Froberger was the most famous keyboard virtuoso of the mid-seventeenth century. This recording of his elegant, colorful and intricately expressive dance music in the French lute-style, arranged here in chronological order, is the first to employ all available sources in a new edition by Glen Wilson. An online essay accessible at www.naxos.com/notes/573493.htm explroes in depth his views of the many problems of performance practice and explains the famous programmatic pieces, which shed light on events in Froberger's life, including a near-drowning of a travellign companion in the Rhine.