Georg Friedrich Händel: Wassermusik (CD)

Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)

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+Feuerwerksmusik

Artists:: Aradia Ensemble, Mallon
Label:: Naxos
Year of recording ca.:: 2005
Item number:: 9589271
UPC/EAN:: 0747313276424
Release date:: 2.1.2006

Brimming with exhilarating dance tunes and colourful sonorities, Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks are his two most popular orchestral works. They were composed, respectively, for royal water parties on the River Thames in August 1715 and July 1717, and to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749, with a fireworks display in Green Park, London. While the July 1717 entertainment was an unqualified success - the King "caused it to be plaid three times in going and returning" - the Royal Fireworks of 1749 was "ill-conducted" and a pyrotechnic disaster, with one of the pavilions catching fire! This is the first recording of Music for the Royal Fireworks to include a transverse flute, as indicated in the original manuscript. It is used to especially beautiful effect in La Paix ([20])."

Reviews

FonoForum 05/06: "Die Aufnahme bietet fabelhafte Momente, wenn die Streicher oder Holzbläser allein spielen; eine derart nuancenreiche Artikulation sucht man in den Vergleichseinspielungen von Pinnock oder Gardiner vergebens."

Disk 1 von 1 (CD)

1 Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348 : I. Overture: Largo - Allegro - II. Adagio e staccato
2 Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348 : III. Allegro - IV. Andante - Allegro
3 Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348 : V. Passepied
4 Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348 : VI. Air
5 Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348 : VII. Menuet
6 Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348 : VIII. Bourree
7 Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348 : IX. Hornpipe
8 Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348 : X. Allegro
9 Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: I. Overture
10 Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: II. Alla Hornpipe
11 Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: III. Sarabande
12 Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: IV. Rigaudon
13 Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349: V. Lentement
14 Water Music: Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350: I. Sarabande
15 Water Music: Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350: II. Rigaudon I and II
16 Water Music: Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350: III. Menuet I and II
17 Water Music: Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350: IV. Gigue I and II
18 Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 : I. Overture
19 Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 : II. Bourree
20 Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 : III. La paix
21 Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 : IV. La rejouissance
22 Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351 : V. Menuet I - Menuet II