Buxtehude: Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist, BuxWV 208 (chorale prelude)
• 27. Dietrich Buxtehude: Praeludium in A minor, BuxWV 153
• 28. Johann Sebastian Bach:
• Prelude and Fugue in G, BWV 860, from The Well-Tempered Clavier,
• 29. Jean-Henri d'Anglebert, Francois Couperin, and Jean-Phillipe Rameau: Extracts from ornament tables
• 30. Francois Couperin: Vingt-unieme ordre (keyboard suite: selections)
• a. La reine des coeurs
• b. La Couperin
• 31. Salamone Rossi: Sonata sopra La Bergamusca
• 32. Dario Castello: Sonata 12 from Libro I
• 33. Biagio Marini: Sonata variata for violin and continuo
• 34. Hans Ignaz Franz Biber: Sonata 5 in E minor for violin and continuo
• 35. Giovanni Legrenzi: Sonata La Strasolda for two violins and continuo
• 36. Arcangelo Correlli: Sonata in C for violin and continuo, op. 5, no. 3
• 37. Torelli: Sinfonia in D for trumpet, strings, and continuo, G. 8
• 38. Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso in G minor, op. 6, no. 8, "Christmas"
• 39. Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto in E for violin, strings, and continuo, op. 3, no. 12 (R. 265)
• 40. Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 2 in F, BWV 1047
• 41. Georg Philipp Telemann: Nouveau quatour no. 6 in E minor for flute, violin, viola da gamba (or cello), and continuo, TWV 43: e4
• 42. Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach: "W:urttemberg" Sonata no. 1 in A minor for keyboard, W. 49/1