Composers

• Anglebert, Jean-Henri d' (1635-91)
• Clérambault, Louis-Nicolas (1676-1749)
• Couperin, Louis (c.1626-61)
• Fischer, Johann Kaspar Ferdinand (1665-1746)
• Froberger, Johann Jakob (1616-67)
• Muffat, Georg (1653-1704)

Works

• Anglebert: Pièces de clavecin (1689)
• Clérambault: Suite No. 2 in C minor
• Couperin, L: Suite in F major
• Fischer, J K F: Da Jesus an dem Creutze stund
• Fischer, J K F: De Ariadne Musica, 1702: Ricercar pro Tempore, Quadragesimae super Initium
• Fischer, J K F: Musicalischer Parnassus, de la Suite 'Uranie' D minor
• Froberger: Lamento sopra la dolorosa perdita della Real Maestà di Ferdinando IV Rè de Romani
• Froberger: Suite [XXX] Plainte faite à Londres pour passer la Melancholie laquelle se joue lentement avec discrétion - From Book IV (1656)
• Muffat, Georg: Passacaglia in G minor

Groups & Artists

• Staier, Andreas

"On melancholy in Baroque music": not just deeply sorrowful expressive registers, but also discourses in sound on vanity, art . . . and music itself. Whether the composer luxuriates in melancholic disorder or attempts to remedy it, there is but a fine line here between the vanity of the world and the artist's glory. In his readings of Froberger, Fischer and Clérambault, Andreas Staier distils the fruits of this sophisticated blend on an instrument saved from oblivion at the start of the 21st century.

Cast :
Andreas Staier, harpsichord