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.

  • Handel: Julius Caesar in Egypt / Mehta, Alder, Bolton, Concentus Musicus Wien
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    Handel: Julius Caesar in Egypt / Mehta, Alder, Bolton, Concentus Musicus Wien

    From $29.99 Regular price $44.99

    Triumphantly premiered in 1724 at the King’s Theatre in London, George Frideric Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto masterfully combines human emotions: Triumph with sorrow, despair with happiness and love with profound melancholy in the face...


    Format: DVD, Blu-Ray

    Release Date: September 23, 2022

  • Bach, Handel et al: Amore Traditore - Italian Cantatas in Germany / Borgioni, Feder, Padoin
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    Bach, Handel et al: Amore Traditore - Italian Cantatas in Germany / Borgioni, Feder, Padoin

    $11.99 Regular price $16.99

    A one-off in Bach’s output, Amore traditore is a model in style and structure of the Italian chamber cantata and although the surviving manuscript score is not in Bach’s own hand, careful stylistic analysis has...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 16, 2022

  • Bach: Harpsichord Concertos, Vol. 1 - BWV 1053 & 1055 / Sarrechia, La Petite Bande
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    Bach: Harpsichord Concertos, Vol. 1 - BWV 1053 & 1055 / Sarrechia, La Petite Bande

    $14.99 Regular price $21.99

    Johann Sebastian Bach has always been a fixing point in the musical cosmos of Sigiswald Kuijken and La Petite Bande. Over the years, the ensemble recorded the cantatas for an entire church year, the great...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 16, 2022

  • Christus Natus Est: Sacred Christmas Duets / Deux Classical Vocal Duo
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    Christus Natus Est: Sacred Christmas Duets / Deux Classical Vocal Duo

    $12.99 Regular price $17.99

    While Crystal Jarrell Johnson and Angela Malek have long enjoyed thriving careers as soloists, they have always genuinely preferred collaboration. Both singers are professionally based out of San Antonio, and in the fall of 2017...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 16, 2022

  • Handel: Amadigi of Gaula / Mead, Dennis, Bevan, Early Opera Company
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    Handel: Amadigi of Gaula / Mead, Dennis, Bevan, Early Opera Company

    $28.99 Regular price $42.99

    Countertenor Tim Mead leads an all-star cast in the Early Opera Company’s recording of Handel’s Amadigi di Gaula, conducted by Christian Curnyn. The opera was first performed in London in 1715, in the first season...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: September 16, 2022

  • Vivaldi: Serenata a tre, RV 690 / Sardelli, Modo Antiquo
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    Vivaldi: Serenata a tre, RV 690 / Sardelli, Modo Antiquo

    $14.99 Regular price $21.99

    The Serenata a 3, RV 690, is the least familiar and in certain respects the most enigmatic of the Vivaldi serenatas. The sole surviving source is the autograph manuscript of the score, preserved at the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 16, 2022

  • Scarlatti: Violin Sonatas / Begelman, Arsenale Sonoro
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    Scarlatti: Violin Sonatas / Begelman, Arsenale Sonoro

    $12.99 Regular price $18.99

    The place of Domenico Scarlatti in the history of 18th century music is certainly exceptional. This exquisite and imaginative group of works is included in the fourteenth volume of Scarlatti’s manuscript sonatas preserved in the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 16, 2022

  • Handel: Amadigi Di Gaula
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    Handel: Amadigi Di Gaula

    $31.99 Regular price $47.99

    Countertenor Tim Mead leads an all-star cast in the Early Opera Company's recording of Handel's Amadigi di Gaula, conducted by Christian Curnyn. The opera was first performed in London in 1715, in the first season...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: September 16, 2022

  • Locatelli, Razzi & Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus / Zaïcik, Dumestre, Le poème harmonique
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    Locatelli, Razzi & Vivaldi: Nisi Dominus / Zaïcik, Dumestre, Le poème harmonique

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    In the seventeenth century, the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice took in young orphan girls who received advanced musical instruction. The concerts given there attracted visitors from all over the world, curious to hear these...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2022

  • Bach: The 6 Cello Suites Played on Violin / Carmignola
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    Bach: The 6 Cello Suites Played on Violin / Carmignola

    $19.99 Regular price $29.99

    An eminent interpreter of Vivaldi, Giuliano Carmignola has always had a great affinity with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, as can be heard in his landmark recordings of the Violin Sonatas with Andrea Marcon...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2022

  • Bach, Braun, Flackton & Telemann: Delicacy / Henrichs
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    Bach, Braun, Flackton & Telemann: Delicacy / Henrichs

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    German viola player Nadine Henrichs presents an exquisite collection of original works and arrangements for viola from the 18th century. Most pieces are soloistic, while two sonatas by Flackton and Bach are for small chamber...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 09, 2022

  • Impromptu
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    Impromptu

    $14.99 Regular price $21.99

    A common genre on the piano since Franz Schubert, there are far fewer impromptus for the harp than one might think. Sarah O'Brien, longtime principal harpist of the Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam and the Munich Philharmonic,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 02, 2022

  • Synergy / Sharon Bezaly, Swedish Chamber Orchestra
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    Synergy / Sharon Bezaly, Swedish Chamber Orchestra

    $14.99 Regular price $21.99

    On Synergy, flautist Sharon Bezaly and her musician friends demonstrate that one plus one can be much greater than two. Featuring works that celebrate the coming together of like-minded musicians, this project is a reminder,...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: September 02, 2022

  • Bach: Masses / Christophers, The Sixteen
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    Bach: Masses / Christophers, The Sixteen

    $21.99 Regular price $32.99

    Bach’s four Lutheran Masses feature almost no Lutheran material at all. Sometimes called ‘Missa brevis’, musically they are almost entirely made up of movements borrowed from Bach’s Cantatas. While often overshadowed by the more famous...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 02, 2022

  • Bram van Sambeek plays Bach on the Bassoon
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    Bram van Sambeek plays Bach on the Bassoon

    $14.99 Regular price $21.99

    Following a rock/metal album recorded with his band ORBI [BIS-2297], Bram van Sambeek returns with his own idea of a dance album. For it he has selected four works by Johann Sebastian Bach that consist...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: September 02, 2022