Handel: Water Music

Geaorg Friederich Haendel
Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks
Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall, dir.
Astrée (Auvidis) E 8512 [CD]
Astrée (Auvidis) E8 8512 [Minidisc]
Astrée (Naïve) "Musica Britannica" ES 9920 [CD]
(???) "Concert Baroque" CBF 004 [CD + dictionary]
Alia Vox AVSA 9860 [SACD-H]

Contents:

    Georg Friedrich Händel

    Water Music (1717)
    Suite I (ré majeur et sol majeur/mineur)
  1. Prelude
  2. Menuet I
  3. Menuet II
  4. Rigaudon I
  5. Rigaudon II
  6. Menuet I
  7. Menuet II
  8. Gigue I
  9. Gigue II
  10. Bourrée
  11. Lentement
  12. Alla Hornpipe

    13. Suite II (fa majeur)
  13. Ouverture
  14. Adagio E Staccato
  15. Allegro
  16. Andante Allegro
  17. Menuet
  18. Air
  19. Bourrée
  20. Hornpipe
  21. Aria
  22. Menuet

    23. Music for the royal fireworks (1749)
  23. Ouverture: Adagio
  24. Allegro, Lentement, Allegro
  25. Bourrée
  26. La Paix: Largo Alla Siciliana
  27. La Rejouissance: Allegro
  28. Menuet II, Menuet I, Menuet II

Playing time: 73' 53"

Performers:
Le Concert des Nations:
Mandredo Kraemer (1rst violin ), Corrado Bolsi (2nd violin), Guya Martinini (violin I), Gustavo Zarba (violin I), Katharina Wolf (violin I), Eva Posvanesz (violin I), Pablo Valetti (violin II), Johanna Gamerith (violin II), Mauro Lopes (violin II), Angelo Bartoletti (alto), Judith Foldess (alto), Balasz Mate ('cello), Michel Murgier ('cello), Laura Folch ('cello), Lorenz Duftschmid (violone), Roberto Sensi (contrabass), Paolo Faldi (recorder, oboe), Charles Zebley (transverse flute), Alfredo Bernardini (oboe), Paolo Grazzi (oboe), Guy Ferber (trumpet), Roland Calmar (trumpet), Jean-Luc Machicot (trumpet), Thomas Muller (natural horn), Raul Diaz (natural horn), Javier Bonet (natural horn), Josep Borras (bassoon), Lorenzo Alpert (bassoon), Walter Stiffner (contrabass), Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord), Paula Chateauneuf (teorbo), Pedro Estevan (kettledrum), Angel Pereira (clear drum)
Jordi Savall, dir.

Recording site and date:
Colegiata del castello de Cardona, Catalunya, Spain [03/1993]
rel.: 09/06/1993 (E), 1999 (CBF), 02/08/2000 (ES), 2008 (Alia Vox)

Excerpts:
[27] Fontalis (Auvidis) ES 9903 [CD] Du baroque au pré-romantisme: portrait / Guillaume Dumanoir, Marin Marais, Henry Purcell... [et al.]

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 398-138 (11/1993)

Comments:
Information from CD.

Pierre-F. Roberge

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