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.

Prelude in G, BWV 902 [J. S. Bach] ; Suite in Eb, BWV 819: 3rd movement, Sarabande (plain and ornamented versions) [J. S. Bach] ; Allemande dite l'Affligee [Chambonnieres] ; Les Moissonneurs, from 6th Ordre, 'Pieces de Clavecin,' Book 2 [F Couperin] ; Chaconne in G minor [L Couperin] ; Gavotte in G, from 'Pieces de Clavecin' [D'Anglebert] ; Sarabande in G minor, from 'Pieces de Clavecin' [D'Anglebert] ; Prelude and Fugue No. 5 in Eb, from 'Ariadne Musica' [J. C. F. Fischer] ; Aria detto Balletto in C, from 'Il secondo Libro di Toccate' [Frescobaldi] ; Lamento in C [Froberger] ; Allemande in D minor, from Suite No. 3 in D minor (1720 coll.), HWV 428 [George Frideric Handel] ; Canzona in D minor [Kerll] ; Sonata quarta in C mior 'Hiskia agonizzante e risanto' [Kuhnau] ; Rigaudon in F, from 'Componimenti Musicali per il cembalo' [Muffat] ; Aria quarta in G minor, from 'Hexachordum Apollinis' [Pachelbel] ; Variationi sopra la Follia [Pasquini] ; Allemande in D [Poglietti] ; A New Ground, Z. T682 [H. Purcell] ; Les Tendres Plaintes, from