HANDEL Water Music
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Composer or Director: George Frideric Handel
Genre:
Orchestral
Label: BIS
Magazine Review Date: 03/2014
Media Format: Super Audio CD
Media Runtime: 61
Mastering:
DDD
Catalogue Number: BIS2027
Tracks:
Composition | Artist Credit |
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Water Music |
George Frideric Handel, Composer
George Frideric Handel, Composer Manfred Huss, Conductor Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta |
(The) Occasional Oratorio, Movement: Overture |
George Frideric Handel, Composer
George Frideric Handel, Composer Manfred Huss, Conductor Vienna Haydn Sinfonietta |
Author: David Vickers
The Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, led expertly by Simon Standage, play crisply and neatly: amiable horns and oboes chuckle in all the right places, the oboe-and-bassoon trios are moderately playful, and the trumpets and horns are splendid in the Hornpipe (in which timpanist Alexander Grün intelligently improvises a suitable part). The lean strings shape the music tastefully, albeit with occasionally uneven intonation; the ensemble between violins and flute in the Menuet is patchy (the combination succeeds better in the livelier Rigaudons). The Lentement becomes bombastic and the cluster of Minuets (sometimes nicknamed the ‘Country Dance’) might have benefited from more tenderness or humour as each section insinuates, but the spectacular overture from the Occasional Oratorio (1746) provides a magnificent encore.
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