The Orgelbüchlein (Little Organ Book) BWV 599−644 is a collection of 46 chorale preludes for organ written by Johann Sebastian Bach. All but three of them were composed during the period 1708–1717, while Bach was court organist at the ducal court in Weimar.
Le tic-toc-choc, or Les maillotins is a piece from Couperin’s volume three of harpsichord music. Couperin’s four volumes of harpsichord music, published in Paris in 1713, 1717, 1722, and 1730, contain over 230 individual pieces.
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (26 October 1685 – 23 July 1757) who wrote the Sonata in A Major K. 322 was an Italian composer who spent much of his life in the service of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families.
Unbelievable… Listening Cecilia Bartoli singing Gelido in Ogni Vena must be on your 10 Things To Do Before You Die list… Farnace, with music by Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi (1678–1741), received its first performance in 1727 at the Teatro Sant’Angelo in Venice.
The Prelude in C Minor (BWV 999) is a prelude, possibly for solo lute or another instrument written by the composer Johann Sebastian Bach, probably during the late 1710s or early 1720s.
Large parts of the concluding fugue of Bach’s Toccata in E minor BWV914 seems to be borrowed directly from an anonymous composition discovered in a Naples manuscript. The subject is almost identical.
This prelude in D major is a transcription from the prelude from the Suite No 1 in G major, mainly consisting of arpeggiated chords, probably the best known movement from the entire set of the six Cello Suites, BWV 1007-1012 by Johann Sebastian Bach.
Lascia ch’io pianga, originally Lascia la spina, cogli la rosa, is an Italian-language soprano aria by composer George Frideric Handel that has become a popular concert piece. Its melody is …
The Sonata No 1 in G Minor is part of the sonatas and partitas for solo violin (BWV 1001–1006), a set of six works composed by Johann Sebastian Bach. The …
Giuseppe Domenico Scarlatti (Naples, 26 October 1685 – Madrid, 23 July 1757) who wrote the Sonata in E Minor was an Italian composer. He is classified primarily as a Baroque …
