A collection of the keyboard music of the period 1600-1750, offering a fairly representative selection of the forms, styles and composers of that period. Provides both scholarly performing editions and sources of enlightenment on performance conventions. Edited by Dr Richard Jones, a leading Bach scholar.

New Aire in Bb [Anon.], Sonata No. 5 in Bb: 2nd movement, Gavotta [Thomas Arne], Suite in A minor, BWV 818a: 5th movement, Menuet [Johann Sebastian Bach], Jigg in B minor [John Barrett], Aire in G minor [John Blow], Gavot in Gamut (G minor) [John Blow], Rigaudon and Trio in D [Carl Bohm / (no name)], Courante in D minor [Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres], Sarabande 'Jeunes Zephirs', from 'Les Pieces de Clavessin', Book 2 [Jacques Champion de Chambonnieres], A Farewell [Jeremiah Clarke], La Bourbonnoise: Gavotte, from 1st Ordre, 'Pieces de Clavecin', Book 1 [Francois Couperin], Menuet de Poitou in A minor [Louis Couperin], Saraband in C minor [William Croft], Suite No. 1 in G: 12th movement, Menuet [Jean-Henri D'Anglebert], La Flateuse: Rondeau, from 'Pieces de Clavecin', Book 3 [Jean-Francois Dandrieu], Suite No. 3: 3rd movement, L'Amusante, Part 1 [Louis-Claude Daquin], Suite No. 5 in F: 7th movement, Gigue [Charles Dieupart], Bourree and Menuet in A minor, from 'Musicalisches Blumen- Buschlein' [Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer], Corrente quarta in G minor [Giralomo Frescobaldi], Corrente terza in F [Giralomo Frescobaldi], Marche in G [Christoph Graupner], Aria in A, from 'Neuer Clavier Ubung', Part 1 [Johann Kuhnau], Gavotte in B minor, from 'Neuer Clavier Ubung', Part 2 [Johann Kuhnau], Symphony in G minor [William Lawes], Rant in D, from 'Melothesia' [Matthew Locke], Minuet in A, from '6 Suits or Lessons for the harpsichord or spinnet' [Jean Baptiste Loeillet], Menuet in D minor, from 'Pieces de Clavecin', Book 1 [Louis Marchand], Air in A, from 'Pieces de Clavecin' [Johann Mattheson], Menuet in D, from 'Componimenti Musicali per il cembalo' [Georg Muffat], Suite in G [Bernardo Pasquini], Suite in C, Z. 665: 1st and 2nd movements, Prelude and Almond [Henry Purcell], Suite No. 6 in D, Z. 667: 3rd movement, Hornpipe [Henry Purcell], Menuet I in G and Menuet II in G minor, from 'Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin' [Jean-Philippe Rameau], Sonata in A, Kp. 453 [Domenico Scarlatti], Menuet in G minor [Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel], Gavotte en Rondeau in F, from 'Der getreue Music-Meister' [Georg Philipp Telemann], Menuet-Trio in G minor, BWV 929, from 'Clavierbuchlein for W. F. Bach' [Johann Sebastian Bach], Air in F, from the 'Water Music', HWV 464 [George Frideric Handel], Minuet in G minor, from Suite No. 1 in Bb (1727 coll.), HWV 434 [George Frideric Handel]