Scipione Sangiovanni - George Frideric Handel: 9 Suites (2018)
Scipione Sangiovanni - George Frideric Handel: 9 Suites (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 411 Mb | Total time: 56:01+58:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Piano Classics | PCL10143 | Recorded: 2018
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 411 Mb | Total time: 56:01+58:29 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Piano Classics | PCL10143 | Recorded: 2018
Following the success across Europe of his eight ‘Grand Suites’ for harpsichord in 1720, albeit in a doctored and pirated edition, Handel resolved to make good on his promise of a sequel, ‘reckoning it my duty with my small talent to serve a Nation from which I have received so generous a protection.’
At length this occurred, with the appearance in 1730 of a second volume, now containing nine such suites, though again the composer’s responsibility for its publication remains unclear. Handel appears eventually to have entered into cooperation with the London publisher John Walsh once the Royal Privilege he had secured for the printing of his own works had expired. Thus a radically revised edition of the suites appeared in 1733-4, and it is this that Scipione Sangiovanni has recorded.
Like the Grand Suites, the second volume contains both original and arranged music for keyboard composed throughout Handel’s career, though heavily weighted towards his youth: virtually all the contents predate 1706 (the exceptions being HWV434 from before 1717/8 and HWV436 from between 1721 and 1726). Having received no further attention from the mature composer, they retain a sense of the confident if sometimes undisciplined exuberance of his youth. They include the grand, standalone G major Chaconne HWV435 as well as a still more expansive example of the form, HWV442.
In recording the suites (and chaconnes), Scipione Sangiovanni joins an increasing number of soloists who view the range of tonal possibilities afforded by the modern piano as complementary to the soundworld envisaged by the composer. Having recorded a well-received album of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons in a solo-piano arrangement, he is practised in the art of transferring Baroque articulation and idiom to the touch of the piano, which in this case is a Kawai model.
The keyboard suites by Handel never gained the same popularity as the suites by Bach (French, Suites, English Suites, Partitas) or the sonatas by his Italian contemporary Domenico Scarlatti. Yes they are very attractive works, Handelian in the synthesis of South German and Italian keyboard characteristics within a very strict French style and structure. Though never obviously virtuosic they are certainly challenging for the performer and the musical content is definitively that of the Handel of the great oratorios, operas and orchestral music: bold, dramatic and festive or affectionate.
The young Italian pianist Scipione Sangiovianni plays the suites on a modern grand piano, in a stylish, natural and utterly musical way, never trying to imitate the harpsichord but letting the music speak for itself.
Scipione Sangiovanni is winner of several international piano competitions, among which is the Debut International Piano Competition of New York..
Performer:
Scipione Sangiovanni, piano
Tracklist:
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)
CD1:
Suite in B-Flat Major HWV 434
01. I. Praeludium
02. II. Sonata
03. III. Aria con variazione
04. IV. Minuetto
05. Ciaccona in G Major HWV 435 11’16
Suite in D Minor HWV 436
06. I. Allemande
07. II. Allegro
08. III. Air
09. IV. Gigue
10. V. Minuetto
Suite in D Minor HWV 437
11. I. Allemande
12. II. Courante
13. III. Sarabande con variazione 3’38
14. IV. Gigue
Suite in E Minor HWV 438
15. I. Allemande
16. II. Sarabande
17. III. Gigue
CD2:
Suite in G Minor HWV 439
01. I. Allemande
02. II. Courante
03. III. Gigue
Suite in B-Flat Major HWV 440
04. I. Allemande
05. II. Courante
06. III. Sarabande
07. IV. Gigue
Suite in G Major HWV 441
08. I. Allemande
09. II. Allegro
10. III. Courante
11. IV. Aria
12. V. Minuetto
13. VI. Gavotto
14. VII. Gigue
Ciaccona in G Major HWV 442
15. I. Praeludium
16. II. Ciaccona con variazioni
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