Johan Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio BWV 248
Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Concentus Musicus Wien
Peter Schreier — Tenor
Robert Holl — Bass
Soloists of the Tolzer Knabenchor
Chorusmaster: Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden
Second Part: Cantatas No 4 — 6
Complete Opera (Best Version) — Links in description
The Fairy Queen (Semi-Opera Z. 629) by Henry Purcell (1692)
Performed by English Baroque Soloists
Conducted by John Eliot Gardiner
First Music
1. Prelude — 0:00
2. Hornpipe — 1:58
Second Music
3. Air — 2:53
4. Rondeau — 3:40
5. Overture — 5:10
Act I
6. Song In Two Parts: «Come, Come, Come, Let Us Leave» — 7:13
7. Scene Of The Drunken Poet: «Fill Up The Bowl» — 9:37
8. First Act Tune: Jig — 16:17
Act II
9. Prelude And Song: «Come All Ye Songsters Of The Sky» — 17:30
10. Prelude — 19:22
11. Trio: «May The God Of Wit Inspire» — 20:12
12. Echo — 21:16
13. Chorus: «Now Joyn Your Warbling Voices All» — 22:50
14. A Dance Of Fairies — 23:18
15. Song And Chorus: «Sing While We Trip It On The Green» — 24:02
16. Song: «See, Even Night Her Self Is Here» — 25:44
17. Song: «I Am Come To Lock All Fast» — 30:01
18. Song: «One Charming Night» — 31:12
19. Song And Chorus: «Hush, No More, Be Silent All» — 33:10
20. A Dance For The Followers Of Night — 36:30
21. Second Act Tune: Air — 38:21
Act III
22. A Song In Two Parts And Chorus: «If Loves A Sweet Passion» — 39:42
23. Overture: Symphony While The Swans Come Forward — 47:42
24. Dance For The Fairies — 49:45
25. Dance For The Green Men — 50:34
26. Song: «Ye Gentle Spirits Of The Air, Appear» — 52:02
27. Dialogue Between Coridon And Mopsa: «Now The Maids And The Men» — 57:07
28. Song: «When I Have Often Heard» — 1:01:03
29. A Dance Of Haymakers — 1:04:16
30. Song And Chorus: «A Thousand Thousand Ways Well Find» — 1:05:13
31. Third Act Tune: Hornpipe — 1:07:21
Act IV
32. Symphony — 1:08:21
33. Solo And Chorus: «Now The Night Is Chacd Away» — 1:14:32
34. Duet: «Let The Fifes, And The Clarions» — 1:16:38
35. Entry Of Phoebus — 1:18:34
36. Song: «When A Cruel Long Winter»-Chorus: «Hail! Great Parent Of Us All» — 1:19:10
37. Song: «Thus The Ever Grateful Spring» (Spring) — 1:23:28
38. Song: «Heres The Summer, Sprightly, Gay (Summer) — 1:25:25
39. Song: „See My Many Colourd Fields“ (Autumn) — 1:27:04
40. Song And Chorus: „Now Winter Comes Slowly“ (Winter) — 1:30:07
41. Fourth Act Tune: Air — 1:33:29
Act V
42. Prelude — 1:34:25
43. Epithalamium: „Thrice Happy Lovers“ — 1:35:32
44. The Plaint: „O Let Me Weep“ — 1:38:09
45. Entry Dance — 1:45:51
46. Symphony — 1:46:59
47. Song: „Thus The Gloomy World“ — 1:48:12
48. Solo And Chorus: „Thus Happy And Free“ — 1:53:55
49. Song: „Yes Daphne, In Your Looks I Find“ — 1:55:32
50. Monkeys Dance — 1:57:26
51. Song: „Hark How All Things“ — 1:58:28
52. Song And Chorus: „Hark! the Eching Air“ — 2:00:35
53. Duet And Chorus: „Sure The Dull God“ — 2:03:27
54. Prelude — 2:05:32
55. Solo: „See, See, I Obey“ — 2:06:04
56. Duet „Turn Then Thine Eyes“ — 2:08:02
57. Solo: „My Torch, Indeed“ — 2:09:27
58. Trio: They Shall Be As Happy» — 2:10:12
59. Air — 2:11:21
60. Chorus: «They Shall Be As Happy» — 2:12:51
61. Chaconne: Dance For Chinese Man And Woman — 2:14:01
The Art of Fugue or The Art of the Fugue (original German: Die Kunst der Fuge), BWV 1080, is an incomplete masterpiece by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685--1750). The work was most likely started at the beginning of the 1740s, if not earlier. The first known surviving version, which contained 12 fugues and 2 canons, was copied by the composer in 1745. This manuscript has a slightly different title, added afterwards by his son-in-law Johann Christoph Altnickol: Die Kunst der Fuga. Bachs second version was published in 1751 after his death. It contains 14 fugues and 4 canons. «The governing idea of the work», as the eminent Bach specialist Christoph Wolff put it, is «an exploration in depth of the contrapuntal possibilities inherent in a single musical subject.»
Structure
0:00 — Contrapunctus I
3:12 — Contrapunctus II
6:24 — Contrapunctus III
9:20 — Contrapunctus IV
14:38 — Contrapunctus V
17:55 — Contrapunctus VI in Stylo Francese
22:04 — Contrapunctus VII per Augmentationem et Diminutionem
26:04 — Contrapunctus VIII
32:06 — Contrapunctus IX alla Duodecima
35:06 — Contrapunctus X alla Decima
39:30 — Contrapunctus XI Triple fugue
46:41 — Canone allOttava
49:35 — Canone alla Duodecima in Contrapunto alla Quinta
51:52 — Canone alla Decima in Contrapunto alla Terza
56:36 — Canone per Augmentationem in Contrario Motu
1:01:27 — Contrapunctus XIII rectus
1:03:59 — Contrapunctus XIII inversus
1:06:57 — Contrapunctus XII rectus
1:09:50 — Contrapunctus XII inversus
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Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759) — The Keyboard Suites
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Keyboard Suite No.2 in F
I.Adagio (00:00) II.Allegro (03:28)
III.Adagio (05:41) IV.Fuga: Allegro (07:26)
Keyboard Suite No.3 in D minor
I.Prélude: Presto (10:02) II.Fuga: Allegro (11:04)
III.Allemande: Andantino quasi allegretto (13:26)
IV.Courante (16:57) V.Air: Lento non troppo (18:47)
VI.Presto (29:10)
Keyboard Suite No.5 in E
I.Prélude: Allegro moderato (33:49)
II.Allemande: Andantino quasi allegretto (35:37)
III.Courante: Allegro (40:24)
IV.Air con variazioni: Andantino (42:40)
Keyboard Suite No.8 in F minor
I.Prélude: Allegro (47:10) II.Fuga: Allegro (49:57)
III.Allemande: Allegro moderato (53:03)
IV.Courante: Allegro (55:55) V.Gigue: Presto (57:49)
Keyboard Suite No.9 in G minor
I.Allemande: Allegro con fuoco (1:00:05)
II.Courante: Allegro vivace (1:05:20)
III.Gigue: Presto (1:09:13)
Keyboard Suite No.12 in E minor
I.Allemande: Andante (1:13:49)
II.Sarabande: Allegro moderato (1:17:00)
III.Gigue: Vivo (1:20:05)
Keyboard Suite No.14 in G
I.Allemande (1:23:18) II.Allegro (1:25:18)
III.Courante: Allegro vivace (1:27:57)
IV.Air: Presto (1:30:55) V.Menuet: Vivace (1:32:27)
VI.Gavotte: Allegro (1:34:46) VII.Gigue: Presto (1:39:33)
Keyboard Suite No.16 in G minor
I.Allemande: Andantino quasi allegretto (1:41:59)
II.Courante: Allegro assai (1:44:34)
III.Sarabande: Andante (1:46:39)
IV.Gigue: Presto (1:50:11)
Piano: Sviatoslav Richter
Live recording in 1979, at France, Château de Marcilly-Sur-Maulne (Tours Festival)
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