Johannes Somary & English Chamber Orchestra – Handel: The Water Music + Royal Fireworks Music (2004)
PS3 Rip | ISO | SACD DST64 2.0 & 5.0 > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 52:19 mins | Scans included | 3,17 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Stereo (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/88,2 kHz | Scans included | 1,04 GB
Vanguard Classics Series | Label: Artemis Classics, Ltd. | Catalog No.: ATM CD 1519
Regard this Vanguard “ultra analog” CD with caution. Having Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks in its original scoring is an obvious attraction, but Water Music is drastically shortchanged in the 11-movement suite offered here. Since it is possible to fit the complete Water Music and Music for the Royal Fireworks on a single disc, the loss of the Suite in G major and half of the Suite in D major is unreasonable. Be that as it may, Johannes Somary and the English Chamber Orchestra offer fairly enjoyable performances, though modern instruments are used and some niceties of Baroque interpretation — such as swung rhythms and freely improvised ornamentation — are used sparingly. The woodwind and brass sonorities in Fireworks should be more impressive and massive, but the microphone placement puts the horns and trumpets rather close and makes the choirs of oboes, bassoons, and serpents seem remote and echoic. The 1973 analog recordings have been cleaned of tape hiss, though few other enhancements are evident.
Tracklist:
George Frederick Handel: Water Music Suite No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348
01. Ouverture
02. Adagio E Staccato
03. Allegro in 3/4
04. Air
05. Minuet I
06. Bourée
07. Hornpipe
08. Andante in D Minor
George Frederick Handel: Water Music Suite No.2 for orchestra in D major, HWV 349
09. Allegro
10. Bourée
11. Alla Hornpipe
12. Ouverture (Adagio, Allegro)
George Frederick Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351
13. Bourée
14. La Paix
15. La Réjouissance
16. Menuet and Trio
Note:
Recorded at Conway Hall, London, in 1973.
Recording Engineer: Robert Auger.
Produced for Multichannel SACD by David Baker.
Engineered for Multichannel SACD by Tracy Martinson.
SACD Authoring: Hiroyuki Komuro.
SACD ISO
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