Handel: Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3, HWV348-350
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Disc of the month
The piece's vitality and brilliance of invention shine forth in the strongest and most appealing orchestral colours…the quality of playing is extraordinary…the period instruments register superbly...
Handel: Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3, HWV348-350
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit
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Awards:
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Disc of the month
The piece's vitality and brilliance of invention shine forth in the strongest and most appealing orchestral colours…the quality of playing is extraordinary…the period instruments register superbly...
About
Music for a royal excursion. On 17 July 1717, King George I of England ‘went up by Water to Chelsea, and was entertain’d with an excellent Consort of Musick . . . composed specially by the famous Handel’. The fifty musicians cost the . . . princely sum of £150 – but their hunting horns, trumpets, flutes and the rest so delighted the company that the concert was repeated three times in the course of the evening.
No doubt the matchless virtuosos of the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin will repeat that feat in your living room!
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Awards and reviews
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BBC Music MagazineApril 2016Disc of the month
April 2016
The piece's vitality and brilliance of invention shine forth in the strongest and most appealing orchestral colours…the quality of playing is extraordinary…the period instruments register superbly in a rich and full sonic picture that achieves something close to an ideal textural balance
CD Review 20th February 2016
playing that doesn’t just celebrate the outdoorsy elements – the winds and the horns for George I’s trip down the Thames, but the beauty and delicacy of the writing as well … Tremendous fun, such light playing; brilliant … it takes real thought and preparation to make these famous pieces come up as fresh as they do here … properly invigorating, it’s a Thames boat trip I think I’d pay to embark on.
March 2016
From the delightfully sprightly Allegro of the Overture, the Berlin period band give a predictably enjoyable, accomplished performance: polished, rhythmically spirited and supple.
