The Classic 100 Baroque & Before: The Top 10 & Selected Highlights (2014)

Track Listing

1. Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: Hallelujah!
2. Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in E major ("La Primavera"), RV 269, Op. 8/1 (The Four Seasons; "Il cimento" No. 1): 1. Allegro
3. Miserere mei Deus (Psalm 51), motet for chorus:
4. Water Music Suite No. 1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348: 6. Air
5. St. Matthew Passion (Matthäuspassion), for soloists, double chorus & double orchestra, BWV 244 (BC D3b): Mache dich, mein Herze, rein (Purify Yourself, My Heart)

1. Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: Hallelujah!
2. Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in E major ("La Primavera"), RV 269, Op. 8/1 (The Four Seasons; "Il cimento" No. 1): 1. Allegro
3. Miserere mei Deus (Psalm 51), motet for chorus:
4. Water Music Suite No. 1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348: 6. Air
5. St. Matthew Passion (Matthäuspassion), for soloists, double chorus & double orchestra, BWV 244 (BC D3b): Mache dich, mein Herze, rein (Purify Yourself, My Heart)
6. Canon and gigue, for 3 violins & continuo in D major, T. 337: 1. Canon
7. Dido and Aeneas, opera, Z. 626: Thy Hand, Belinda... When I Am Laid in Earth (Dido's Lament)
8. Zadok the Priest, coronation anthem No. 1 for chorus & orchestra, HWV 258
9. Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351: 4. La Réjouissance (Rejoicing)
10. Spem in Alium (also set as "Sing and glorify"), motet for 40 voices, P. 299
11. Concerto for 2 violins, strings & continuo in D minor ("Double"), BWV 1043: 2. Largo, ma non tanto
12. Goldberg Variations, for keyboard, BWV 988 (BC L9) (Clavier-Übung IV): Aria and Variation 1
13. Gloria, for 3 solo voices, chorus, trumpet, oboe, violin (ad lib), 2 violas, 2 cellos, strings & continuo in D major, RV 589: 1. Gloria in excelsis Deo (Glory to God in the Highest)
14. Suite for solo cello No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007: 1. Prelude
15. Stabat mater, for soprano, alto, strings & organ in F minor: 1. Stabat mater dolorosa (The mother stood in sorrow)
16. Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048: 1. (Allegro)
17. Cantata No. 147, "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben," BWV 147 (BC A174): Jesus bleibet meine Freude (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring)
18. Mass in B minor, for soloists, chorus & orchestra, BWV 232 (BC E1): Christe eleison
19. Vespro della Beata Vergine, for chorus & instruments, SV 206: Nigra sum sed formosa (I am black, but comely)
20. Toccata and Fugue, for organ in D minor, BWV 565 (BC J37): 1. Toccata
21. Solomon, oratorio, HWV 67: The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba
22. The Well-Tempered Clavier (24), collection of preludes & fugues, Book I, BWV 846-869 (BC L80-103): Prelude in C major, BWV 846
23. Flow, my tears, fall from your springs, for 2 voices & lute (Second Book of Songs)
24. Brandenburg Concerto No. 6 in B flat major, BWV 1051: 1. (Allegro)
25. Giulio Cesare in Egitto, opera, HWV 17: Piangerò la sorte mia (I Will Lament My Fate)
26. Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: 2. Air "Air on the G String"
27. La favola d'Orfeo, opera, SV 318: Toccata & Prologue (La Musica) (Excerpt)
28. Concerto à cinque, for oboe, 2 violins, viola, cello & continuo No. 2 in D minor, Op. 9/2, (T. 9/2): 2. Adagio
29. Magnificat, for 5 voices, 5-part chorus, orchestra & continuo in D major, BWV 243 (BC E14): 1. Magnificat anima mea Dominum (My Soul Magnifies the Lord)
30. O ecclesia occuli tui, sequence for Saint Ursula & her Companions
31. Sonata for violin & continuo in G minor, B. g5 ("The Devil's Trill"): 3. Andante - Allegro
32. Concerto for violin, strings & continuo No. 2 in E major, BWV 1042: 3. Allegro assai