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Handel, Somary, English Chamber Orchestra
Water Music / Royal Fireworks Music
Genre: Classical

Track Listings (16) - Disc #1
1. Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351: Ouverture
2. Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351: Bour?e
3. Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351: La Paix
4. Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351: La R?jouissance
5. Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351: Menuet and Trio
6. Water Music Suites Nos 1-3 for orchestra, HWV 348-350: Ouverture {from the F Major Suite}
7. Water Music Suites Nos 1-3 for orchestra, HWV 348-350: Adagio e staccato {from the F Major Suite}
8. Water Music Suites Nos 1-3 for orchestra, HWV 348-350: Allegro in 3/4 {from the F Major Suite}
9. Water Music Suites Nos 1-3 for orchestra, HWV 348-350: Air {from the F Major Suite}
10. Water Music Suites Nos 1-3 for orchestra, HWV 348-350: Minuet I {from the F Major Suite}
11. Water Music Suites Nos 1-3 for orchestra, HWV 348-350: Bour?e {from the F Major Suite}
12. Water Music Suites Nos 1-3 for orchestra, HWV 348-350: Hornpipe {from the F Major Suite}
13. Water Music Suites Nos 1-3 for orchestra, HWV 348-350: Andante in D Minor {from the F Major Suite}
14. Water Music Suites Nos 1-3 for orchestra, HWV 348-350: Allegro {from the D Major Suite}
15. Water Music Suites Nos 1-3 for orchestra, HWV 348-350: Bour?e {from the D Major Suite}
16. Water Music Suites Nos 1-3 for orchestra, HWV 348-350: Alla Hornpipe {from the D Major Suite}

CD Details

All Artists: Handel, Somary, English Chamber Orchestra
Title: Water Music / Royal Fireworks Music
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Vanguard Classics
Release Date: 9/3/1996
Genre: Classical
Styles: Chamber Music, Forms & Genres, Suites, Historical Periods, Baroque (c.1600-1750), Classical (c.1770-1830), Modern, 20th, & 21st Century
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 723918004723

Synopsis

Amazon.com

Handel wrote the original score of the Royal Fireworks Music for an absolutely crazy assortment of winds, brass and percussion: 21 oboes, 21 bassoons, 9 horns, 9 trumpets, 3 snare drums, and several sets of timpani (including extra large ones called double timpani). Until the mid-1960s or so, no one had any idea what this sort of thing sounded like. Then Charles Mackerras and Johannes Somary, each for different labels, got together just about every spare wind and brass player in London and decided to find out. The result is this absolutely sensational frolic that will surely have your neighbors running for cover. It's a blast. Literally. --David Hurwitz

CD Reviews

Tons of Fun

Bernard P. Gilbert | Alexandria, VA United States | 11/21/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"This "Fireworks" really DOES have fireworks. Every gesture is grand, the sound is terrific (you can almost feel the whacks on the side drums), and you get the feeling Somary told the horns he didn't want to hear anything less than a mezzo-forte. A friend of mine (a classical violinist) can't stand it, but everyone who's tired of hearing oh-so-proper performances of Baroque music will enjoy it. This is one of those turn-up-the volume-and-tell-your-friends-"hey, guys, listen to this!" albums.Makes me wish Handel had scored the "Water Music" the same way. Somary uses a more traditional scoring here, with strings, and although the performance is robust, I don't listen to it nearly as much as the "Fireworks"."

Original Score

poletti | São Paulo, São Paulo Brazil | 08/15/2002

(5 out of 5 stars)

"One of the bests ! I heard this CD when I was trying to find a Handel Coronation Anthems CD and this recording was love at the first sight. The English Chamber Orchestra conducts this work in Original Score."