Edinburgh 1742: Barsanti & Handel
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FRANCESCO BARSANTI / GEORG FRIDERIC HANDEL
Edinburgh 1742: Barsanti & Handel
Ensemble Marsyas & Peter Whelan
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Release Date: Friday 25 August 2017
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The popular Ensemble Marsyas returns with a diverse programme of concerti, wind music and Scottish songs by composers Francesco Barsanti and George Frideric Handel, centred around the music composed for The Edinburgh Musical Society.
Horn soloists Alec Frank-Gemmill and Joseph Walters take centre stage in Handel's Concerto for French Horns, exemplifying the extraordinary vogue for horn music at this time. Timpanist Alan Emslie joins them for Barsanti's Concerti grossi Op. 3, an unusual concertino comprising timpani and natural horns.
Barsanti's four 'Old Scots Tunes', notable as one of the first examples of Scottish Traditional music to be faithfully transcribed, introduces fiddle player Colin Scobie. Completing the programme is Handel's aria 'Sta nell'Ircana' from Alcina, featuring mezzo-soprano Emilie Renard, and the March for
Wind Band, HWV 346.
"Peter Whelan and his terrific Ensemble Marsyas reconstruct a typical society concert and it's a rich insight, played with great style and charisma." The Guardian
"In the expert hands of Ensemble Marsyas and their horn players Alec Frank-Gemmill and Joseph Walters, [the Barsanti concerti] turn out to be works of enormous joy and spirit. Their sound world will be familiar to many from Handel Water Music, [though] the chortling energy Barsanti conjures in his allegros has an abandonment that might have been a bit too boisterous for a royal river party." Gramophone Awards Issue - Editor's Choice
"Under the incisive direction of Peter Whelan, the group is on ebullient form as it explores the vogue for the French horn in Scotland…Barsanti emerges as a worthy rival to Handel's festive verve…Renard's fiery performance of Handel's aria 'Sta nell'Ircana' from Alcina completes an assured disc of horn-infused Baroque finery" BBC Music
Tracks:
Francesco Barsanti
Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 3 No. 3
1. Sostenuto, 2. Allegro, 3. Largo, 4. Menuet
Concerto grosso in F major, Op. 3 No. 2
5. Andante ma non tanto, 6. Allegro, 7. Adagio,
8. Menuet
Concerto grosso in F major, Op. 3 No. 1
9. Allegro, 10. Largo, 11. Allegro, 12. Menuet
George Frideric Handel
13. Sta nell'Ircana pietrosa tana (from Alcina, HWV 34)
Concerto for French horns in F major, HWV 331
14. [Allegro], 15. Alla Hornpipe
16. March in F major 'March in Ptolemy', HWV 346
Barsanti
A Collection of Old Scots Tunes
17. Lochaber, 18. Busk ye, 19. The birks of Invermay,
20. Logan Water
Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 3 No. 4
21. Allegro 22. Adagio, 23. Menuet
Concerto grosso in D major, Op. 3 No. 5
24. Andante largo, 25. Adagio, 26. Andante allegro,
27. Menuet
