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Compact Disc CDA67053

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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.

Recorded on 3-5 December 1997
Recording Engineers
ANTONY HOWELL
JULIAN MILLARD
Recording Producer
MARTIN COMPTON
Cover Design
TERRY SHANNON
Booklet Editor
NICK FLOWER
Executive Producers
EDWARD PERRY
SIMON PERRY
© Hyperion Records Ltd, London, MCMXCVIII

Duration: 63'38
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Front illustration: Stadt Hamburg in der Elbe Auen (Anonymous)

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759)

Handel in Hamburg

THE PARLEY OF INSTRUMENTS
PETER HOLMAN director

with FRANK DE BRUINE oboe
ELIZABETH WALLFISCH violin (leader)

Contents:

    Suite from the opera Almira HWV1 (1705) [13'30]
    reconstructed by Peter Holman - first recording
  1. Ouverture [3'58]
  2. Courante [1'16]
  3. Bourree [0'35]
  4. Menuet [0'43]
  5. Riguadon [0'56]
  6. Rondeau [1'18]
  7. Saraband [2'13]
  8. Gigue [0'59]
  9. Chaconne [1'26]

    Suite in G minor HWV453, possibly from the opera Nero (1705) [9'29]

    reconstructed by Peter Holman - first recording
  10. Ouverture [2'27]
  11. Entree [1'43]
  12. Menuet 1 / Menuet 2 / Menuet 1 [2'47]
  13. Chaconne [2'22]

    Oboe Concerto in G minor HWV287 (?1703-5) [8'07]

  14. Grave [2'33]
  15. Allegro [1'43]
  16. Sarabande (Largo) [1'49]
  17. Allegro [1'47]

    Suite from the operas Florindo and Daphne HWV336, 352-4 (?1705-6) [15'50]

    first recording
  18. Ouverture [3'32]
  19. Sarabande [1'58]
  20. Gavotte [0'40]
  21. Menuet [1'19]
  22. Allemande [0'41]
  23. Bourree– Allemande [1'09]
  24. Menuet [1'24]
  25. Allemande [1'02]
  26. Coro [1'17]
  27. Allemande [0'53]
  28. Rigaudon– Allemande [1'48]

    Overture in B flat major from the opera Rodrigo HWV5 (?1706) [16'19]

  29. Ouverture [3'36]
  30. Gigue [0'57]
  31. Sarabande [2'06]
  32. Matelot [1'16]
  33. Menuet [1'15]
  34. Bourree [1'05]
  35. [Air] - [1'03]
  36. Menuet [1'07]
  37. Passacaille [3'59]
Sleeve Notes

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)

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