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Kevin Mallon - Handel: Water Music/ Music for Royal Fireworks

Kevin Mallon - Handel: Water Music/ Music for Royal Fireworks

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Naxos
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Classical
Product No.: CNAX 5110115
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Brimming with exhilarating dance tunes and colorful sonorities, Handel's Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks are his two most popular orchestral works. They were composed, respectively, for royal water parties on the River Thames in August 1715 and July 1717, and to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1749, with a fireworks display in Green Park, London. While the July 1717 entertainment was an unqualified success – the King "caused it to be played three times in going and returning" – the Royal Fireworks of 1749 was "ill-conducted" and a pyrotechnic disaster, with one of the pavilions catching fire. This is the first recording of Music for the Royal Fireworks to include a transverse flute, as indicated in the original manuscript. It is used to especially beautiful effect in La Paix.

Water Music: Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV 348
I. Overture. II. Adagio e staccato
III. Allegro. IV. Andante
V. Allegro
VI. Air
VII. Menuet
VIII. Bourree
IX. Hornpipe
X. Allegro

Water Music: Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV 349
I. Allegro
II. Alla Hornpipe
III. Menuet
IV. Lentement
V. Bourree

Water Music: Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV 350
I. Sarabande
II. Rigaudon I and II
III. Menuet I and II
IV. Bourree I and II

Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
I. Overture
II. Bourree
III. La paix
IV. La rejouissance
V. Minuet I - Minuet II
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