Handel in Hamburg
Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Frank De Bruine oboe
The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman
A highly entertaining collection. Delightful rarities from the young Handel
Handel in Hamburg
Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin), Frank De Bruine oboe
The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman
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A highly entertaining collection. Delightful rarities from the young Handel
About
Handel arrived in Hamburg in 1703, aged eighteen. He spent four years in the city and wrote several works for the town’s opera house. Hamburg opera was a rather eclectic beast at the time, drawing on Italian and French language and instrumental style alongside the native German. Handel fell happily into this genre; this recording brings together a selection of the delightful orchestral music (which tends to be in the French style) that Handel wrote there, some of it recorded for the first time.
Contents and tracklist
Suite. Movement 1. Ouverture
Track length3:58
Suite. Movement 2. Courante
Track length1:16
Suite. Movement 3. Bourrée
Track length0:35
Suite. Movement 4. Menuet
Track length0:43
Suite. Movement 5. Rigaudon
Track length0:56
Suite. Movement 6. Rondeau
Track length1:18
Suite. Movement 7. Sarabande
Track length2:13
Suite. Movement 8. Gigue
Track length0:59
Suite. Movement 9. Chaconne
Track length1:32
Handel:
Suite in G minor possibly from the opera Nero, HWV453
Work length9:25
I. Ouverture
Track length2:27
II. Entrée
Track length1:43
III. Menuet 1 – Menuet 2 – Menuet 1
Track length2:47
IV. Chaconne
Track length2:28
Handel:
Oboe Concerto in G minor, HWV287
Work length7:59
I. Grave
Track length2:33
II. Allegro
Track length1:43
III. Sarabande: Largo
Track length1:49
IV. Allegro
Track length1:54
Work length15:55
I. Ouverture
Track length3:33
II. Sarabande
Track length1:58
III. Gavotte
Track length0:40
IV. Menuet
Track length1:19
V. Allemande
Track length0:42
VI. Bourrée – Allemande
Track length1:09
VII. Menuet
Track length1:24
VIII. Allemande
Track length1:03
IX. Coro
Track length1:17
X. Allemande
Track length0:53
XI. Rigaudon – Allemande
Track length1:57
Overture. Movement 1. Ouverture
Track length3:36
Overture. Movement 2. Gigue
Track length0:57
Overture. Movement 3. Sarabande
Track length2:06
Overture. Movement 4. Matelot
Track length1:17
Overture. Movement 5. Menuet
Track length1:15
Overture. Movement 6. Bourrée
Track length1:06
Overture. Movement 7. [Air]
Track length1:03
Overture. Movement 8. Menuet
Track length1:08
Overture. Movement 9. Passacaille
Track length3:59
Awards and reviews
Classic CD
A highly entertaining collection. Delightful rarities from the young Handel
The disc is warmly commended
A marvellous disc
