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The Best Baroque Album in the World... Ever

Neville Marriner · Yehudi Menuhin · Alan Curtis · Bob van Asperen · David Willcocks · Iona Brown · Jordi Savall · László Heltay · Ton Koopman · Wayne Marshall

EMI Classics2006Cat. 0946 3 54468 2 11h 1m16 tracks

The Best Baroque Album in the World... Ever (2006), CD, on EMI Classics. Music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Antonio Vivaldi, Arcangelo Corelli, George Frideric Handel, performed by Neville Marriner, Yehudi Menuhin, Alan Curtis, Bob van Asperen; 16 tracks.

Composers

Johann Sebastian Bach12 Antonio Vivaldi1 Arcangelo Corelli1 George Frideric Handel1 Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel1

Tracklist

Disc 1

03

Toccata in D minor

Johann Sebastian Bach - Toccata und Fuge d-Moll, BWV 565

3:23

06

Air on the G String

Johann Sebastian Bach - Orchestersuite Nr. 3 D-Dur, BWV 1068

Iona Brown, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

3:35

08

Gloria in excelsis Deo

Antonio Vivaldi - Gloria, RV 589

László Heltay, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

2:24

10

Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring

Johann Sebastian Bach - Kantate, BWV 147 „Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben“: Teil II, X. Choral „Jesus bleibet meine Freude“

David Willcocks, Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

3:31

12

Goldberg Variations

Johann Sebastian Bach - Goldberg-Variationen, BWV 988

3:49

18

Viola da Gamba Sonata in G minor

Johann Sebastian Bach - Sonate für Viola da Gamba und Cembalo g-Moll, BWV 1029

Jordi Savall, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir

5:59

19

Concerto Grosso

Arcangelo Corelli - Concerto Grosso in G minor, op. 6 no. 8 “Christmas Concerto”

Toulouse Chamber Orchestra, Jean-Patrice Brosse

4:16

Disc 2

02

Sheep May Safely Graze

Johann Sebastian Bach - Kantate, BWV 208 “Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd!”

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields

4:37

04

Double Violin Concerto, BWV 1043: II. Largo ma non tanto

Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto for 2 Violins in D minor, BWV 1043

Yehudi Menuhin, Christian Ferras

7:43

08

Zadok the Priest

George Frideric Handel - The Four Coronation Anthems: “Zadok the Priest”, HWV 258

Yehudi Menuhin, Ambrosian Singers

5:46

09

Brandenburg Concerto No.2

Johann Sebastian Bach - Brandenburgisches Konzert Nr. 2 F-Dur, BWV 1047

2:51

13

Harpsichord Concerto in F minor

Johann Sebastian Bach - Concerto no. 5 for Keyboard and Orchestra in F minor, BWV 1056

3:20

15

Prelude No.1 in C

Johann Sebastian Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

Bob van Asperen

2:51

17

Bist du bei mir

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel - Aria, BWV 508 “Bist du bei mir”

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Janet Baker

2:55

18

Orchestral Suite No.2 - Badinerie

Johann Sebastian Bach - Orchestersuite Nr. 2 h-Moll, BWV 1067

Neville Marriner, Academy of St Martin in the Fields, William Bennett

1:34

21

Zion hort die Wachter singen

Johann Sebastian Bach - Kantate, BWV 140 "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"

Wolfgang Gönnenwein

3:29