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Handel - Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV349
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Orchestral
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Alison Balsom: Sound The Trumpet
RecommendedRoyal Music of Purcell and Handel
Alison Balsom (trumpet), Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Lucy Crowe (soprano)
The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock
This charming disc contains some of the most imaginative and polished trumpet playing you're ever likely to hear...Born-again authenticists may cavil at Balsom's vented trumpet, a modern development... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th October 2012
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Handel: Water Music & Music for the Royal Fireworks
RecommendedOrpheus Chamber Orchestra
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. 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... —
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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... —
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The braying of the brass, the keen but never acid oboes, the fleetness of the strings: all are a delight from first to last. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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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... —
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BBC Music Magazine, April 2016, Disc of the month
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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... —
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Building a Library, November 2015, First Choice
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Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Water Music
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner
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The Water Music has traditionally been divided into three suites, as it is here, but a recently rediscovered early manuscript copy confirms that Handel originally created one long sequence of... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2006, Editor's Choice
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Handel: Water Music & Music for the Royal Fireworks
Leslie Pearson (harpsichord)
English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard
