G.F.Handel - Water Music, Fireworks...

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This is a fine Handel compilation that provides a nice overview of his orchestral music with brass instruments, as well as his only incidental score (music written to accompany the action of a play). Christopher Hogwood uses the arrangement that Handel made of the Fireworks Music for normal-sized forces, including strings, which were absent from the original. All the music is played with a fine sense of style, and a goodly bit of the "pomp and circumstance" that Handel above all others knew how to capture in music. --David Hurwitz

contents:


CD 1

Water Music Suite No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348
Water Music Suite No.3 for orchestra in G major, HWV 350
Water Music Suite No.2 for orchestra in D major, HWV 349
Alchemist, incidental music, HWV 43

CD 2

Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351
Concerto a due cori No.1 in B flat major, HWV 332
Concerto a due cori No.2 in F major, HWV 333
Concerto a due cori No.2 in F major, HWV 333
Aria No 1 for wind ensemble in F major, HWV 410
Aria No 2 for wind ensemble in F major, HWV 411 



The Academy of Ancient Music
dir. Christopher Hogwood