Baroque Sheet Music: Explore the Classics of a Golden Era

The Passacaglia is a composition on a recurring bass line with ever-new variations in the melody voices. Falconiero's Passacaglia from Il Primo Libro was original written for three instruments and bas...

Sol da te mio dolce amore, extrait de l'opéra Orlando furioso d'Antonio Vivaldi, est un envoûtant largo écrit pour flûte traversière, chant et orchestre à cordes. Le long solo de flûte traversière, qu...

Extrait d'Andromeda liberata, l'air 'Sovvente il sole' offre une ligne mélodique magnifique, un dialogue émouvant entre le héros Persée et le violon solo. S'inspirant de la légende grecque d'Andromède...

Das bei Edition Butorac erscheinende Konzert für Oboe, Violine, Streicher und Basso continuo in c-moll (BWV 1060R) von Johann Sebastian Bach ist eine Rekonstruktion, d.h. es ist weder ein Autograph no...

The cantata for the 20th Sunday after Trinity. 'Ah! I see now, as I to the wedding bidden', BWV 162 was first performed on 25 October 1716 in the Castle church at Weimar. During the first year in his...

Im Jahr 1729 übernahm Bach in Leipzig die Leitung des einst von Telemann gegründeten 'Collegium musicum' und konzertierte daraufhin mindestens einmal wöchentlich mit diesem Ensemble im Zimmermannschen...

Im Jahr 1729 übernahm Bach in Leipzig die Leitung des einst von Telemann gegründeten 'Collegium musicum' und konzertierte daraufhin mindestens einmal wöchentlich mit diesem Ensemble im Zimmermannschen...

In 1729, Bach took over the direction of the "Collegium musicum" in Leipzig, which had once been founded by Telemann, and subsequently gave concerts with this ensemble at least once a week in Zimmerma...

Die Bauernkantate BWV 212 ist in Bachs Kantatenschaffen sowohl inhaltlich als auch musikalisch ein echtes Unikat. Zwar gehört sie zu Bachs Huldigungskantaten, doch handelt der Text nur indirekt vom Lo...

What does Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the summer of 1733, the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Elector Friedrich Christian on 5 Se...

What does Bach's "Christmas Oratorio" have to do with Hercules? More than you might think at first glance. In the summer of 1733, the eleventh birthday of the Saxon Elector Friedrich Christian on 5 Se...

Probably following a special Leipzig tradition, Bach added four extra movements to the first version of his Magnificat BWV 243a (in E flat major); these can be inserted in performances of the Magnific...

Probably following a special Leipzig tradition, Bach added four extra movements to the first version of his Magnificat BWV 243a (in E flat major); these can be inserted in performances of the Magnific...

Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott BWV 80 (CV31080-00) is one of Johann Sebastian Bach's most frequently-performed cantatas. But the well-known form of the work, with its great opening chorale chorus, repr...

Great Baroque church music full of color and powerful imagery! 'Sing to the Lord a new song! Sing, rejoice and praise his holy name with the trumpets and cornetts! And nature shall join in, the seas s...

Experience a sacred choral work of moving depth and timeless beauty with the evocative "Miserere in d". This piece captivates through its mesmerizing musical language, exquisitely tailored to the expr...

The opera Cleofide by Johann Adolf Hasse was part of an ambitious plan to revive the art of Italian opera at the Saxon court. The dramatic plot - about Alexander the Great’s conquests in India - is br...