Baroque Sheet Music: Explore the Classics of a Golden Era

Combined with an introductory theme from the suite, the overture is among the most majestic Baroque music ever written. Perfectly set as a first full orchestra experience, the contrasting statements o...

Handel's Concerto in F major (HWV 331) was long considered a variant of two movements from the three suites of his 'Water Music' (HWV 348-350). Recently our understanding of the 'Water Music' had to b...

Zadok the priest' und 'The King shall rejoice' sind die beiden bekanntesten der insgesamt vier Coronation-Anthems, die Händel anlässlich der Krönung Georges II. 1727 in London schrieb. HWV 258 erklang...

Zadok the priest' und 'The King shall rejoice' sind die beiden bekanntesten der insgesamt vier Coronation-Anthems, die Händel anlässlich der Krönung Georges II. 1727 in London schrieb. HWV 258 erklang...

Music has been an important part of many theatrical performances in the British Isles since the 16th century. Many of G. F. Handel's favourites have also been performed in English dramas and ballad op...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s four orchestral suites (BA 5252–BA 5255) belong to that special group of Baroque orchestral works that have always been extremely popular and frequently performed. They likely...

Rameau's only extant opera based on a libretto by Voltaire has come down to us in two versions (1745 and 1746), that of 1745 having long been regarded as lost. Volume IV.12 of the 'Opera omnia Rameau'...

The new scholarly-critical edition of the score of Rameau's 'ballet héroïque' Les Indes galantes finally clears up its convoluted source history. At the first performance, on 23 August 1735, it consis...

This edition unites all the purely instrumental and dance numbers from one of Rameau's most popular operas, along with those from his last one-act opéra-ballet 'Io', which was left unfinished at the t...

Rameau's 'Hippolyte et Aricie' showcases great confusions amongst nymphs and gods. The opera represents a fascinating masterpiece of a Baroque 'Tragédie en musique' by the French composer. This editio...

From the Birthday Cantata, this familiar tune is filled with the infectious melodic material and mesmerizing harmonic content that are so characteristically Bach. The Best of Bach can be played with j...

“Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!” – this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell’s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of mu...

“Hail! bright Cecilia, hail to thee. Great patroness of us and harmony!” – this exclamation opens the final chorus of Henry Purcell’s eponymous Ode to St. Cecilia from 1692. A paean to the power of mu...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library attest. However, the copies he made for performances...

Johann Sebastian Bach appreciated the fine compositions of other masters, as evidenced by contemporary accounts and the surviving remnants of his music library. However, the copies he made for perform...