Handel And His English Contemporaries

Release Date: 19th May 2014
Catalogue No: REGCD382
Label: Regent

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Handel: Ottone - Overture

Robert Woolley (organ)

Handel: Jesu meine Freude, HWV480

Robert Woolley (organ)

Handel: Air in B-flat major, HWV469

Robert Woolley (organ)

Handel: Fugue in G minor, HWV605

Robert Woolley (organ)

Handel: Fugue in B-flat major, HWV607

Robert Woolley (organ)

Handel: [Verse] in F (Fitzwilliam, MS 260)

Robert Woolley (organ)

Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV348: Air

Robert Woolley (organ)

Handel: Fantaisie in C major, HWV490

Robert Woolley (organ)

Handel: Fugue in A minor, HWV609

Robert Woolley (organ)

Handel: A Voluntary for a Flight of Angels in C major, HWV600

Robert Woolley (organ)

Walond: Voluntary X in A minor

Robert Woolley (organ)

James, John: Voluntary VI in E minor

Robert Woolley (organ)

Goodwin, W: Voluntary VII in G major

Robert Woolley (organ)

Boyce: Voluntary in D

Robert Woolley (organ)

Walond: Voluntary in G

Robert Woolley (organ)

Goodwin, S: Voluntary VII in D major

Robert Woolley (organ)

Roseingrave: Voluntary in G minor

Robert Woolley (organ)

Stanley, J: A Voluntary for the Trumpet Stop

Robert Woolley (organ)

Roseingrave: Voluntary in G major

Robert Woolley (organ)

Greene, M: Voluntary VII in E flat

Robert Woolley (organ)

Greene, M: Voluntary in C minor

Robert Woolley (organ)

Nares: Voluntary in A minor

Robert Woolley (organ)

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A selection of organ music by Handel and his English contemporaries, played by internationally-respected early keyboard artist, Robert Woolley, in his first recording on the Regent label.

The disc includes both orginal organ music and contemporary eighteen-century transcriptions of works by Handel, together with orginal works for organ by the most renowed British composers of Handel’s time: William Boyce, Starling Goodwin, Maurice Greene, John James, James Nares, Thomas Roseingrave, John Stanley, and William Walond.

Played on the 1766 Thomas Parker organ in the church of St Mary and St Nicholas, Leatherhead. This instrument was reconstructed from orginal casework and pipework by the organ builders, Goetze & Gwynn, in 2007, and is a very rare example of organs from this period in England. This is the first recording of this delightful eighteenth-century instrument.

Robert Woolley is one of Europe's leading performers and teachers of the harpsichord, and other early keyboard instruments. He studied at the Royal College of Music ,where he is now Professor of Harpsichord and Clavichord, and was Director of the Early Music Department and Adviser for Early Music from 1985-2006.

He is well known as a soloist, chamber musician, and orchestral player on the harpsichord, organ and fortepiano; his solo recordings include discs of music by Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Frescobaldi, Weckmann, Bohm, Handel, J S Bach, Scarlatti, Seixas and J C Bach for EMI, Virgin, Archiv, Hyperion and Chandos.

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