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BAROQUE
FAVORITES


Tafelmusik

The Helicon Ensemble


RR-2101CD
2 CDs
[HDCD]

To kick off Reference Recordings' 25th Anniversary reissue program, an irresistible 2-CD set with their all-time best seller, Tafelmusik's debut recording of Baroque hits (including Pachelbel's CANNON), coupled with the Helicon Ensemble's Bach and Vivaldi.

Tafelmusik is Canada's premier original instrument Baroque orchestra.   Under the musical direction of Jean Lamon, it has achieved international renown.   Albert Fuller's Helicon Ensemble features many pre-eminent early music musicians, including violinists Jaap Schroder and Stanley Ritchie

Both of these programs have enjoyed great critical and sales success, and now they are available for the first time in HDCD transfers from the original analogue tapes --- at half price!


Previously released as
Popular Masterworks of the Baroque (RR-13)
and
Bach / Vivaldi (RR-23)

PROGRAM LISTING
Disk One: 47:19
TAFELMUSIK - Baroque Orchestra
Jean Lamon, Music Director
1.           HANDEL: Entrance of the Queen of Sheba from Solomon (3:14)
2. - 3.     PACHELBEL: Canon (4:03); Gigue (1:34)
4. - 8.     HANDEL: Selections from Water Music Suite No.1 (10:11)
9.            BACH: Air from Suite No.3 in D (4:18)
10. - 15. PURCELL: Incidental music to Ablelazar, or The Moor's Revenge (7:05)
16.         VIVALDI: Concerto Op.10. No.2, La Notte (8:34)
17. - 19. TELEMANN: Suite from Tafelmusik, Book III (7:57)

Disk Two: 56:47
THE HELICON ENSEMBLE
Albert Fuller, Music Director
VIVALDI
1. - 3.   Sinfonia in C. RV 116 (5:58)
4. - 8.   Trio Sonata in G minor (6:34)
9. - 11. Concerto in E-flat, RV 515 for two violins (11:55)
BACH
12.          Prelude in C, WTC Book 1 (2:30)
13. - 16. Trio Sonata in C, BWV 1037 (13:44)
17. - 19. Concerto in D minor, BWV 1043 for two violins (15:53)



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