Handel: Water Music & Rodrigo Overture

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The opening Suite is splendid, from fine blasts of robust natural horns (if played at Whitehall, audible, I'd imagine, in Chelsea)...though the sound is weighty enough to suit the open air, his... — BBC Music Magazine, February 2011, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Oct 2010
Catalogue No: V5234
Label: Naive
Length: 67 minutes

Handel: Water Music, suite in F Major, HWV 348

Work length5:03

$1.60

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Ouverture

Track length3:04

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Adagio e staccato

Track length1:59

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Handel: Water Music, suite in F Major, HWV 348

Work length2:13

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Handel: Water Music, suite in F Major, HWV 348

Work length15:23

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Andante

Track length2:04

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Variantes

Track length3:09

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Allegro

Track length3:27

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Air

Track length2:33

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Menuet

Track length2:00

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Bourée

Track length1:00

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Hornpipe

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Handel: Water Music, suite in F Major, HWV 348

Work length4:19

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Handel: Water Music, suite in F Major, HWV 348: Variante alla Hornpipe

Work length3:12

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Handel: Water Music, suite in G Major, HWV 350

Work length3:23

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Handel: Water Music, suite in G Major, HWV 350

Work length3:19

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Rigaudon

Track length2:28

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Menuet

Track length0:51

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Handel: Water Music, suite in G Major, HWV 350

Work length1:55

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Handel: Water Music, suite in G Major, HWV 350

Work length1:39

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Excerpt, Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV349

Work length2:34

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV349

Work length8:27

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Alla Hornpipe

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Menuet pour trompette

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Lentement

Track length2:34

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Bourrée

Track length1:38

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Handel: Rodrigo

Work length15:48

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Marc Minkowski
Les Musiciens du Louvre

Ouverture

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Gigue

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Sarabande

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Matelot

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Menuet

Track length0:58

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Gavotte

Track length1:18

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Bourée

Track length0:59

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Passacaglia

Track length4:03

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Following the huge success of their Haydn Symphonies set, Marc Minkowski and his Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble's fifth recording on Naïve is Handel's popular Water Music, commissioned by King George I for a big “river party” on the Thames that took place in July 1717. Minkowski and his band have performed this many times in concerts all over Europe and now they record it for the first time.

Handel’s Water Music was influenced by French, German and Italian music, which explains its lively, colourful, varied, dynamic and dancing character – and its enduring popularity with audiences ever since. This fresh interpretation gathers together the three suites – grouped according to instrumentation and key – that collectively comprise all the Water Music.

To complement the Water Music, Marc Minkowski has chosen to record the ‘Ouverture’ to Rodrigo (an opera recorded in full on Naïve’s sister label, Ambroisie – AM132), composed by Handel for his Italian audience some years before. Everything, in this Florentine suite, seems to foreshadow the London festival!

“This is the finest period instruments ensemble in the world." Independent on Sunday

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February 2011

The opening Suite is splendid, from fine blasts of robust natural horns (if played at Whitehall, audible, I'd imagine, in Chelsea)...though the sound is weighty enough to suit the open air, his spirited players achieve a lightness of touch, even with 25 strings, and doubled horns and oboes.

March 2011

Minkowski's interpretation has plenty of tautness and verve...the vigour and force of quick movements can be dashing (in both senses of the term)...The most enduring music-making is the slower or gentler movements of the "Suite in G", with Minkowski embracing the lyrical sustained lines wholeheartedly and with emotional warmth.

December 2010

The string playing is richly textured and there is some lovely solo playing, presumably by the leader Thibault Noally...the [brass] tone is raw and penetrating, yet with delicacy when needed and some quite astonishing feats of ornamentation...The performance has excitement, tenderness, wit and drama - all the qualities, in fact, for which we love Handel's music.

2nd January 2011

This is a feast...the performances are outstanding. There is no finer period-instrument orchestra than Minkowski’s...wonderfully fleet-footed strings, ravishing flute and recorder, horns to delight the heart of Squire Weston himself, and all as responsive to Handel’s most delicate fancies as to his Rabelaisian humour.

4th February 2011

The Water Music Suites...are given with all the freshness, exuberance and interpretative discretion that are hallmarks of Les Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski. Natural horns rasp jubilantly, the strings, while using “historically aware” technique, sound full and lithe, and Minkowski opts for judicious pacing that buoys up the music

Handel: Water Music & Rodrigo Overture

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