Nicholas Boulton - Great Composers in Words & Music: George Frideric Handel (2024)
Nicholas Boulton - Great Composers in Words & Music: George Frideric Handel (2024)
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 239 MB | Tracks: 36 | 77:49
Style: Classical | Label: Naxos
WEB FLAC (tracks+booklet) - 239 MB | Tracks: 36 | 77:49
Style: Classical | Label: Naxos
Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks and Water Music, two of his greatest orchestral achievements, have become synonymous with mid-18th-century England and with the pomp, ceremony and tradition of British royalty. But is this music necessarily synonymous with Handel? Where did his eclecticism and experimentalism come from? How and why did he conquer the emerging genre of the English oratorio and what were the circumstances that allowed him to become one of opera’s greatest composers? This revealing audio biography is accompanied by musical examples drawn from his orchestral and instrumental music, his cantatas, oratorios, operas and those two famous royal commissions.
Tracklist:
01. Introduction
02. Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351: I. Overture (Excerpt)
03. Narration (1)
04. Organ Concerto in G Minor, Op. 4 No. 1, HWV 289: III. Andante (Excerpt)
05. Narration (2)
06. Trio Sonata in G Minor, Op. 2 No. 2, HWV 387: I. Andante (Excerpt)
07. Narration (3)
08. Almira, HWV 1, Act I: Aria. Jealous torment (Excerpt)
09. Narration (4)
10. No se emendará jamás, HWV 140 "Spanish Cantata": Aria. My heart will never stop loving you (Excerpt)
11. Narration (5)
12. Agrippina, HWV 6, Act II Scene 5: Otho, what prodigious
13. Narration (6)
14. Rinaldo, HWV 7, Act II Scene 4: Let me weep (Excerpt)
15. Narration (7)
16. Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 34: IV. Lentement
17. Narration (8)
18. Water Music Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: II. Alla Hornpipe (Excerpt)
19. Narration (9)
20. Esther, HWV 50a (1720 Version): He Comes, He Comes to End Our Woes [Excerpt]
21. Narration (10)
22. Keyboard Suite No. 1 in A Major, HWV 426: I. Prélude (Excerpt)
23. Narration (11)
24. Keyboard Suite No. 2 in F Major, HWV 427: III. Adagio
25. Narration (12)
26. Giulio Cesare in Egitto, HWV 17, Act I: Aria. Silently and slyly (Excerpt)
27. Narration (13)
28. Zadok the Priest, HWV 258 (Excerpt)
29. Narration (14)
30. Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 2: No. 44, Hallelujah (Excerpt)
31. Narration (15)
32. Organ Concerto No. 9 in B-Flat Major, Op. 7 No. 3, HWV 308: III. Spiritoso (Excerpt)
33. Narration (16)
34. Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: No. 35, See, the Conqu'ring Hero Comes! (Arr. for Orchestra by Peter Breiner)
35. Narration (17)
36. Recorder Sonata in F Major, Op. 1 No. 11, HWV 369: III. Siciliana (Excerpt)
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