Handel: Royal Fireworks Music; The Water Music [SACD] [SACD]

On this CD:

1. Water Music Suite, No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348 Ouverture
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

2. Water Music Suite, No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348 Adagio e staccato
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

3. Water Music Suite, No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348 Allegro in 3/4
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

4. Water Music Suite, No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348 Air
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

5. Water Music Suite, No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348 Minuet
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

6. Water Music Suite, No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348 Bourée
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

7. Water Music Suite, No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348 Hornpipe
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

8. Water Music Suite, No.1 for orchestra in F major, HWV 348 Andante in D minor
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

9. Water Music Suite, No.2 for orchestra in D major, HWV 349 Allegro
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

10. Water Music Suite, No.2 for orchestra in D major, HWV 349 Bourée
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

11. Water Music Suite, No.2 for orchestra in D major, HWV 349 Alla Hornpipe
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

12. Music for the Royal Fireworks, for orchestra, HWV 351
Composed by George Frideric Handel
Performed by English Chamber Orchestra with Alan Civil, Harold Lester, Derek Wickens, John Wilbraham
Conducted by Johannes Somary

Handel: Royal Fireworks Music; The Water Music [SACD], Music, George Frideric Handel, Johannes Somary, Harold Lester, Alan Civil, Derek Wickens, English Chamber Orchestra, John Wilbraham, Baroque Suite/Partita for Orchestra, Chamber Music & Recitals, Classical, Classical Composers, Orchestral

Handel: Water Music; Music for the Royal Fireworks [SACD]
Average customer rating:

STEREO not multichannel!!!!!!!!!

Pleasant music and nice sound fidelity

A vintage Boulez recording beautifully presented

SACD is stunning

Handel: Water Music; Music for the Royal Fireworks [SACD]

Manufacturer: Sony
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Binding: Audio CD

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Customer Reviews:

STEREO not multichannel!!!!!!!!!.......2005-04-25

I just received my copy of "Water Music ... ", haven't played it yet . I am disappointed. I've got "Bach's 4 Toccatas... and Boulez conducta Bartok " which are 'Multichannel';I've got a number of copies of "Water Music and Royal Fireworks" on Analogue SQ Quad LP and on 2.0 stereo CD.Because it was grouped with "Bach & Bartok" (which I also have on SQ Quad LP),I thought the "enhanced" moniker meant that it was also in 'multichannel'format.So now I have ' another ' two channel copy ,which I realize that I can play through my Dolby Surround rceiver, but it's not the same as Discrete channels.

Edd Kerr , iegolden@shaw.ca

Pleasant music and nice sound fidelity.......2004-02-26

This SACD has good sound. Each note and melody are very pleasant. Make sure you have nice components to play it.

A vintage Boulez recording beautifully presented.......2002-02-12

This is the second of two reissues of recordings by Pierre Boulez and the New York Philharmonic on Sony Classical's current crop of SACD reissues. It presents this new audiophile medium in an excellent light. Based on superb late analogue recordings from Columbia Masterworks, they sound newly minted in these DSD transfers onto SACD. There is excellent frequency reponse and dynamic range, and virtually no tape hiss. As in other Columbia recordings of this era, there is a very clearly articulated stereo image, which is vividly reinforced in the transfer. It is hard to believe that these recordings are more than a quarter century old. It is nice to see them again, especially with the complete "Water Music": the old "Great Performers" LP and French Sony Classical CD in my collection provide only a selection from the three suites. Here you have the complete "Water Music" and "Fireworks" music.

As for the performances, these (as indeed others in the series) are gems from the catalogue. Boulez, the icy and intellectual modernist, is ideally suited to bringing out the brilliance, elegance, and splendid High Baroque polish of these public, celebratory works. He draws playing of an unbelievable refinement from his New York players, making them sound like (say) the Berlin Philharmonic on its best form.

The "Water Music" is one of the best ever recorded, on a par with any of the more recent "authentic" contenders, as is it the "Fireworks" music. In the latter, Boulez eschews the augmented brass and percussion favoured in many recordings, and prefers a more pared down set of orchestral forces, including a harpischord, which is clearly audible tinkling away right from the first bars. This is a nicely "inauthentic" authenticist touch, since surely no one present at the original open air performance could possibly have heard the harpsichord's tiny embellishments even if one were present!

To sum up, this disc is recommended without reservation, both for its musical merits and as an exemplar of the new SACD format.

SACD is stunning.......2001-07-20

I bought this disc at Virgin records. [....] Anyway it's a late analog recording transferred to DSD format. The sound is pure magic. The smoothness of LP, with the stunning dynamics of digital. I hope the SACD format survives, and not go the way Betamax did. Did you know VHS, and Windows are inferior but succeeded by aggressive marketing? So now we all live with 2nd class technology. Buy SACDs to support the format!(Not CD or DVD-A)

Handel: Water Music; Music for the Royal Fireworks [Hybrid SACD]

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Handel: Water Music; Music for the Royal Fireworks [Hybrid SACD]

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ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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