Handel's 8 Great Harps... - Bridget Cunningham - Audio CD (Arrives in 50 days)

Handel's 8 Great Harpsichord Suites is an album by Bridget Cunningham, released in 2022. The album is a classical 2-CD.

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.

Tracklist

Disc 1

1. Harpsichord Suite No. 1 In a Major, Hwv 426 - I. Prelude
2. Harpsichord Suite No. 1 In a Major, Hwv 426 - Ii. Allemande
3. Harpsichord Suite No. 1 In a Major, Hwv 426 - Iii. Courante
4. Harpsichord Suite No. 1 In a Major, Hwv 426 - Iv. Gigue
5. Harpsichord Suite No. 2 In F Major, Hwv 427 - I. Adagio
6. Harpsichord Suite No. 2 In F Major, Hwv 427 - Ii. Allegro
7. Harpsichord Suite No. 2 In F Major, Hwv 427 - Iii. Adagio
8. Harpsichord Suite No. 2 In F Major, Hwv 427 - Iv. Allegro
9. Harpsichord Suite No. 3 In D Minor, Hwv 428 - I. Prelude
10. Harpsichord Suite No. 3 In D Minor, Hwv 428 - Ii. Allegro
11. Harpsichord Suite No. 3 In D Minor, Hwv 428 - Iii. Allemande
12. Harpsichord Suite No. 3 In D Minor, Hwv 428 - Iv. Courante
13. Harpsichord Suite No. 3 In D Minor, Hwv 428 - V. Air and Var
14. Harpsichord Suite No. 3 In D Minor, Hwv 428 - Vi. Presto
15. Harpsichord Suite No. 4 In E Minor, Hwv 429 - I. Allegro
16. Harpsichord Suite No. 4 In E Minor, Hwv 429 - Ii. Allemande
17. Harpsichord Suite No. 4 In E Minor, Hwv 429 - Iii. Courante
18. Harpsichord Suite No. 4 In E Minor, Hwv 429 - Iv. Sarabande
19. Harpsichord Suite No. 4 In E Minor, Hwv 429 - V. Gigue
20. Harpsichord Suite No. 5 In E Major, Hwv 430 - I. Prelude
21. Harpsichord Suite No. 5 In E Major, Hwv 430 - Ii. Allemande
22. Harpsichord Suite No. 5 In E Major, Hwv 430 - Iii. Courante
23. Harpsichord Suite No. 5 In E Major, Hwv 430 - Iv. Air and Va
24. Harpsichord Suite No. 6 In F-Sharp Minor, Hwv 431 - I. Prelu
25. Harpsichord Suite No. 6 In F-Sharp Minor, Hwv 431 - Ii. Larg
26. Harpsichord Suite No. 6 In F-Sharp Minor, Hwv 431 - Iii. All
27. Harpsichord Suite No. 6 In F-Sharp Minor, Hwv 431 - Iv. Gigu

Disc 2

1. Harpsichord Suite No. 7 In G Minor, Hwv 432 - I. Overture
2. Harpsichord Suite No. 7 In G Minor, Hwv 432 - Ii. Andante
3. Harpsichord Suite No. 7 In G Minor, Hwv 432 - Iii. Allegro
4. Harpsichord Suite No. 7 In G Minor, Hwv 432 - Iv. Sarabande
5. Harpsichord Suite No. 7 In G Minor, Hwv 432 - V. Gigue
6. Harpsichord Suite No. 7 In G Minor, Hwv 432 - Vi. Passacaill
7. Harpsichord Suite No. 8 In F Minor, Hwv 433 - I. Prelude
8. Harpsichord Suite No. 8 In F Minor, Hwv 433 - Ii. Allegro
9. Harpsichord Suite No. 8 In F Minor, Hwv 433 - Iii. Allemande
10. Harpsichord Suite No. 8 In F Minor, Hwv 433 - Iv. Courante
11. Harpsichord Suite No. 8 In F Minor, Hwv 433 - V. Gigue
12. Muzio Scevola, Hwv 13 - Ouverture (Arranged For Harpsichord)
13. Keyboard Arrangements of Arias From Italian Operas, Hwv 482
14. Keyboard Arrangements of Arias From Italian Operas, Hwv 482
15. Keyboard Arrangements of Arias From Italian Operas, Hwv 482
16. Keyboard Arrangements of Overtures From Italian Operas
17. Keyboard Arrangements of Arias From Italian Operas, Hwv 482
18. Chaconne In G Major (Version V), Hwv 435

Label: Signum Classics | Origin: Holland

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