Handel: Suites De Pièces Pour Le Clavecin

Release Date: 23rd Jun 2017
Catalogue No: MF8025
Label: Musica Ficta
Length: 72 minutes

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Handel: Harpsichord Suite Set II No. 1 in B-Flat Major, HWV 434

Work length8:58

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I. Prelude

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II. Sonata

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III. Aria con variazioni

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Handel: Harpsichord Suite Set II No. 4 in D Minor, HWV 437

Work length10:43

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I. Prelude

Track length1:27

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II. Allemande

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III. Courante

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IV. Sarabande con variazioni

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V. Gigue

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Babell: Suite No. 1 in F Major: Lascia ch’io pianga in Handel's Rinaldo

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Handel: Dolce bene in Radamisto (Transcribed for Harpsichord)

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Babell: Suite No. 4 in G Major: Vo far guerra in Handel's Rinaldo

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Handel: Harpsichord Suite Set I No. 5 in E Major, HWV 430

Work length13:53

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I. Prelude

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II. Allemande

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III. Courante

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IV. Air, Doubles 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5

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Handel: Keyboard Suite, HWV 427 in F major

Work length8:26

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I. Adagio

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II. Allegro

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III. Adagio

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IV. Allegro

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Handel: Harpsichord Suite Set II No. 2 in G Major, HWV 435: Chaconne

Work length11:29

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A fount of inexhaustible creativity, Handel more than any of his contemporaries embodies the spirit of his century. He was a prolific composer who left an indelible mark on his contemporaries’ memory, and over the centuries became synonymous with the musical genres on which he brought his genius to bear.

By the time he published his eight “Great Suites”, he had already travelled a good deal and learned from every country in which he had stayed; as a result he was capable of writing a suite in which an adagio of Italian inspiration suggests the colours of dawn over the Thames, or in which a courante of French character is constructed with the solidity of a German cathedral. Handel sang and made the harpsichord sing: whether in the moving airs and ornamented adagios in the style of Corelli, in the French-style dances, in the severe German fugues, or in the Purcellian “lessons” in which he conjures an ineffably English vividness.

The logical extension of this singular talent was that Handel’s contemporaries began to produce solo harpsichord transcriptions from his operas. So his close and faithful friend and pupil William Babell wrote transcriptions of the master’s most celebrated arias, with success. Himself a virtuoso, Babell succeeded in transforming Handel’s extended vocal lines into tremblings of the fingers without losing the music’s fundamentally lyrical character, whether in the slowest and most expressive arias or in the wildest and most virtuosic ones.

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