Viewed together, the recordings in this 50-CD set, many of them pioneering ventures, offer the listener a microcosm of early, Baroque and Classical performing styles in their changing manners and inflexions over a period of fifty-five years.

As a dedicated Early Music label, Das Alte Werk embraced the period instrument revival almost from its inception, signing up five musicians who were to play an influential role in the development of historically informed performance over the next twenty-five years. They were the recorder and flute player Frans Brüggen, organist, harpsichordist and scholar Gustav Leonhardt, cellist, viola da gamba player and conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt, cellist Anner Bylsma and violinist Jaap Schröder. The name Das Alte Werk became synonymous with all that was at the forefront of scholarly research and period-instrument practice.

Among the most important of the younger generation of musicians signed by the label in the 1990s, were Il Giardino Armonico, Concerto Köln, Tragicomedia, Chanticleer and the harpsichordist/fortepiano player Andreas Staier. All can be heard within this superb collection.

Contents:
CD 1 Herbert Tachezi
CPE Bach: Organ Sonatas

CD 2 Herbert Tachezi
Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge

CD 3 Gustav Leonhardt
Bach: Goldberg Variations

CD 4 Leonhardt-Consort/Gustav Leonhardt
Bach: Harpsichord Concertos BWV 1056–1060

CD 5 & 6 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Bach: Mass in B minor

CD 7 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 1–3

CD 8 Il Giardino Armonico
Bach: Brandenburg Concertos 4–6

CD 9 Münchner Bach-Chor/Karl Richter
Bach: Cantatas BWV 67, 108 & 127

CD 10 Leonhardt-Consort/Gustav Leonhardt - Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Double Concertos by J S Bach and his Sons

CD 11 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Bach: Orchestral Suites 1 & 2

CD 12 Angela Maria Blasi/Yvonne Kenny/Kurt Equiluz/Robert Holl/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Bach: “Jagdkantate” & “Bauernkantate”

CD 13 Arnold Schoenberg Chor/Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Bach: Matthäus-Passion (Highlights)

CD 14 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Biber: Sonatae · Ballettae · Battalia · Sonata “die Pauern Kirchfahrt”

CD 15 Andreas Staier
Clementi: Keyboard Sonatas

CD 16 Il Giardino Armonico
Corelli · Manfredini · Torelli · Vivaldi: Christmas Concertos

CD 17 Concerto Köln
Dall’Abaco: Concerti

CD 18 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Handel: Concerti grossi, op.3

CD 19 Palmer/Rolfe Johnson/Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Handel: Ode for St Cecilia’s Day, HWV 76

CD 20 Herbert Tachezi/Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Handel: Organ Concertos, op.7

CD 21 Herbert Tachezi/Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Handel: Water Music · Organ Concertos HWV 295 & HWV 304

CD 22 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Haydn: Harmoniemesse · Te Deum · Cantata “Qual dubbio ormai”

CD 23 Chanticleer
Jerusalem: Matins for the Virgin of Guadaloupe (1764)

CD 24 Concerto Köln
Mendelssohn: String Symphonies 8–10

CD 25 Tragicomedia
Monteverdi: Madrigali concertati

CD 26 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Monteverdi: L’Orfeo (Highlights)

CD 27a & b Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine (1610)

CD 28 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Mozart: “Credo” Mass, K257 · Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento, K243

CD 29 St James’s Singers and Baroque Players/Ivor Bolton
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

CD 30 Andreas Staier/Concerto Köln
Salieri · Steffan: Fortepiano Concertos

CD 31 Gustav Leonhardt/Jürgen Jürgens
Schütz: Die Sieben Worte unsers lieben Erlösers · Lukas-Passion

CD 32 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Telemann: Musique de table (Tafelmusik) (Production III)

CD 33 Frans Brüggen/Franz Vester/Paul Doctor
Telemann: Overtures & Concertos

CD 34 Concerto Köln
Vanhal: Symphonies

CD 35 Pro Cantione Antiqua
Victoria: Sacred Music

CD 36 Giovanni Antonini/Il Giardino Armonico
Vivaldi: Concerti op.10

CD 37 Il Giardino Armonico
Vivaldi: 4 Seasons · Concertos RV 454 & 332

CD 38 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Zelenka: Hipocondrie à 7 · Ouverture à 7 · Trio Sonata for 2 oboes and bassoon

CD 39 Pro Cantione Antiqua
Ars Britannica — Old Hall Manuscript · Madrigals

CD 40 Frans Brüggen/Anner Bylsma/Gustav Leonhardt
Italian Recorder Sonatas

CD 41 Anner Bylsma
Baroque Music for Cello

CD 42 Leonhardt-Consort/Gustav Leonhardt
English Consort & Keyboard Music

CD 43 Leonhardt-Consort/Gustav Leonhardt
English Music of the 17th Century

CD 44 Pro Cantione Antiqua
English Part Songs & Lute Songs

CD 45 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Komödiantische Musik des Barock

CD 46 Concentus musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Music at the Court of Mannheim

CD 47 Bob van Asperen
J Bull: Music for Harpsichord

CD 48 Il Giardino Armonico
Musica da camera a Napoli

CD 49 Max van Egmond/Leonhardt-Consort/Gustav Leonhardt
Songs of the Baroque Era

CD 50 Tragicomedia
Vanitas vanitatum — Rome 1650