Handel's Eight Great Harpsichord Suites
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HANDEL
Handel's Eight Great Harpsichord Suites
Bridget Cunningham (harpsichord)
[ Signum / CD ]
Release Date: Friday 19 November 2021
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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.
Tracks:
Suite No. 1 in A major, HWV 426
1 I. Prélude [1.53]
2 II. Allemande [3.20]
3 III. Courante [2.54]
4 IV. Gigue [3.17]
Suite No. 2 in F major, HWV 427
5 I. Adagio [2.16]
6 II. Allegro [2.36]
7 III. Adagio [1.20]
8 IV. Allegro [2.33]
Suite No. 3 in D minor, HWV 428
9 I. Prélude [0.57]
10 II. Allegro [2.37]
11 III. Allemande [3.34]
12 IV. Courante [2.15]
13 V. Air and Variations [8.22]
14 VI. Presto [4.28]
Suite No. 4 in E minor, HWV 429
15 I. Allegro [3.46]
16 II. Allemande [2.19]
17 III. Courante [2.23]
18 IV. Sarabande [3.05]
19 V. Gigue [1.44]
Suite No. 5 in E major, HWV 430
20 I. Prélude [2.16]
21 II. Allemande [4.23]
22 III. Courante [2.21]
23 IV. Air and Variations,
"The Harmonious Blacksmith" [4.49]
Suite No. 6 in F sharp minor, HWV 431
