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Record LabelErato, EAO

UPC5054197452536

eBay Product ID (ePID)14059359834

Product Key Features

FormatRecord

Release Year2023

GenreClassical

ArtistGardiner, John Eliot

Release TitleHandel: Water Music

Dimensions

Item Height0.18 in

Item Weight0.62 lb

Item Length12.40 in

Item Width12.36 in

Additional Product Features

Number of Tracks21

Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States

Tracks1.1 Water Music Variants, HWV 331: No. 1 in F Major 1.2 Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: I. Overture 1.3 Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: II. Adagio E Staccato 1.4 Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: III. (A) Allegro 1.5 Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: III. (B) Andante 1.6 Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: IV. Minuet 1.7 Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: V. Passepied 1.8 Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: VI. Air 1.9 Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: VII. Minuet 1.10 Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: VIII. Bourrée - IX. Hornpipe 1.11 Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: X. Allegro 1.12 Water Music Variants, HWV 331: No. 2 in F Major, Alla Hornpipe 1.13 Water Music, Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350: I. (Minuet) 1.14 Water Music, Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350: II. Rigaudons I ; II 1.15 Water Music, Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350: III. Minuets I ; II 1.16 Water Music, Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350: IV. Gigues I ; II 1.17 Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: I. (Allegro) 1.18 Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: II. Alla Hornpipe 1.19 Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: III. Minuet 1.20 Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: IV. Lentement 1.21 Water Music, Suite No. 2 in D Major, HWV 349: V. Bourrée

Number of Discs1

NotesWhen this album was recorded in 1980, the English Baroque Soloists ensemble had only been founded for barely two years. Indeed, John Eliot Gardiner first created the Monteverdi Choir in 1964, then the Monteverdi Orchestra in 1968 which played on modern instruments. In the late 1970s the orchestra transitioned to period instruments and became the English Baroque Soloists. The first concert under the new name was in 1977 at the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music, although the orchestra was not officially formed until 1978. The Water Music Suites is one of English Baroque Soloists' first recordings. The instrumental level is remarkable, Gardiner's aesthetic being already made of accuracy, instrumental perfection, intonation and dynamism - it was a question of breaking down all the prejudgments that could exist on the baroque at that time.