Hyperion Records | Handel: Handel in Hamburg

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Stadt Hamburg in der Elbe Auen (c1700). Anonymous
AKG London

CDA67053
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Recording details: December 1997
St Jude-on-the-Hill, Hampstead Garden Suburb, London, United Kingdom
Produced by Martin Compton
Engineered by Antony Howell & Julian Millard
Release date: October 1998
Total duration: 62 minutes 42 seconds

AMERICAN HANDEL SOCIETY RECORDING PRIZE

'A highly entertaining collection. Delightful rarities from the young Handel' (Classic CD)

'A marvellous disc' (The Independent')

'The disc is warmly commended' (Fanfare)

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Handel in Hamburg

The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (conductor)

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		Almira, HWV1
1		Suite. Movement 1: Ouverture [3'58]
2		Suite. Movement 2: Courante [1'16]
3		Suite. Movement 3: Bourree [0'35]
4		Suite. Movement 4: Menuet [0'43]
5		Suite. Movement 5: Rigaudon [0'56]
6		Suite. Movement 6: Rondeau [1'18]
7		Suite. Movement 7: Sarabande [2'13]
8		Suite. Movement 8: Gigue [0'59]
9		Suite. Movement 9: Chaconne [1'26]
		Suite in G minor, HWV453
10		Movement 1: Ouverture [2'27]
11		Movement 2: Entree [1'43]
12		Movement 3: Menuet 1 – Menuet 2 – Menuet 1 [2'47]
13		Movement 4: Chaconne [2'22]
		Oboe Concerto in G minor, HWV287
14		Movement 1: Grave [2'33] Frank De Bruine (oboe)
15		Movement 2: Allegro [1'43] Frank De Bruine (oboe)
16		Movement 3: Sarabande. Largo [1'49] Frank De Bruine (oboe)
17		Movement 4: Allegro [1'47] Frank De Bruine (oboe)
		Suite from the operas Florindo and Daphne, HWV336, 352-4
18		Movement 01: Ouverture [3'32]
19		Movement 02: Sarabande [1'58]
20		Movement 03: Gavotte [0'40]
21		Movement 04: Menuet [1'19]
22		Movement 05: Allemande [0'41]
23		Movement 06: Bourree – Allemande [1'09]
24		Movement 07: Menuet [1'24]
25		Movement 08: Allemande [1'02]
26		Movement 09: Coro [1'17]
27		Movement 10: Allemande [0'53]
28		Movement 11: Rigaudon – Allemande [1'48]
		Rodrigo, HWV5
29		Overture. Movement 1: Ouverture [3'36]
30		Overture. Movement 2: Gigue [0'57]
31		Overture. Movement 3: Sarabande [2'06]
32		Overture. Movement 4: Matelot [1'16]
33		Overture. Movement 5: Menuet [1'15]
34		Overture. Movement 6: Bourree [1'05]
35		Overture. Movement 7: [Air] [1'03]
36		Overture. Movement 8: Menuet [1'07]
37		Overture. Movement 9: Passacaille [3'59]

Handel arrived in Hamburg in 1703, aged eighteen. He spent four years in the city and wrote several works for the town's opera house. Hamburg opera was a rather eclectic beast at the time, drawing on Italian and French language and instrumental style alongside the native German. Handel fell happily into this genre; this CD brings together a selection of the delightful orchestral music (which tends to be in the French style) that Handel wrote there, some of it recorded for the first time.