Handel - Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV348
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Handel: Water Music and Music For the Royal Fireworks
B'Rock (early music ensemble), Dmitry Sinkovsky
The braying of the brass, the keen but never acid oboes, the fleetness of the strings: all are a delight from first to last. — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Handel - Water Music & Music For The Royal Fireworks
RecommendedL'Arte dell'Arco (on period instruments), Federico Guglielmo (Direction)
The tradition of dividing the Water Music into three separate suites dates back to the 1950s. The suspicion that Handel envisaged it as one long sequence of movements has informed a couple of... — More…
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Building a Library, April 2009, First Choice
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An outstanding disc which I foolishly overlooked back in 1993, not realising Savall et al. were such fine Handelians; it sounds spectacular now, remastered from stereo to effective but not overblown... — More…
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It's unlikely that George I ever witnessed performances that live up to this one. They are sparkling; tempos are well judged and there's a truly majestic sweep to the opening F major French... — More…
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Building a Library, November 2015, First Choice
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Special offer. Handel: Water Music Suites Nos. 1-3, HWV348-350
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Georg Kallweit
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... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Disc of the month
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Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks & Water Music Suites
Colin Tilney (harpsichord)
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
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Handel - Water Music & Fireworks
Recorded in Metz (Arsenal), France, in September 2002,
Le Concert Spirituel, Hervé Niquet
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This album is a class act. The programming is clever. Highlights from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker suite and the baroque era form bookends and interludes between chic arrangements of traditional... — More…
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