Handel: Suites Pour Clavecin
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GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Handel: Suites Pour Clavecin
Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord)
[ Mirare / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 20 November 2020
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A European bestseller in their time, Händel's 1720 suites are far from having regained, in concert and on disc, the eminent place they once held. Does the fault lie with the anathema pronounced by the 'pope' Gustav Leonhardt, who always openly shunned Händel? With the man himself, a startling virtuoso, but keener to compose for the opera? With recordings that are often pleasant but rarely showcase the strongest personalities of their generation?
Three decades after the exceptional Scott Ross, Pierre Hantaï in his turn is determined to rehabilitate Händel the harpsichord composer.
GRAMOPHONE Award Nomination 2021 - Instrumental
"At last - a masterful account of Handel's harpsichord suites on the instrument for which they were written. Pierre Hantaï allows the music to breathe, with unfussy, clean playing" BBC Music
"His performances are clean-cut and thought-out, full of pert little trills and mordents, tasteful rhythmic dislocations and a variety of spread-chord formulations...Last, but not least, there is his busy and brilliant range of ornamentations, which can swell the sound, emphasise an individual moment or transform disjointed harpsichord notes into violin-like swirls and flourishes." Gramophone Editor's Choice Feb 2021
Tracks:
Suite in A Major, HWV 426
Keyboard Suite, HWV 427 in F major
Suite in D Minor, HWV 428
Fugue in C minor, HWV610
Suite in E Minor, HWV 429
