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Handel's 8 Great Harpsichord Suites

Bridget Cunningham

Label: Signum Classics
Catalogue number: SIGCD 679
EAN / barcode: 0635212067925
Release date: 3 February 2022
Number of CDs: 2
Type: Album

This important new recording revisits George Frideric Handel's monumental Suites de Pièces pour le Clavecin – subsequently known as the Eight Great Harpsichord Suites as well as his Chaconne in G major and some world première recordings of Handel's superb arrangements of operatic arias and ouvertures which were specially reworked and ornamented by Handel for the harpsichord. The album celebrates the 300th anniversary of the first publication of these works on 14 November 1720. Bridget Cunningham is an international conductor, prizewinning harpsichordist and musicologist who trained at the Royal College of Music and was awarded a Junior Fellowship to work in the Centre for Performance History and coach singers in the baroque style. Cunningham is also Artistic Director of London Early Opera with a number of critically-acclaimed recordings out on Signum Classics.

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Tracklist

01 Suite no. 1 in A major, HWV 426: I. Prélude 01:54
02 Suite no. 1 in A major, HWV 426: II. Allemande 03:20
03 Suite no. 1 in A major, HWV 426: III. Courante 02:55
04 Suite no. 1 in A major, HWV 426: IV. Gigue 03:17
05 Suite no. 2 in F major, HWV 427: I. Adagio 02:16
06 Suite no. 2 in F major, HWV 427: II. Allegro 02:36
07 Suite no. 2 in F major, HWV 427: III. Adagio 01:21
08 Suite no. 2 in F major, HWV 427: IV. Allegro 02:34
09 Suite no. 3 in D minor, HWV 428: I. Prélude 00:58
10 Suite no. 3 in D minor, HWV 428: II. Allegro 02:38
11 Suite no. 3 in D minor, HWV 428: III. Allemande 03:35
12 Suite no. 3 in D minor, HWV 428: IV. Courante 02:16
13 Suite no. 3 in D minor, HWV 428: V. Air and Variations 08:23
14 Suite no. 3 in D minor, HWV 428: VI. Presto 04:29
15 Suite no. 4 in E minor, HWV 429: I. Allegro 03:47
16 Suite no. 4 in E minor, HWV 429: II. Allemande 02:20
17 Suite no. 4 in E minor, HWV 429: III. Courante 02:24
18 Suite no. 4 in E minor, HWV 429: IV. Sarabande 03:06
19 Suite no. 4 in E minor, HWV 429: V. Gigue 01:45
20 Suite no. 5 in E major, HWV 430: I. Prélude 02:16
21 Suite no. 5 in E major, HWV 430: II. Allemande 04:24
22 Suite no. 5 in E major, HWV 430: III. Courante 02:21
23 Suite no. 5 in E major, HWV 430: IV. Air and Variations, “The Harmonious Blacksmith” 04:49
24 Suite no. 6 in F-sharp minor, HWV 431: I. Prélude 01:44
25 Suite no. 6 in F-sharp minor, HWV 431: II. Largo 01:32
26 Suite no. 6 in F-sharp minor, HWV 431: III. Allegro 02:46
27 Suite no. 6 in F-sharp minor, HWV 431: IV. Gigue 02:53
28 Suite no. 7 in G minor, HWV 432: I. Overture 05:16
29 Suite no. 7 in G minor, HWV 432: II. Andante 03:11
30 Suite no. 7 in G minor, HWV 432: III. Allegro 02:14
31 Suite no. 7 in G minor, HWV 432: IV. Sarabande 02:09
32 Suite no. 7 in G minor, HWV 432: V. Gigue 01:24
33 Suite no. 7 in G minor, HWV 432: VI. Passacaille 04:14
34 Suite no. 8 in F minor, HWV 433: I. Prélude 02:04
35 Suite no. 8 in F minor, HWV 433: II. Allegro 02:45
36 Suite no. 8 in F minor, HWV 433: III. Allemande 03:59
37 Suite no. 8 in F minor, HWV 433: IV. Courante 01:58
38 Suite no. 8 in F minor, HWV 433: V. Gigue 02:28
39 Muzio Scevola, HWV 13: Ouverture 04:33
40 Pupille sdegnose, sareste pietose, HWV 482 04:43
41 Come, se ti vedrò, cara, partir, potrò, HWV 482 04:49
42 Sventurato godi o core abbandonato, HWV 482 06:22
43 Riccardo Primo Overture, HWV 456 05:11
44 Ombra cara de mia sposa, HWV 482 06:48
45 Chaconne in G major (version V), HWV 435 11:23

Source: MusicBrainz

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