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Handel & Telemann: Water Music

Robert King: The King's Consort

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Cat No: CDA66967

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Release Date:  01 July 1997

Label:  Hyperion Records Ltd

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  034571169675

Genres:  Classical  Orchestral  

  • Description

    Ten years ago Robert King and The King's Consort made a stunning recording of Handel's Fireworks Music; now comes the turn of the Water Music, and the results are even more impressive.
    George Philipp Telemann's Wassermusik (commonly known as 'Hamburger Ebb und Fluth' – an oblique reference to the local method of sewage disposal!) was composed for a grand celebration of seafaring life during 1723. The music was noted at the time for being 'uncommonly well-suited to the occasion', and not least for its subject-matter: Telemann guides his audience through a pageant of aquatic folklore and meteorology.
    Six years earlier Handel had been commissioned for a directly comparable occasion: an enormous party on the river Thames given by George I. A large orchestra was present on the musicians' barge: a good-size string section and a substantial wind presence. The sound of a large baroque wind band produces a magnificent sonority. Similarly, a colourful continuo force on the river seems probable. The rhythmic impetus of a pair of baroque guitars combined with the colours of two harpsichords lends the music a vital danceband-like rhythm section, much in keeping with the King's colourful intentions for his evening's entertainment!
    All faithfully recreated, of course. Except for the barge.

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Water Music - Suit In F Major: Ouverture (Largo - Allegro)
      • 2. Water Music - Suit In F Major: Adagio e staccto
      • 3. Water Music - Suit In F Major: (Allegro) - Andante - (Allegro)
      • 4. Water Music - Suit In F Major: (Menuet)
      • 5. Water Music - Suit In F Major: Air
      • 6. Water Music - Suit In F Major: Menuet
      • 7. Water Music - Suit In F Major: Bourree
      • 8. Water Music - Suit In F Major: Hornpipe
      • 9. (Andante)
      • 10. Suite In D - G Major: (Ouverture)
      • 11. Suite In D - G Major: Alla Hornpipe
      • 12. Suite In D - G Major: [Menuet]
      • 13. Suite In D - G Major: Rigaudon
      • 14. Suite In D - G Major: Lentement
      • 15. Suite In D - G Major: Bourree
      • 16. Suite In D - G Major: Menuet (1)
      • 17. Suite In D - G Major: (Menuet II)
      • 18. Suite In D - G Major: (Country Dance 1 & 2)
      • 19. Suite In D - G Major: (Trumpet Menuet)
      • 20. Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' Und Flute: Ouverture
      • 21. Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' Und Flute: Sarabande: die schlafende thetis
      • 22. Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' Und Flute: Bourree: Die erwachende Thetis
      • 23. Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' Und Flute: Loure: Der verliebte Neptunus
      • 24. Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' Und Flute: Gavotte: Spielend Najaden
      • 25. Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' Und Flute: Harlequinade: Der schertzende Tritonus
      • 26. Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' Und Flute: Der sturmende Aeolus
      • 27. Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' Und Flute: Menuet: Der angenehme Zephir
      • 28. Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' Und Flute: Gigue: Ebb' und Fluth
      • 29. Wassermusik - Hamburger Ebb' Und Flute: Canarie: Die lustigen Bots Leute