Publisher's Synopsis
(World's Greatest Classical Music). This collection includes 35 Baroque keyboard pieces by Bach, Buxtehude, Couperin, Handel, Lully, Pachelbel, Purcell, Scarlatti and others, and 18 transcriptions for piano of Baroque favorites by Bach, Handel, Pachelbel, Purcell and Vivaldi. Among the most famous music in the book is Air on the G String, Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring, selections from Water Music, selections from Messiah, and movements from The Four Seasons. As with the rest of the series, the edition is deliberately clean, without editorial markings, allowing a teacher or performer his or her own interpretive ideas. Contents: BACH: Aria, Goldberg Variations * French Suite No. 2 * Gigue from English Suite No. 2 * Menuet from French Suite No. 3 * Thee Well Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major, Prelude and Fugue No. 2 in C minor, Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in D Major, Prelude and Fugue No. 11 in F Major, Prelude and Fugue No. 16 in G minor, and Prelude and Fugue No. 21 in B-flat Major * BUXTEHUDE: Canzonetta * COUPERIN: The Alarm Clock * Trifles * The Trophy * DAGINCOURT: The Windmill * DANDRIEU: The Fifers * The Flirt * FRESCOBALDI: Toccata and Fugue * FROBERGER: Toccata * HANDEL: Prelude and Fugue from Suite No. 6 in F-sharp minor * LULLY: Allemande, Sarabande, and Gigue * Courante * Tender Song * PACHELBEL: Chaconne * Fugue * PURCELL: Suite No. 4 in A minor * Suite No. 6 in D Major * RAMEAU: Bird Calls * The Egyptian Lady * The Peasant Girl * SCARLATTI: Sonata in E Major, K. 380 * Sonata in G Major, K. 2 * Sonata in E minor, K. 402 * Sonata in D Major, K. 96 * Sonata in E Major, K. 403 * BACH: Air on the G String * Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1 * Bourree I from Cello Suite No. 3 in C Major * Arioso from Concerto No. 5 * Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring * Siciliano from Sonata No. 2 for Flute and Harpsicord * Sleepers, awake * HANDEL: Water Music: Air, Allegro, Allegro Maestoso * Hallelujah * Largo from Serse * Pastoral Symphony from Messiah * PACHELBEL: Canon in D Major * VIVALDI: Spring, 1st movement * Autumn, 1st & 3rd movements
