Handel's Memories - A selection from Grand Concertos op. 6
Al Ayre Español
- Label
- Challenge Classics
- Catalogusnummer
- CC 72548
- EAN / barcode
- 0608917254822
- Verschijningsdatum
- 17 mei 2012
- Aantal cd's
- 2
- Type
- Album
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Something new and something borrowed. In the days that Handel lived, it was common to use an existing melody and make it your own. Handel's Grand Concertos contains a surprising quantity of newly composed material, as well as some borrowings, such as the memories or musical anecdotes, written with intense lyricism and certain sentimentality, previously absent from his instrumental music. His “operatic” Concerto No. 8, written in the ill-natured, though also lovely, tonality of C minor, is one of the most dramatic in the collection, and concurrently possesses one of the most interesting structures. It starts with a movement based on the main motif of an allemande – “a German piece” – by Johann Mattheson, published in his Pièces de clavecin (London, 1714, the same year as Corelli’s concerts). The Componimenti Musicali by Gottlieb Theophil Muffat, with whom the German composer exchanged music during the 1730s, provide Handel with some ideas from which he builds formidable orchestral movements in these concertos. “He takes other men's pebbles and polishes them into diamonds”, the British composer William Boyce used to say of him. It could not be more true when we observe the use Handel makes of these and other loans. Al Ayre Espanol with this performance makes us aware of the sheer beauty of this music, which always turns into gold in the hands of master Handel: new or borrowed. Grand concertos grandly performed!
Tracklist
- 01 Grand Concerto in G major, op. 6 no. 1: A tempo giusto 01:49
- 02 Grand Concerto in G major, op. 6 no. 1: Allegro 01:38
- 03 Grand Concerto in G major, op. 6 no. 1: Adagio 05:39
- 04 Grand Concerto in G major, op. 6 no. 1: Allegro 02:37
- 05 Grand Concerto in G major, op. 6 no. 1: Allegro 00:04
- 06 Grand Concerto in C minor, op. 6 no. 8: Allemande 05:42
- 07 Grand Concerto in C minor, op. 6 no. 8: Grave - Andante allegro 03:24
- 08 Grand Concerto in C minor, op. 6 no. 8: Adagio 01:30
- 09 Grand Concerto in C minor, op. 6 no. 8: Siciliana 03:59
- 10 Grand Concerto in C minor, op. 6 no. 8: Allegro 01:08
- 11 Grand Concerto in G minor, op. 6 no. 6: Larghetto e affettuoso 04:01
- 12 Grand Concerto in G minor, op. 6 no. 6: Allegro ma non troppo 01:36
- 13 Grand Concerto in G minor, op. 6 no. 6: Musette: Larghetto 06:01
- 14 Grand Concerto in G minor, op. 6 no. 6: Allegro 02:48
- 15 Grand Concerto in G minor, op. 6 no. 6: Allegro 02:18
- 16 Grand Concerto in D minor, op. 6 no. 10: Ouverture 04:12
- 17 Grand Concerto in D minor, op. 6 no. 10: Air 04:42
- 18 Grand Concerto in D minor, op. 6 no. 10: Allegro 02:56
- 19 Grand Concerto in D minor, op. 6 no. 10: Allegro 02:34
- 20 Grand Concerto in D minor, op. 6 no. 10: Allegro moderato 02:01
- 21 Grand Concerto in D major, op. 6 no. 5: Ouverture 03:56
- 22 Grand Concerto in D major, op. 6 no. 5: Presto 02:05
- 23 Grand Concerto in D major, op. 6 no. 5: Largo 02:53
- 24 Grand Concerto in D major, op. 6 no. 5: Allegro 02:11
- 25 Grand Concerto in D major, op. 6 no. 5: Menuet: Un poco larghetto 03:19
- 26 Grand Concerto in A major, op. 6 no. 11: Andante larghetto, e staccato 05:29
- 27 Grand Concerto in A major, op. 6 no. 11: Allegro 01:40
- 28 Grand Concerto in A major, op. 6 no. 11: Largo e staccato 01:55
- 29 Grand Concerto in A major, op. 6 no. 11: Andante 04:46
- 30 Grand Concerto in A major, op. 6 no. 11: Allegro 05:09
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