G.F.Handel - Water Music & Fireworks
Georg Friedrich Handel - Water Music & Fireworks
(1st historical version (original instrumentation and tuning)
1 CD | 2008 | Total Time 64'54'' | FLAC (tracks) | NO CUE | NO LOG | Cover & Booklet (ENG) | 340 Mb in 7 RARs
(1st historical version (original instrumentation and tuning)
1 CD | 2008 | Total Time 64'54'' | FLAC (tracks) | NO CUE | NO LOG | Cover & Booklet (ENG) | 340 Mb in 7 RARs
"After half a century of musicological, organological and scientific investigation, the different guidelines we use for interpreting the Baroque repertoire have become very precise. If so, why are we still suspicious of the results of these investigations? It has been the intention of the hundred (!!!) musicians gathered here for the performance of the Water Music and Fireworks suites, in celebration of the 15th anniversary of Le Concert Spirituel, to put into practice, without any concessions, what they know of these early techniques, each one according to his or her field of specialization. [...] The sound is unusual in its colours and its energy; some ears, unaccostumed to meantone temperament, can expect to be surprised. But our queries and intuitions have met with bold answers, transparent and enriching, and that, without a doubt, show respect for thework." -
Water Music. Suite I (HWV 348)
Water Music. Suite II (HWV 349)
Water Music. Suite III (HWV 350)
Music for the Royal Fireworks (HWV 351)
Le Concert Spirituel
Hervé Niquet
(Recorded september 2002)
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