Handel - Water Music & Music For The Royal Fireworks

CPO: 7773122

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Handel - Water Music  & Music For The Royal Fireworks

Awards:

Building a Library

First Choice - April 2009

Label:

CPO

Catalogue No:

7773122

Discs:

1

Release date:

28th July 2008

Barcode:

0761203731220

Length:

65 minutes

Medium:

SACD (download also available)

Format:

Hybrid Multi-channel
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Handel - Water Music & Music For The Royal Fireworks


Handel:

Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3, HWV348-350

Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351


L'Arte dell'Arco (on period instruments), Federico Guglielmo (Direction)

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Handel’s Water Music and equally popular Firework Music are extremely well known standard repertoire for all Baroque enthusiasts. CPO are delighted to present this new interpretation, performed on period instruments by L’Arte dell’Arco and enhanced SACD sound quality to bring to life these two immensely popular works.

George Frideric Handel: Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348

playI. Overture: Largo - Allegro

playII. Adagio e staccato

playIII. Allegro

playIV. Andante

playV.

playVI. Air

playVII. Minuet

playVIII.

playIX. Hornpipe

playX.

George Frideric Handel: Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349

playI. Allegro

playII. Alla Hornpipe

playIII. Menuet

playIV. Rigaudon I

playIV. Rigaudon II

playV. Lentement

George Frideric Handel: Water Music: Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350

playI. Bouree

playII. Menuet

playIII. Menuett

playIV. Country Dance I

playIV. Country Dance II

playV. Trumpet Minuet

George Frideric Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351

playI. Ouverture

playII. Bourree

playIII. La Paix

playIV. La Rejouissance

playV. Menuet I

playV. Menuet II

Gramophone Magazine

November 2008

“The Italian group's strings play with polish and alertness. Federico Guglielmo leads proceedings expertly from the violin… The famous Hornpipe is splendidly done, with a radiant balance between the pairs of trumpets and horns… and lovely solo fiddle-playing during the middle section. The Bourrée is thrillingly quick. The Country Dance sparkles with conviviality...”

Gramophone Classical Music Guide

2010

“The tradition of dividing the Water Music into three separate suites dates back to the 1950s. The suspicion that Handel envisaged it as one long sequence of movements has informed a couple of fine recordings but this disc by L'Arte dell'Arco is the first such recording to be made since the earliest surviving manuscript copy of the music (dating from 1718) was rediscovered in 2004.
The strings play with polish and alertness.
Federico Guglielmo leads proceedings expertly from the violin; his few solo flourishes are direct yet courtly. The famous Hornpipe is splendidly done, with a radiant balance between the pairs of trumpets and horns (who relish some tasteful ornaments in the da capo), and lovely solo fiddleplaying during the middle section.
Generally these performances are pleasantly contoured, though the continuo team occasionally become intrusive in faster music. However, it is good to hear musicians confident enough to play the Lentement more slowly than has become common. The Bourrée is thrillingly quick. The Country Dance sparkles with conviviality, although the recorder is a little uneven.
The Ouverture from the Music for the RoyalFireworks is given a vibrant and engaging performance.
Guglielmo and his forces achieve the rare feat of ensuring that 'La Réjouissance' is coherently shaped. CPO's translator of the booklet has done a poor job of what seems to have been an interesting note by Guglielmo ('cembalo' is consistently mistranslated as 'cymbals'!) but the disc is warmly recommended.”

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