New Album Releases: FIVE GREAT SUITES FOR HARPSICHORD (London, 1720) - Ton Koopman

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Artist:
Ton Koopman

Genre:
Classical

Total Time:
67:07

Record Label:
Challenge Classics

Purchasing Links:
CD, MP3, Apple Music

Release Date
January 20, 2023




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Product Description: George Frideric Handel made a name for himself as a brilliant organist and harpsichordist early on in his career. As a young man, he travelled from Germany to Italy in 1707. We do not know exactly how much or what Handel composed for harpsichord while in Italy, but we know more starting from the time he settled in England. Handel composed all sorts of works for harpsichord in England, In November 1720, he published the Suites de Piecespour le Clavecin, now known as the Eight Great Suites, his most important work for harpsichord. The spectacular Eight Great Suites show Handel the harpsichordist at his best. The suites are made up not only of newly composed movements, but also of improved versions of pieces he had written before and of harpsichord arrangements of his own compositions for other instruments. One theme central to interpreting Handel's works for harpsichord (and the rest of his œuvre, for that matter) is what to do with the dotted rhythms. In Handel's music, we regularly see a theme appearing in different rhythmic variants - sometimes dotted, sometimes not, or only partially, dotted. The question, therefore, is whether to perform these rhythms uniformly throughout the piece or to play them as they were written out in each instance by the composer. I have in large part chosen the latter.

TRACK LIST:

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1 . Suite No. 3 .in D Minor - HWV 428: Prelude (Presto) (01:05)

2 . Suite No. 3 .in D Minor - HWV 428: Allegro (03:05)

3 . Suite No. 3 .in D Minor - HWV 428: Allemande (02:48)

4 . Suite No. 3 .in D Minor - HWV 428: Courante (02:01)

5 . Suite No. 3 .in D Minor - HWV 428: Air - Double 1 .- Double 2 .- Double 3 .- Double 4 .- Double 5 . (08:19)

6 . Suite No. 3 .in D Minor - HWV 428: Presto (04:14)

7 . Suite No. 2 .in F Major - HWV 427: Adagio I (02:05)

8 . Suite No. 2 .in F Major - HWV 427: Allegro I (02:11)

9 . Suite No. 2 .in F Major - HWV 427: Adagio II (01:26)

10 . Suite No. 2 .in F Major - HWV 427: Allegro II (02:38)

11 . Suite No. 8 .in F Minor - HWV 433: Prelude (Adagio) (02:17)

12 . Suite No. 8 .in F Minor - HWV 433: Allegro (02:45)

13 . Suite No. 8 .in F Minor - HWV 433: Allemande (02:42)

14 . Suite No. 8 .in F Minor - HWV 433: Courante (01:26)

15 . Suite No. 8 .in F Minor - HWV 433: Gigue (01:56)

16 . Suite No. 5 .in E Major - HWV 430: Prelude (01:56)

17 . Suite No. 5 .in E Major - HWV 430: Allemande (03:27)

18 . Suite No. 5 .in E Major - HWV 430: Courante (01:38)

19 . Suite No. 5 .in E Major - HWV 430: Air - Double 1 .- Double 2 .- Double 3 .- Double 4 .- Double 5 . (04:55)

20 . Suite No. 7 .in G Minor - HWV 432: Ouverture (Largo - Presto - Lentement) (04:05)

21 . Suite No. 7 .in G Minor - HWV 432: Andante (02:03)

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