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.

  • Telemann: Johannis-Oratorium / Willens, Choir of the Cologne Academy
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    Telemann: Johannis-Oratorium / Willens, Choir of the Cologne Academy

    $12.99 Regular price $18.99

    In the church year 1730/31, Telemann performed a volume of special conception: Regular oratorios were to be heard in the church service. And so the focus of our latest Telemann album is his magnificent oratorio...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 01, 2022

  • J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos / Musica Amphion, Yamagata, Belder, Gómez
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    J.S. Bach: Harpsichord Concertos / Musica Amphion, Yamagata, Belder, Gómez

    $12.99 Regular price $17.99

    Piano concertos from Beethoven to Brahms to Busoni and beyond are all indebted to the example of Bach in his Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, and its liberation of the harpsichord from continuo support to virtuoso soloist,...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2022

  • Handel: Italian Cantatas / Fantazyas, Colombo,  Albertini, Fumagalli, Balconi
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    Handel: Italian Cantatas / Fantazyas, Colombo, Albertini, Fumagalli, Balconi

    $9.99 Regular price $13.99

    In 1706, 21-year-old Handel arrived in Italy as a prodigious celebrity, already having caught the eye and won the patronage of the Medici family in Florence. Further honors and rewards were heaped on him when...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2022

  • Bach: Motets / Fuget, La Chapelle Harmonique
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    Bach: Motets / Fuget, La Chapelle Harmonique

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    The Motets are singular masterpieces in Bach's output. They were all composed in Leipzig between 1727 and 1730 for exceptional ceremonies: the funeral services of important figures. Each motet is a virtuoso composition for double...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2022

  • Corell & Melani: Trionfo Romano / de Negri, Resche-Caserta, Ensembles EXIT & Hemiola
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    Corell & Melani: Trionfo Romano / de Negri, Resche-Caserta, Ensembles EXIT & Hemiola

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    The most impressive public celebration in baroque Rome was given in honor of Louis XIV in 1686. To celebrate the undisputed protector of the Catholic Church, and one year later the successful operation on the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2022

  • The Hibernian Muse - Music for Ireland by Purcell and Cousser
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    The Hibernian Muse - Music for Ireland by Purcell and Cousser

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    Continuing their investigation into the wealth of forgotten Baroque music from Ireland, the Irish Baroque Orchestra and its Music Director Peter Whelan now explore music by Cousser and Purcell. Johann Sigismund Kusser or Cousser was...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2022

  • Bach & Part
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    Bach & Part

    $11.99 Regular price $16.99

    Young Danish-Hungarian organist David Bendix Nielsen makes his solo album debut with a recording that weaves the music of J.S. Bach and Arvo P�rt into a rich recital. By combining composers with such apparently different...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2022

  • Plucked Bach: Cello Suites nos. 1 & 2 on Plucked Strings / Sariel
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    Plucked Bach: Cello Suites nos. 1 & 2 on Plucked Strings / Sariel

    $12.99 Regular price $17.99

    Alon Sariel makes his PENTATONE debut with Plucked Bach, a program exploring Bach’s cello suites performed on different mandolins, lutes, baroque guitar and oud, concluding with Sariel’s own Bach-inspired Mandolin Partita. Bach’s suites are often...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2022

  • Scarlatti: Sonatas / Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy
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    Scarlatti: Sonatas / Wolfram Schmitt-Leonardy

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    ‘An eagle whose wings are grown,’ according to his father Alessandro, the young Scarlatti left his native Naples for Venice, ‘escorted only by his own ability.’ By his early 20s he had already held audiences...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 24, 2022

  • J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, & Telemann: The Privileged Oboe / Korol, Michelangeli, Black,Trefflinger
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    J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach, & Telemann: The Privileged Oboe / Korol, Michelangeli, Black,Trefflinger

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    Of the six works recorded here by J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach and G.F. Telemann (father, son and godfather), only two of them were specifically composed for the oboe, namely the g-minor sonata by C.P.E. Bach...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 17, 2022

  • Bach, Reincken, Scheidemann & Schluter: Holy Spirit / Schlüter
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    Bach, Reincken, Scheidemann & Schluter: Holy Spirit / Schlüter

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    The Trost organ of the Waltershausen Stadtkirche in Thuringia is considered a reference instrument of the baroque period and thus offers an ideal and authentic opportunity to rediscover the organ music of Johann Sebastian Bach...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 17, 2022

  • Vivaldi: Juditha triumphans / Mancini, Biscuola, Zarpellon, Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte
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    Vivaldi: Juditha triumphans / Mancini, Biscuola, Zarpellon, Ensemble Lorenzo da Ponte

    $21.99 Regular price $31.99

    Hard to believe, but “Juditha triumphans” is the only oratorio by the extremely productive Antonio Vivaldi. This is all the more astonishing as the “Prete Rosso” was closely connected throughout his life with the famous...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 17, 2022

  • Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4 / Fortin, Ensemble Masques
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    Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4 / Fortin, Ensemble Masques

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    The orchestral suite, sometimes simply called ‘overture’ because of the imposing dimensions of its opening movement, enjoyed great popularity in the early eighteenth century, especially in central Germany. Bach had discovered the genre in his...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 10, 2022

  • J.S. Bach: 6 Suites for Solo Cello / Marina Tarasova
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    J.S. Bach: 6 Suites for Solo Cello / Marina Tarasova

    $18.99 Regular price $27.99

    The Six Suites for Solo Cello by J.S. Bach, composed around 1720, are generally regarded as the first and greatest masterpieces ever written for the instrument. Their scope is vast and ingenious. Although most of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 10, 2022

  • Cello on Fire / Peter Hudler
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    Cello on Fire / Peter Hudler

    $14.99 Regular price $21.99

    The program put together by the Viennese cellist Peter Hudler for his album “Cello on Fire” aims to create a space for passion, freedom, but also for poetry that the cello can express more than...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 10, 2022