Handel / Purcell / Gluck / J. S. Bach / F. Couperin / Corelli
Weingartner – Kindler – Barbirolli – Kleiber – Mitropoulos – Walter
Landowska – Novaes – Cohen – Rachmaninov

George Frideric Handel:
Concerto Grosso No. 5 in D major, Op. 6
Concerto Grosso No. 6 in G minor, Op. 6

London Symphony Orchestra / Felix Weingartner
(Columbia, recorded February 17 & 22, 1939 )

Alcina Suite

Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris / Felix Weingartner
(Columbia, recorded July 21, 1939 )

The Faithful Shepherd Suite (Il Pastor Fido); arr. Hans Kindler

National Symphony Orchestra / Hans Kindler
(RCA Victor, issued 1948 )

Concerto in B flat major, Op. 4, No. 6
(originally written for harp; later transcribed for organ; transcription for harpsichord presumably by the publisher John Walsh from 1738; cadenza by Landowska)


Air and variations in B flat major (from Suite No. 15, HWV 434)

Wanda Landowska, Harpsichord / Orchestra conducted by Eugène Bigot
(HMV, recorded April 21, 1937)

Henry Purcell (arr. Barbirolli):
Suite for Strings, Horns, Flutes and English Horn

New York Philharmonic / Sir John Barbirolli
(HMV, recorded 1938 )

François Couperin (arr. Darius Milhaud):
Overture and Allegro (from "La Sultane" Suite)

Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra / Dimitri Mitropoulos
(Columbia, recorded March 2, 1945)

Christoph Willibald Gluck:
Overture to Iphigenie in Aulis (conclusion by Richard Wagner)

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Erich Kleiber
(Telefunken, recorded 1931)

J. S. Bach (arr. Arnold Schoenberg):
Prelude and Fugue in E flat major, BWV 552

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Erich Kleiber
(Ultraphon, recorded 1930 )

Archangelo Corelli:
Concerto Grosso in G minor "Christmas Concerto"

London Symphony Orchestra / Bruno Walter
(RCA, 1940's; recorded September 13, 1938 )

Camille Saint-Saëns:
Caprice on the "Airs de Ballet" from Gluck's Alceste (ed. Carl Deis)

Guiomar Novaes, Piano
(Columbia, recorded January 3, 1947)

J. S. Bach (arr. Cohen):
Aria: "Wirf mein Herze, wirf dich noch in des Höchsten Liebesarme"
from Cantata No. 155, BWV 155

J. S. Bach:
Fantasia (Praeludium) in C minor, BWV 921 (ed. Petri)
Harriet Cohen, Piano
(Columbia, recorded March 22, 1935)

J. S. Bach (arr. Rachmaninov):
Violin Partita No. 3: Preludio – Gavotte – Gigue
from Violin Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006

Sergei Rachmaninov, Piano
(Victor, recorded February 26 & 27, 1942

Giuseppe Tartini (arr. Adolf Busch):

Air from Sonata No. 12 in G major, Op. 2

Adolf Busch, Violin / Busch Chamber Players
(Filler side from Columbia MM 609; recorded Liederkranz Hall, New York, 1945)

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New 78 rpm transfers. Includes covers, labels and some
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