a collection of the keyboard music of the period 1600 - 1750, offering a fairly representative selection of the forms, styles and composers of that period.

Provides both scholarly performing editions and sources of enlightenment on performance conventions.

edited by Dr Richard Jones, a leading Bach scholar recently lauded for his edition of The Well-Tempered Clavier

• Sonata No. 4 in D minor: 2nd movement, Siciliano in F [Thomas Arne]
• Polonaise in D minor (keyboard version of Polonaise in BWV 1067) [Johann Sebastian Bach]
• Jigg in F [John Barrett]
• The Catherine [John Barrett]
• Saraband in C fa ut [John Blow]
• Theatre Tune [John Blow]
• Menuet in D [Carl Bohm / (no name)]
• Sarabande in C [Jacques Champion de Chambonnières]
• The Bonny Gray Ey’d Morn [Jeremiah Clarke]
• Trumpet Tune in D [Jeremiah Clarke]
• Menuet I and II in C, from ‘Premier Livre de Pieces de Clavecin’ [Louis-Nicolas Clerambault]
• Le Petit-Rien, from 14th Ordre, ‘Pieces de Clavecin’, Book 3 [François Couperin]
• La Pastourelle [Louis Couperin]
• Menuet in C [Louis Couperin]
• Minuet in C minor [William Croft]
• Song Tune in G minor [William Croft / Adrian Davis]
• La Prévenante, from ‘Pieces de Clavecin’, Book 1 [Jean-François Dandrieu]
• Suite No. 1: 7th movement, Les Bergeres (The Shepherdesses) Part 1 [Louis-Claude Daquin]
• Suite No. 2 in D: 6th movement, Passepied [Charles Dieupart]
• Menuet in F, from ‘Musicalisches Blumen-Buschlein’, Op. 2 [Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer]
• Sarabande in F, from ‘10 Suittes de Clavessin’ [Johann Froberger]
• Gavotte in G [Christoph Graupner]
• Andante in A, from ‘A Collection of Lessons for the Harpsichord’ [Maurice Greene]
• Praeludium in G, from ‘Neuer Clavier Ubung’, Part 1 [Johann Kuhnau]
• Saraband in G minor [William Lawes]
• Passepied in F, from ‘Pieces de Clavecin’ [Gaspard Le Roux]
• Bourrée in A, from ‘Second Livre de Clavessin’ [Nicolas Lebègue]
• An Antick Dance [Matthew Locke]
• Prelude in C, from ‘Melothesia’ [Matthew Locke]
• Loure in G minor, from ‘Pieces de Clavecin’ [Johann Mattheson]
• Sefauchi’s Farewell, Z. 656 [Henry Purcell]
• Suite No. 1 in G, Z. 660: 2nd movement, Almand [Henry Purcell]
• La Boiteuse, from ‘Pieces de Clavecin’ [Jean-Philippe Rameau]
• Le Lardon: Menuet, from ‘Pieces de Clavecin’ [Jean-Philippe Rameau]
• Sarabande in E minor, from ‘8 Suits of Lessons for the Harpsichord’ [Thomas Roseingrave]
• Fantasia in C, Second Dozen, No. 2: 2nd movement, Gayment (Gavotte en Rondeau) in A minor [Georg Philipp Telemann]
• Menuet in D minor, from ‘Der getreue Music-Meister’ [Georg Philipp Telemann]
• Allemande in G minor, BWV 837, from ‘Clavierbuchlein for W. F. Bach’ [Johann Sebastian Bach]
• Corrente seconda in A minor [Giralomo Frescobaldi]
• Air in Bb, HWV 471 [George Frideric Handel]
• Air in E, HWV 425 (Saraband) [George Frideric Handel]
• Air in G minor, HWV 467 [George Frideric Handel]
• Aire in G minor, from ‘Lessons for the harpsichord or spinnet’ [Jean Baptiste Loeillet]
• Sonata in A, Kp. 83, L. S31 [Domenico Scarlatti]
• Sonata in D minor, Kp. 32, L. 423 (Aria) [Domenico Scarlatti]
• Sonatina in Bb, HWV 585 [George Frideric Handel]
• Menuet I & II, BWV 825/5 & 6 [Johann Sebastian Bach]