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Sophie Yates brings formidable technique and strong dramatic feeling to these suites. The works of the first collection (1720, HWV426-33) are the more demanding, each of them opening with a prelude... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Release Date: 1st Aug 2002
Catalogue No: CHAN0688
Label: Chandos
Series: Chaconne
Length: 70 minutes

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Handel: Suite No. 6 in F-Sharp Minor, HWV 431

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Sophie Yates

I. Prelude

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II. Largo

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III. Allegro

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IV. Gigue. Presto

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Handel: Keyboard Suite, HWV 432 in G minor

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II. Andante

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III. Allegro

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IV. Sarabande

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V. Gigue

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VI. Passacaille

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Handel: Suite No. 8 in F Minor, HWV 433

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Sophie Yates

I. Adagio

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II. Allegro

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III. Allemande

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IV. Courante

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V. Gigue

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Handel: Suite No. 7 in B-Flat Major, HWV 440

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Sophie Yates

I. Allmand

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II. Corrant

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III. Saraband

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IV. Jigg

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Handel: Suite No. 8 in G Major, HWV 441

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I. Allemande

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II. Allegro

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III. Corante

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IV. Aria. Presto

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V. Menuetto

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VI. Gavotta and Double

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VII. Gigue

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Handel: Suite No. 9 in G Major: I. Prelude

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Sophie Yates brings formidable technique and strong dramatic feeling to these suites. The works of the first collection (1720, HWV426-33) are the more demanding, each of them opening with a prelude (or overture) – complex, pensive, often sombre – with a large-scale, fully worked fugue.
Yates plays these in an appropriately rhetorical manner, rhythmically taut yet with enough flexibility and attentiveness to the music's caesuras to shape and characterise it, at the same time giving it some sense of the improvisatory. Then she takes the fugues at a lively pace, just a touch too fast for the music to sound comfortable: this is brilliant, edge-of-your seat playing.
Her playing, with its thoughtful details of timing, clearly conveys the structure of the music. She finds the same grandeur of manner in the Passacaille that ends the G minor Suite. For the rest, it's mainly dance music: some lively courantes and exuberant gigues, sober and deliberate allemandes, spacious and noble sarabandes – the crisp and precise fingerwork in that of the B flat Suite in the Second Set (1733), with its intensely detailed line, is a delight.
These are the most appealing versions of Handel's suites: fresh, alive, with a real command of style and technique but also just a hint of risk about the playing. Handel's harpsichord music has sometimes been called dull, but there isn't a moment here when you'd believe that.

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