Handel - Concerto Grosso in B Flat Major HWV312
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- Опубліковано 28 лип 2024
- GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL (1685-1759)
Concerto grosso for two oboes, violin, two recorders, two bassoons, strings and basso continuo in B flat major Op. 3 No. 1 HWV 312
1. Allegro
2. Largo
3. Allegro
Performed by Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
Directed by Jan Willem de Vriend
Painting entitled "London: the Old Horse Guards and Banqueting Hall, from St James's Park" by Canaletto (1749)
This recording is exquisite!
Yes, I agree that this is a marvellous opus, the Saxon at his best. When Handel set his mind to write instrumental music in the Italian style, he was unsurpassable. Such beauty, elegance, verve, great sequences. German texture marries Venetian charm in a delicious ceremony.
Also to me it remembers Benedetto Marcello and the Italian style of the concerto grosso. Beautiful !!!!
Beautiful music. I could hear some Jean-Baptiste Lully Influence in this wonderful music.
Very nice. I love Handel!
Endnu et dejligt lille stykke smukt musikstykke....
absolutely I agree with you! Thanks.
@HARMONICO101 Vivaldi died in Vienna in 1741, whence he had gone in yet another fruitless search as an old man for a suitable post. Several of Vivaldi's late works were composed specifically for Vienna and the Imperial Court. Some earlier works (as you probably know) were composed with the Saxon court of Dresden in mind, although I don't believe Vivaldi ever visited there personally. Clearly, though, the German-speaking world was very much on his mind, throughout much of his life.
My top 5 Baroque are...
Handel/Telemann (equals)
Corelli/ D. Scarlatti
Bach
our ancestors had class
All of them
I don't disagree that their performance is very pleasing, in a historically informed way as well as simply musically; what I thought could have made everything sound so much better - to my biased ears - are the rawness of gut strings, the muted colours of woodwind of real wood.