Baroque Listening List

  1. Caccini
    Solo Madrigals
  2. Monteverdi
    • Orfeo,

    • Lamento
    • d’Arianna,
    • L’incoronazione di Poppea
    • Madrigals
    • Book 8

  3. Heinrich Schutz

    • Sacred Symphonies III

    • (sacred concerto)
    • CDISC
    • 17371

  4. Pietro Francesco Cavalli

    • Giasone (opera)

    • CDS
    • 901282

  5. Giacomo Carissimi

    • Jephte (oratorio)

    • CDISC
    • 13374

  6. Barbara Strozzi

    • Sacri musicali affetti (secular

    • cantata)
    • CDISC
    • 01111

  7. Antonio Cesti

    • Orontea (opera)

    • CDS
    • 901100

  8. Louis Couperin

    • Unmeasured

    • Preludes/Suites (keyboard
    • suites)
    • CDISC
    • 22292

  9. Jean-Baptiste Lully

    • Atys (opera)

    • CDS
    • 90125
    • Armide (opera)
    • CDISC
    • 03359
    • Te Deum (opera?)
    • CDS
    • 592308

  10. Dieterich Buxtehude

    • Passacaglia in D minor CDS

    • 3268
    • * (listen
    • to random organ works - differentiate between him and Bach!)

  11. Marc-Antoine Charpentier (just ‘cause I can, hehe)

    • Médée

    • CDISC
    • 20616
    • Te Deum
    • CDISC
    • 02924

  12. Tomas de Torrejon y Velasco

    • La purpura de la rosa
    • CDISC
    • 03298

  13. John Blow

    • Venus and Adonis

    • CDS
    • 901276
  14. Arcangelo Corelli
    • La Follia (Op. 5)

    • CDISC
    • 20006
    • Concerti grossi (Op. 6)
    • CDISC
    • 03425
    • Sonate a tre (Op. 1)
    • CDISC
    • 08599

  15. Marin Marais

    • Alcyone
    • CDS
    • 455222

  16. Henry Purcell

    • Dido and Aeneas

    • CDS
    • 984772
    • King Arthur
    • CDISC
    • 05030

  17. Alessandro Scarlatti

    • La Griselda
    • CDISC
    • 09875

  18. Johann Christoph Pepusch

    • The Beggar’s Opera
    • CDISC
    • 12742
  19. Elizabeth Jacquet de la Guerre
    • Pieces de clavecin
    • CDISC 03027

  20. Francois Couperin

    • L’art de toucher le

    • clavecin
    • CDISC
    • 01062
    • Pieces de clavecin, Book 2
    • CDISC
    • 01200

  21. Antonio Vivaldi

    • L’estro armonico

    • (Op. 3)
    • CDISC
    • 03336
    • Le quattre stagione
    • Various
    • Motezuma
    • CDISC
    • 18470


  22. George Philip Telemann

    • * Hard to choose - he was so prolific! Here are a few options, but I would go

    • through the anthologies and see what their examples for him are:
    • Overture in G minor, TWV 55:g4
    • Various
    • Trauer Actus
    • CDISC
    • 08161
    • Orchestral Suites: Burlesque de Quixote
    • CDISC
    • 11001

  23. Jean-Phillippe Rameau

    • Hippolyte et Aricie
    • CIDSC
    • 02708

  24. Johann Sebastian Bach (how to choose??)

    • Jesu, der du meine

    • Seele BWV 78
    • CDISC
    • 03822 v. 25
    • Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 140
    • CDISC
    • 19207 v. 4 disc 6
    • Schweigt still, plaudert nicht (Coffee
    • Cantata) BWV 211
    • CDS
    • 550641
    • St. Matthew Passion
    • CDISC
    • 03792
    • French
    • Suites
    • CDISC
    • 09810
    • Well
    • Tempered Clavier Bk 1
    • CDISC
    • 15807
    • Brandenburg
    • Concertos
    • CDISC
    • 19207 v. 1 disc 1
    • CDISC
    • 19207 v. 1 disc 2
    • Goldberg
    • Variations
    • CDISC
    • 18169
    • Die Kunst der Fuge
    • CDISC
    • 19656 (orchestra)
    • Mass
    • in B minor
    • CDISC
    • 790362

  25. Domenico Scarlatti

    • Keyboard Sonatas

    • CDS
    • 453092 v. 1-9
    • * (there
    • are a TON of these - just listen for style, not for knowing specific examples)


  26. George Frideric Handel (HOW TO CHOOSE??????)



    • Rinaldo

    • CDISC
    • 08814
    • Giulio
    • Cesare
    • CDISC
    • 19085
    • Tamerlano
    • CDS
    • 88220
    • Saul
    • CDISC
    • 11155
    • Messiah
    • CDISC
    • 14840
    • Water
    • Music
    • CDISC
    • 08107
    • Music
    • for the Royal Fireworks
    • SAME
  27. Johann Adolphe Hasse

    • Cleofide

    • CDS
    • 10193
  28. Giovanni Battista Pergolesi




    • La Serva Padrona

    • CDISC
    • 04040
    • Stabat Mater
    • CDISC
    • 16967
  29. Vocal Music




    • Sacred Concerto: composition on a sacred text for one or

    • more voices, with instrumental
    • accompaniment
    • * Symphoniae Sacrae, Heinrich Schutz
    • Mass:
    • * B Minor Mass, Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Oratorio:
    • * Messiah, George Frideric Handel
    • * Saul, George Frideric Handel
    • * Jephte, Giacomo Carissimi
    • Cantata:* Trauer Actus: Ach wie nichtig, ach wie
    • fluchtig, Georg Philip Telemann
    • * Jesu, der du meine Seele, Johann
    • Sebastian Bach
    • * Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, Johann
    • Sebastian Bach
    • Motet:
    • * Te Deum, Marc-Antoine Charpentier
    • * Te Deum, Jean-Baptiste Lully
    • * Stabat Mater, Giovanni Battista
    • Pergolesi
    • Anthem:* God Spake Sometimes in Visions, John
    • Blow
    • Passion:
    • * St. Matthew Passion, Johann Sebastian
    • Bach
    • Hymn:
  30. Instrumental Music




    • Chorale Prelude

    • * (I
    • would listen to random ones by Bach, or any that you come across in the
    • anthologies)
  31. Secular Vocal Music

    • Opera:* Giasone, Pietro Francesco Cavalli

    • * Orontea, Antonio Cesti
    • * Atys, Jean-Baptiste Lully
    • * Armide, Jean-Baptiste Lully
    • * Médée, Marc-Antoine Charpentier
    • * La purpura de la rosa, Tomas de Torrejon
    • y Velasco
    • * Venus and Adonis, John Blow
    • * Alcyone, Marin Marais
    • * Dido and Aeneas, Henry Purcell
    • * La Griselda, Alessandro Scarlatti
    • * Hippolyte et Aricie, Jean-Philippe
    • Rameau
    • * Rinaldo, George Frideric Handel
    • * Giulio Cesare, George Frideric Handel
    • * Tamerlano, George Frideric Handel
    • * Cleofide, Johann Adolph Hasse
    • * The Beggar’s Opera, Johann Christoph
    • Pepusch
    • **Recitative
    • **Lament
    • **Arioso
    • **Da
    • capo aria
    • **Aria
    • cantabile
    • **Aria
    • di portamento
    • **Aria
    • mezzo carattere
    • **Aria
    • parlante
    • **Aria
    • di bravura (aria agilita)
    • Solo
    • madrigal:
    • Cantata
    • da camera:
    • * Sacri musicali affetti, Barbara Strozzi
    • * Schweigt still, plaudert nicht, Johann
    • Sebastian Bach (secular cantata)
    • Comedie-ballet:
    • Masque:
    • * King Arthur, Henry Purcell
    • Serenata:
    • Ode:
    • Intermezzo:
    • * La Serva Padrona, Giovanni Battista
    • Pergolesi
  32. Keyboard Music

    • Keyboard Suite:

    • * Unmeasured
    • preludes/suites, Louis Couperin
    • * Pieces de clavecin, Elisabeth Jacquet de
    • la Guerre
    • * L’art de toucher le clavecin, Francois
    • Couperin
    • * Pieces de clavecin, 1-4 books, Francois
    • Couperin
    • * French Suites, Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Prelude:
    • Allemande:
    • Courante:
    • Sarabande:
    • Gavotte:
    • Gigue:
    • Bourree:
    • Passepied:
    • Toccata:
    • Passacaglia:
    • * Passacaglia in D minor, Dieterich
    • Buxtehude
    • Praeludium:
    • * Praeludium BuxWV 137, Dieterich
    • Buxtehude
    • Fugue:
    • * Well Tempered Clavier, Book 1, Johann
    • Sebastian Bach
    • * Die Kunst der Fuge, Johann Sebastian
    • Bach
    • Variations:
    • * Goldberg Variations (Clavierubung 4),
    • Johann Sebastian Bach
    • Sonata:
    • * Keyboard Sonatas, Domenico Scarlatti


  33. Orchestral Music



    • Ensemble Sonata:

    • Solo
    • Sonata:
    • Concerto:
    • * L’estro armonico, op. 3, Antonio Vivaldi
    • Concerto
    • Grosso:
    • * Brandenburg Concerti, 3-5, Johann
    • Sebastian Bach
    • * Le quattre stagione, Antonio Vivaldi
    • * Concerti Grossi, op. 6, Arcangelo
    • Corelli
    • Trio
    • Sonata:
    • Sonata
    • da chiesa:
    • * Sonate a tre, op. 1, Arcangelo Corelli
    • Sonata
    • da camera:
    • Follia:
    • * La Follia, Arcangelo Corelli
    • Sinfonia:
    • Orchestral
    • Suite:
    • * Water Music, George Frideric Handel
    • * Music for the Royal Fireworks, George
    • Frideric Handel
    • * Burlesque de Quixotte, Georg Philip
    • Telemann
    • * Overture in G minor TWV 55:g4, Georg
    • Philip Telemann
    • Tombeaux:
    • French
    • Overture:
    • * Atys overture, Jean-Baptiste Lully
    • * Armide overture, Jean-Baptiste Lully
    • * Médée overture, Marc-Antoine Charpentier
    • * Dido and Aeneas overture, Henry Purcell
    • * Certain
    • movements of Francois Couperin’s harpsichord suites
    • * Overture in g minor, first movement,
    • Georg Phillip Telemann
    • * Messiah overture, GF Handel
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