The Best of the Baroque Era

More than 2,500 recordings featuring music by some of the greatest Baroque Era composers — Bach, Vivaldi, Handel, and more — are on sale now at ArkivMusic! All titles are in stock, ready to ship, and deeply discounted from their regular prices.

Sale ends at 9:00am ET, Tuesday, December 17, 2024.

  • Vivaldi: Flute Concertos / Makhdoomi, Ensemble Piccante
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    Vivaldi: Flute Concertos / Makhdoomi, Ensemble Piccante

    $27.99 Regular price $40.99

    Selection of the most popular recorder concertos by Antonio Vivaldi; combined with arias and arrangements like "Winter" from "Le quattro stagioni".


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 09, 2024

  • Bach & Rheinberger: The Goldberg Variations / Liva, Valentini
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    Bach & Rheinberger: The Goldberg Variations / Liva, Valentini

    $12.99 Regular price $18.99

    Learn more about this recording on the Naxos Classical Spotlight podcast! The 19th-century reclamation of Bach’s music, spearhead by Mendelssohn and then Schumann, was later to be further developed most famously by Ferruccio Busoni. However,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 15, 2023

  • Philarmonica - Matteis, Purcell, & Mrs. Philarmonica / Le Consort
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    Philarmonica - Matteis, Purcell, & Mrs. Philarmonica / Le Consort

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    In the second half of the seventeenth century, London experienced an artistic golden age, with the arrival of many foreign musicians and the proliferation of theatres and concert halls wher e audiences came to listen...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 24, 2023

  • Bach: Chistmas in the Thomaskirche / Kuijken, La Petite Bande
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    Bach: Chistmas in the Thomaskirche / Kuijken, La Petite Bande

    $23.99 Regular price $34.99

    In the Baroque period, Leipzig's Thomaskirche was the most important venue for Protestant church music in Germany. Generations of excellent musicians who were highly esteemed in their day have performed here. Apart from the great...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 17, 2023

  • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. 1 / Sostmann
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    Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Vol. 1 / Sostmann

    $22.99 Regular price $33.99

    With his "Lyric Pieces", Edvard Grieg kept a kind of poetic piano diary: between 1867 and 1901 he wrote 66 short character pieces, which were published in ten booklets. Pieces such as "Wedding Day at...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 17, 2023

  • Burkard Schliessmann - Live
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    Burkard Schliessmann - Live

    $23.99 Regular price $35.99

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    Format: SACD

    Release Date: November 24, 2023

  • Charpentier, Cherubini & Lefebure-Wely: Noel sous l’empire / Guerillot
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    Charpentier, Cherubini & Lefebure-Wely: Noel sous l’empire / Guerillot

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    French organ music under Napoleon and the Restoration is an overlooked period in musical history, inheriting the glories of classical organ and heralding the great romantic organ music. This pivotal time, teeming with great performers...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 01, 2023

  • Bach: Orchestral Suites 2 & 3; Chaconne - Transcribed for Organ / Wolfgang Rübsam
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    Bach: Orchestral Suites 2 & 3; Chaconne - Transcribed for Organ / Wolfgang Rübsam

    $9.99 Regular price $13.99

    Over the course of more than half a century, Wolfgang Rübsam has consistently brought new insights to bear on the keyboard music of Bach, firstly in sets of the canonic organ music for Philips, then...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 17, 2023

  • J.S. Bach: Musical Offering / Haas, Ausonia
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    J.S. Bach: Musical Offering / Haas, Ausonia

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    At the end of his life, J.S. Bach, a living legend at the pinnacle of his art, met the music-loving, "enlightened" King Frederick who was to present him with the Royal Theme. This gift would...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 01, 2023

  • Vision.Bach, Vol. 1 - The First Cantata Year / Gaechinger Cantorey
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    Vision.Bach, Vol. 1 - The First Cantata Year / Gaechinger Cantorey

    $21.99 Regular price $32.99

    The ensemble of the Bachakademie, the Gaechinger Cantorey, plays under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann. For this purpose it comprises the instrumentalists and up to four vocalists per voice, including the soloists, all specialists in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 01, 2023

  • J.S. Bach: Fragments / Lorenzo Ghielmi
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    J.S. Bach: Fragments / Lorenzo Ghielmi

    $15.99 Regular price $22.99

    The catalogue of Johann Sebastian Bach's works comprises 1128 numbers, but he actually composed more than that: many compositions have unfortunately not survived to the present day. Some works, moreover, have reached us incomplete, either...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 01, 2023

  • A Cathedral of Sound - The Bach-Busoni Transcriptions / Madge
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    A Cathedral of Sound - The Bach-Busoni Transcriptions / Madge

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    Almost all major composers have written important transcriptions, some even reaching the status of a masterpiece. Transcriptions often reflect the period in which they were written. The Liszt-Bach transcriptions being very different from the masterly...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 01, 2023

  • Couperin: Sonatas for Violin & Haprischord / Mosca, Goy
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    Couperin: Sonatas for Violin & Haprischord / Mosca, Goy

    $12.99 Regular price $18.99

    It was to a young girl, in fact to a pupil, that Armand-Louis Couperin (b. Paris, 25th. February 1727 – d. Paris, 2nd. February 1789) dedicated his second set of harpsichord pieces. Anne-Louise-Marie de Beauvau-...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 01, 2023

  • Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni
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    Vivaldi: Le quattro stagioni

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    Vivaldi was already a renowned opera composer in Venice and throughout Italy, but he gained exceptional notoriety throughout Europe when the concerti constituting his Quattro Stagioni were published in Amsterdam. These theme concertos, which embraced...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 17, 2023

  • Bach 300 - 300 Years Bach in Leipzig
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    Bach 300 - 300 Years Bach in Leipzig

    From $21.99 Regular price $32.99

    An array of musical stars converges in Leipzig to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Johann Sebastian Bach taking up his appointment as Kantor at the city’s iconic Thomaskirche – a post that he occupied for...


    Format: DVD, Blu-Ray

    Release Date: November 17, 2023