Reddit reviews Altre Follie 1500-1750

If you like Folia, he has two CDs of it. (Sorry for amazon links, I don't know how else to refer to them. Find them elsewhere if you are so inclined)

For standard repertoire works, I like his Brandenburgs and Orchestral Suites as well as his Royal Fireworks/Water Music.

He likes to push the envelope which can sometimes be fun. His Eroica is interesting, but I wouldn't want that to be my only recording. Same with his Mozart Serenades CD. It sounds like an exciting concert, but the unexpected parts don't work as well on repeat listens.

He's mostly known for early music and early baroque though. I enjoy these recordings but this is not my era of expertise, so I don't know how it compares to other performances.

The initial question was vague, but this makes it a lot easier! There are several different (but related) forms/techniques within baroque music which use a bass line similar to this.

Firstly, ostinato (plural: ostinati). This just means a short, repeating phrase. It was very commonly used in bass parts in the baroque. To give you a slightly strange but hopefully still appealing example, here's a piece by the modern minimalist(ish) composer Michael Nyman. Minimalism uses a lot of repetition anyway, but the entire soundtrack from which this piece comes is based on little snippets of works by the baroque composer Henry Purcell. I've just chosen this piece because the ostinati are very clear (clearer than most baroque pieces, in fact), but also because it shows that the thing you found appealing about the Marais piece doesn't just occur in pieces of "similar period and musical style". Sibelius is another composer who uses this technique, but again in a completely different way.

Secondly, passacaglias and chaconnes. These forms have been interpreted differently by a variety of composers across different eras, so it's hard to give many specific examples, but hopefully those two pages should give you some pointers.

Thirdly, La Folia, which is basically a famous chord progression that various composers have used as the basis for certain works. Vivaldi's version and Corelli's version are some of the best-known examples. I also like this version.

I'm not really a Baroque expert so it's hard to list many more specific pieces, but I would suggest this extract from Monteverdi's Vespers, and I would thoroughly recommend this album, this album and this album, all of which are by Jordi Savall. They're all available on spotify as well if that's easier.