All your baroque favourites packed onto an exciting three CD set for a very special price.
Tracks:
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 PURCELLL: 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