BAROQUE TITLES IN BRIEF

Purcell: Love Restor’d – Songs from the English Restoration

Early music ensemble Ceruleo presents an album of music from restoration-era England. Featuring works by Henry Purcell, John Blow, and John Eccels, the album looks at the dramatic character of English restoration music and its relationship to the theatrical tradition of the time. (Resonus)

1CD# RES10308 $16.99

Neander: Psalter und Harffe Wacht Auff

Before Joachim Neander’s death in 1780, he had succeeded in completing his booklet entitled “Belief and Love Exercise. Topped by covenant-songs and psalms of thanksgiving”. It comprises 58 titles of which he arranged 43 himself and marked 17 with the note “own melody”. About half of the pieces can be heard on the album in alternating sequences of solo or duet vocals. (Cantate)

1CD# CAN58056 $14.99

Guerre: The Violin Sonatas of 1707

This release showcases the three violin sonatas that Elisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre composed in 1707. The artists featured here –violinist Dana Maiben, gambist Sarah Cunningham, and harpsichordist Lisa Goode Crawford- are experts in historical performance practice and give these works the life they deserve. (Centaur Records)

1CD# CRC3988 $15.99

Handel: Five Great Suites for Harpsichord (London, 1720)

George Frideric Handel made a name for himself as a brilliant organist and harpsichordist early on in his career. In November 1720, he published the Suites de Piecespour le Clavecin, now known as the Eight Great Suites, his most important work for harpsichord. The spectacular Eight Great Suites show Handel the harpsichordist at his best. (Challenge)

1CD# CC 72923 $16.99

Scarlatti: Complete Piano Sonatas, Vol. 8 / Christoph Ullrich [2 CDs]

Christoph Ullrich presents Vol. 8 of the complete recording of all 555 sonatas by Domenic Scarlatti. He knows how to shape these gems, which seem to have been written for him, with such never-ending imagination. (Tacet)

2CD# TACET275 $21.99

Schein: Israels Brunnlein [2 CDs]

Johann Hermann Schein commands the various stylistic phenomena with aplomb, committed only to the affects and the expression. (CPO)

2CD# 555459-2 $33.99

Patino: Musica Vocal en Castellano

In addition to his vocal production in Latin, Carlos Patiño cultivated various musical genres in Spanish, mainly tonos and villancicos. (Lauda)

1CD# LAU023 $18.99

Sammartini: The Celebrated San Martini – Recorder Sonatas

Giuseppe Sammartini was a famous oboist and highly respected composer of the late Baroque period who made his great career in London from 1720. (Pan Classics)

1CD# PC10443 $18.99