Fugue or Voluntary No 6 in C minor, HWV610

composer

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

1716/7; published 1735

Recordings

Handel: Harpsichord Suites

Paul Nicholson (harpsichord/virginals)

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Details

Paul Nicholson (harpsichord/virginals)

Track 21 on CDD22045 CD2 [3'00] 2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1)

Fugue or Voluntary No 6 in C minor, HWV610

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Fugue No 6 in C minor is solemn rather than desperate, perhaps even prophetic of the tragic darkness C minor acquired in the nineteenth-century symphonies of Beethoven, Schubert, Brahms, Bruckner and Mahler. This is a tonal rather than real fugue since its subject, wriggling around the fifth, answers a semitone with a minor third. Despite a luscious passage of sequential seventh chords, the rigorously logical movement preserves human dignity and rationality in the face of fickle fortune.

Track-specific metadata

Details for CDD22045 disc 2 track 21

Artists

Paul Nicholson (harpsichord/virginals)

ISRC

GB-AJY-95-93221

Duration

3'00

Recording date

1 May 1994

Recording venue

All Saints' Church, East Finchley, London, United Kingdom

Recording producer

Martin Compton

Recording engineer

Antony Howell

Hyperion usage

Handel: The Eight Great Suites (CDA66931/2)
Disc 2 Track 21
Release date: February 1995
Deletion date: November 2002
2CDs Superseded by CDD22045
Handel: Harpsichord Suites (CDD22045)
Disc 2 Track 21
Release date: November 2002
2CDs Dyad (2 for the price of 1)

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