Handel - Concerti grossi, Op. 3, Sonata a 5 (2007), Academy of Ancient Music, dir. Richard Egarr; Harmonia Mundi HMU 907415
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Ancient Music, Richard Egarr - Handel - Concerti grossi, Op. 3, Sonata a 5
Артист: Ancient Music, Richard Egarr
Альбом: Handel - Concerti grossi, Op. 3, Sonata a 5, 2007
Издатель: Harmonia Mundi / HMU 907415
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As Richard Egarr points out in his very intelligent notes to this terrific release (in what promises to be a new Handel cycle with the AAM), the Op. 3 Concerti grossi tend to get dismissed as compared with their larger Op. 6 brethren. But that doesn't mean that Handel didn't lavish great care on their composition (or assembly), and the fact that they consist mostly of arrangements or borrowings, as we all know, means nothing where Handel is concerned as a measure of quality. One of the nicest things about these performances is that Egarr makes no effort to homogenize what remains a wildly varied selection of movement types and formal structures. Just the opposite: he presents this music as a riot of color and individualized character.

Here are some of the highlights: Egarr offers the solo flute version of the Third Concerto rather than the more standard alternative for oboe, an excellent choice that both sets off this particular work and provides a welcome contrasting timbre if you are listening continuously. The French Overture opening of Concerto No. 4 really captures that wonderful sense of ceremony that Handel managed better than just about anyone else. Egarr also offers a delightful organ improvisation as the central movement of the Sixth Concerto (surely something belongs between the two that Handel actually wrote), and throughout the set he varies the continuo extremely effectively, nowhere more so than in the strikingly sensual Largo of the Second Concerto. The lively Sonata a 5, from Handel's early days in Italy, makes a fine bonus, and the whole production is superbly engineered and presented with Harmonia Mundi's usual care for every detail of production. It doesn't get any better.

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   Posted: 04-10-2011, 18:44 (post 2, #1031328)

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Мы конечно не верим... :diablo:
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Так это я не для тебя, а для тех кто верит :diablo:

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