Track Listings (31) - Disc #1| All Artists: George Frideric Handel, Andrew Manze, The Academy of Ancient Music Title: Handel - Concerti grossi, op. 6 / AAM · Manze Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: Harmonia Mundi Fr. Release Date: 9/8/1998 Album Type: Import Genre: Classical Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Concertos, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750), Classical (c.1770-1830) Number of Discs: 2 SwapaCD Credits: 2 UPC: 093046722821 |
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 | George Frideric Handel, Andrew Manze, The Academy of Ancient Music Handel - Concerti grossi, op. 6 / AAM · Manze Genre: Classical
From the onset of the historical performances movement some years back, listeners have been subjected to a great many historically correct yet musically limp, passive and rudderless performances. So conductor Andrew Manze ... more » |
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Amazon.com essential recording From the onset of the historical performances movement some years back, listeners have been subjected to a great many historically correct yet musically limp, passive and rudderless performances. So conductor Andrew Manze deserves real credit for the marvelous job he does here with the Academy of Ancient Music in the twelve Concerti Grossi, Opus 6, of George Frideric Handel. With great warmth as well as vigor he lets these felicitous, robust works come to life. What we hear is more color, more meat and more life than we are likely to get from a typical early music ensemble. Manze is a great musician. --Gwendolyn Freed Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsBaroque splendor Timothy F. Ortlieb | USA | 07/31/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "This is a great recording of Handel's glorious op. 6 concerti. These players produce such an array of tone color that you forget that they're playing period strings. These performances are polished and exhibit impeccable intonation, with sweet-toned soloists and massed string textures standing out in terraced relief. Musically, these performances are most sensitive, as well, and the overall result is rich in grandeur and classic profile. It's worth noting that this complete set fits onto two discs instead of the usual three but the playing is uplifting and spirited rather than rushed. Beautifully recorded, too." A recording of the century...really! Gregory M. Zinkl | Chicago, IL | 04/09/2001 (5 out of 5 stars) "Manze has outdone himself, as have the Academy of Ancient Music.There is life, there is magic, there is some beautiful playing, there is everything you could possibly want in a recording of this wonderful score. Even if you forego period instruments, you should really try these guys out! Forget Orpheus's attempt, and please ignore the bizarre recommendation for I Musici de Montreal on Chandos (great sound and cold playing). This recording really puts all those to shame.To top it all off, not only do you have wonderful music-making, but you also get intelligent and delightful notes that are humorous too.A first-class production. Maybe the classical music recording industry isn't dead quite yet!" Handel's Op. 6 as Orchestral Theatre Iter Facio hs7@umail.edu | Chevy Chase, MD | 11/30/1999 (5 out of 5 stars) "Virtually every reviewer of this landmark performance has justifyably praised its sensitivity, power, precision, and brilliance. But it gives the listener far more, for like much of Mozart's instrumental music Handel's evokes opera in almost every bar in a way that throws off images of summer nights as backdrops to partings of lovers, battles, conspiracies and all the wonderous fol-de-rol of opera seria. Best of all the performances provides the psychological experience of Handlian theatre. One can praise this performance to the skies, but one cannot really grasp the wonder of this music as it is performed here unless one knows something of the operas."
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