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.

  • Dvořák, Penderecki, Schubert, Vivaldi & Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Wand, Rilling
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    Dvořák, Penderecki, Schubert, Vivaldi & Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Wand, Rilling

    $21.99 Regular price $32.99

    This new release features poignant soul music for moments of contemplation. Stabat Mater is a 13th-century Catholic hymn to Mary's suffering as Jesus Christ's mother at his crucifixion and has been set to music by...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 02, 2022

  • Bach vs. Marchand: Beat Bach - A Cancelled Clavier Competition / von Heißen
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    Bach vs. Marchand: Beat Bach - A Cancelled Clavier Competition / von Heißen

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    There is a wealth of legends about great composers and famous musicians, among them examples of musical duels such as that between the young Georg Friedrich Händel and Domenico Scarlatti in Rome in 1709 or...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 02, 2022

  • Handel: Coronation Anthems / Niquet, Le concert spirituel
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    Handel: Coronation Anthems / Niquet, Le concert spirituel

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    ‘Well, what a surprise – a divine surprise! I have delighted in immersing myself in the world of Handel for more than forty years now. But I must admit that I experienced yet another lesson...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 26, 2022

  • Handel: Chandos Anthems / Jarry, Choeur & orchestre Marguerite Louise
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    Handel: Chandos Anthems / Jarry, Choeur & orchestre Marguerite Louise

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    No noblemen in England and very few in Europe lived a life as splendid, as magnificent, as grand as that of the Duke of Chandos. At Cannons, north of London, the residence of James Brydges...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 26, 2022

  • Corelli: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Continuo / Baù, Buccarella
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    Corelli: Sonatas for Viola da Gamba & Continuo / Baù, Buccarella

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    In the eighteenth century, the sonata model established by the published works of Arcangelo Corelli conquered all of musical Europe. Throughout the century, transcriptions of his music were published for every instrument, and the viola...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 26, 2022

  • Handel: Salve Regina / Roset, Alarcón, Millennium Orchestra
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    Handel: Salve Regina / Roset, Alarcón, Millennium Orchestra

    $14.99 Regular price $20.99

    Julie Roset, a young French soprano from Avignon, immediately attracted attention with her first recital for Ricercar (Nun danket alle Gott with Clematis) and went on to record a recital of works by Sigismondo d'India...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 26, 2022

  • Vivaldi's Women / Chandler, La Serenissima
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    Vivaldi's Women / Chandler, La Serenissima

    $13.99 Regular price $19.99

    La Serenissima explore the sacred works of Vivaldi, many of which were composed for the Ospedale della Pietài – a Venetian institution that cared for unwanted children, which included a talented group of performers (the...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 26, 2022

  • Telemann: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol. 8 / The Wallfisch Band
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    Telemann: Complete Violin Concertos, Vol. 8 / The Wallfisch Band

    $12.99 Regular price $18.99

    The five works on our Vol. 8 offer a fascinating cross-section of Telemann's violin concertos from the early creations of the Eisenach period (1708-1712) to the 1730s, when the composer published his Musique de table...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 26, 2022

  • Bach, Chopin, Schubert, Lysenko at al: Death - Mourning - Consolation / Margolina, Hait
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    Bach, Chopin, Schubert, Lysenko at al: Death - Mourning - Consolation / Margolina, Hait

    $14.99 Regular price $21.99

    The topics of death, mourning and consolation move people more than ever. With the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this theme has come upon us in a cruel and numbing way. The music and lyrics of...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 19, 2022

  • A. Scarlatti: Griselda / Pe, Remigio, Acioti, Petrou, Coro Ghislieri, La Lira di Orfeo
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    A. Scarlatti: Griselda / Pe, Remigio, Acioti, Petrou, Coro Ghislieri, La Lira di Orfeo

    From $19.99 Regular price $29.99

    Alessandro Scarlatti is one of the key figures of Italian Baroque opera and the influential Neapolitan school in particular. Griselda is the last of Scarlatti’s operas to have survived intact to the present day. Its...


    Format: CD, DVD, Blu-Ray

    Release Date: August 19, 2022

  • Bach: Suites for Cello Solo / Stromberg
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    Bach: Suites for Cello Solo / Stromberg

    $16.99 Regular price $25.99

    In this recording, David Stromberg deals with the well-known Bach cello solo suites. Unlike the usual recordings, he uses a historical style of playing and interpretation using the baroque cello, piccolo cello and a baroque...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: August 12, 2022

  • Telemann: The Recorder Sonatas / Laurin, Paradiso, Olofsson
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    Telemann: The Recorder Sonatas / Laurin, Paradiso, Olofsson

    $14.99 Regular price $21.99

    Over the past decades, Dan Laurin has established himself as one of the most interesting recorder players of our time. His more than 30 critically acclaimed releases on BIS range from a seminal 9-disc set...


    Format: SACD

    Release Date: August 05, 2022

  • Bach: Transcriptions / Stefano Molardi
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    Bach: Transcriptions / Stefano Molardi

    $11.99 Regular price $16.99

    Transcription has always been a widespread musical practice, following the desire to arrange pieces originally written for an instrumental and/or vocal ensemble for an instrument like the organ or harpsichord or, later, the piano. The...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 22, 2022

  • The Habsburg Garden of Eden
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    The Habsburg Garden of Eden

    $9.99 Regular price $13.99

    The Habsburg Empire was a unique melting pot of cultural currents at the end of the 17th and beginning of the 18th centuries. Similar to the French court, the emperors in Vienna sought to distinguish...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 22, 2022

  • Bach: Guitar Transcriptions / Ivannikov
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    Bach: Guitar Transcriptions / Ivannikov

    $11.99 Regular price $16.99

    Bach’s music is often described as indestructible, in the sense that no matter how it is performed, or in whichever arrangement, its essential spirit survives. Therefore transcriptions of the Master’s works are common, today as...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: July 22, 2022