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  • Release Date: 04/14/2009
  • 30 Disc Set
  • Sales Rank: 11,045
  • Label: DECCA
  • UPC: 028947811909

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Handel: The Masterworks

1. Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351 17:12
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Conducted by Neville Marriner
Performed by Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
2. Water Music Suite No.3 for orchestra in G major, HWV 350: Menuet & Trio 5:04
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Conducted by Neville Marriner
Performed by Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
3. Water Music Suite No.3 for orchestra in G major, HWV 350: Rigaudon 1 and 2 3:25
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Conducted by Neville Marriner
Performed by Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
4. Water Music Suite No.3 for orchestra in G major, HWV 350: Gigue 1:27
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Conducted by Neville Marriner
Performed by Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
5. Water Music Suite No.2 for orchestra in D major, HWV 349 9:29
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Conducted by Neville Marriner
Performed by Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
6. Water Music Suite No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348: Ouverture 3:40
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Conducted by Neville Marriner
Performed by Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields

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Celebrate the Handel anniversary with this impressive 30-CD box set of the composer’s most celebrated works, including the Royal Fireworks and Water Music, Messiah, Concerti Grossi, and much more.

The recordings feature conductors Sir Neville Marriner, Christopher Hogwood, Trevor Pinnock, Mark Minkowski, and others, leading the Gabrielli Players, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, English Baroque Soloists, and others.

Includes:

  • CD 1: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Water Music
  • CD 2-4: Concerti grossi, op. 6 & op. 3
  • CD 5-6: Organ Concerti, op. 7 & op. 4
  • CD 7: Sonata: Il trionfo del tempo e del Disinganno; Organ Concerti Nos. 13-16; Oboe Concerti, op. 3 nos. 1 & 2a; Largo in F, HWV 302b
  • CD 8: Oboe Concerto, op. 3 no. 3; Arrival of the Queen of Sheba; Concerto grosso in C "Alexander’s Feast"; 3 Concerti a due cori
  • CD 9-11: Chamber Music - selection: Trio sonatas, op. 2 nos. 1-6; Sonata in F, HWV 392; Sonata in G minor, HWV 393; flute sonatas, HWV 374-376; 378 & 379
  • CD 12-13: Messiah [Ameling/Reynolds/Langridge/Howell/Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner]
  • CD 14-15: Israel in Egypt, 1739 version 1, including the Original Part 1 The Ways of Zion do Mourn [Bostridge/Chance/Gritton/Varcoe/Choir of King’s College/Cleobury]
  • CD 16: 4 Coronation Anthems [Choir of Westminster Abbey/The English Concert/Pinnock/Preston]
  • CD 17: Dixit Dominus; Nisi Dominus; Salve regina [Auger/Dawson/Montague/Birchall/Orchestra of Westminster Abbey/Preston]
  • CD 18: Dettingen Te Deum; Dettingen Anthem [Choir of Westminster Abbey/The English Concert/Pinnock/Preston]
  • CD 19: Ode for St Cecilia’s Day [Lott/Rolfe Johnson/The English Concert and Choir/Pinnock]
  • CD 20-21: Hercules [Tomlinson/Rolfe Johnson/Walker/Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner]
  • CD 22-24: Judas Maccabaeus [Davies/Palmer/Baker/Shirley-Quirk/English Chamber Orchestra/Mackerras]
  • CD 25-27: Solomon [Scholl/Dam-Jensen/Gritton/Hagley/Gabrieli Consort & Players/McCreesh]
  • CD 28-30: Giulio Cesare [Mijanovic/Koz¡ená/von Otter/Les Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski]

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