Georg Friedrich Händel: Suites For Keyboard

Editorial Reviews
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Rarely does a recording convey such a feeling of total harmony--performance, sound, and overall ambience. Handel's all-too-infrequently heard suites are genuine masterpieces, brimming with melodic brilliance and irresistible rhythmic energy. The performances likewise are brilliant and irresistible--clear, detailed, stylish, and surprising in their expressive range. Performed with ardent skill on the piano, this is one of the finest Handel recordings ever made. --David Vernier

Tracks:

Suite HWV 452, G Minor: Allemande
Suite HWV 452, G Minor: Courante
Suite HWV 452, G Minor: Sarabande
Suite HWV 452, G Minor: Gigue
Suite HWV 447, D Minor: Allemande
Suite HWV 447, D Minor: Courante
Suite HWV 447, D Minor: Sarabande
Suite HWV 447, D Minor: Gigue
Suites II: No. 7 HWV 440: Allemande
Suites II: No. 7 HWV 440: Courante
Suites II: No. 7 HWV 440: Sarabande
Suites II: No. 7 HWV 440: Gigue
Suites I: No. 8 HWV 433, F Minor: Prelude - Fuga
Suites I: No. 8 HWV 433, F Minor: Allemande
Suites I: No. 8 HWV 433, F Minor: Courante
Suites I: No. 8 HWV 433, F Minor: Gigue
Suites I: No. 2 HWV 427, F Major: Adagio
Suites I: No. 2 HWV 427, F Major: Allegro
Suites I: No. 2 HWV 427, F Major: Adagio
Suites I: No. 2 HWV 427, F Major: Allegro
Suites I: No. 4 HWV 429, E Minor: Fuga
Suites I: No. 4 HWV 429, E Minor: Allemande
Suites I: No. 4 HWV 429, E Minor: Courante
Suites I: No. 4 HWV 429, E Minor: Sarabande
Suites I: No. 4 HWV 429, E Minor: Gigue
Suites I: No.I HWV 426, A Major: Prelude
Suites I: No.I HWV 426, A Major: Allemande
Suites I: No.I HWV 426, A Major: Courante
Suites I: No.I HWV 426, A Major: Gigue

Amazon.com

Rarely does a recording convey such a feeling of total harmony--performance, sound, and overall ambience. Handel's all-too-infrequently heard suites are genuine masterpieces, brimming with melodic brilliance and irresistible rhythmic energy. The performances likewise are brilliant and irresistible--clear, detailed, stylish, and surprising in their expressive range. Performed with ardent skill on the piano, this is one of the finest Handel recordings ever made. --David Vernier

Customer Reviews:

Lovely lessons for keyboard.......2001-07-17

Jarrett surrender to music making reached new dimensions. Here the cheerful lessons by Georg Friedrich receive a most deserved rendition of graceful execution and control. Keith search for authenticity of the musical scores must be praised. The cd has great sound, as expected from an ECM. Quite and enjoyable performance.

stunningly beautiful!.......1999-08-20

This is one of the finest classical recordings I have listened to in years -- Jarrett plays with warmth and sympathy, never flashy, and brings these keyboard suites to life.

beautiful music, beautifully played.......1999-02-06

If I could give more than 5 stars, I would

Georg Friedrich Händel: Suites de Pieces le Clavecin, 1720

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Haendel Re-born

Georg Friedrich Händel: Suites de Pieces le Clavecin, 1720

Manufacturer: Cpo Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Suites | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Classical | Styles | Music

General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00009LW58
Release Date: 2003-06-17

Customer Reviews:

just get it.......2005-07-29

i own many recordings of the Handel suites, and this is THE best i've heard ever. The harpsichord is lovely, and the playing free and imaginative. Makes one think Handels keyboard music need to be totally rerecorded by Remy.

Haendel Re-born.......2004-04-03

Before listening to this recording, I had been just about convinced that Haendel's keyboard music was, at best, harmless, and at worst, disposable. How mistaken I was, and how apt Ludger Remy was to convince me otherwise. These suites, the 8 'Great Suites,' Haendel's major testament to Baroque keyboard music, are played with verve, character, courage, and nuance. Ludger Remy's subtlety is little short of brilliant, although I must say that occasionally he sacrifices grace for excitement, but then again, that harpsichord is a unique animal and occasionally one cannot blame the performer, really.

Best of all, Ludger Remy breaks many of the conventions of the Dutch-dominated school of harpsichord performance and delivers and album defined by character and a unique sense of articulation and rhythm. Each suite movement is intricately crafted and interpreted. The Suites in A-Major and F-Major are both heart-wrenching, while the Suite in g-minor is shown by Remy to finally be playable (I thought that it was near impossible).

Tracks:

Ste No.1 in a: Prld
Ste No.1 in a: Allemande
Ste No.1 in a: Courante
Ste No.1 in a: Gigue
Ste No.2 in F: Adagio
Ste No.2 in F: Allegro
Ste No.2 in F: Adagio
Ste No.2 in F: Allegro
Ste No.3 in d: Prld
Ste No.3 in d: Allegro
Ste No.3 in d: Allemande
Ste No.3 in d: Courante
Ste No.3 in d: Aria Et Cinq Variations
Ste No.3 in d: Presto
Ste No.4 in e: Allegro
Ste No.4 in e: Allemande
Ste No.4 in e: Courante
Ste No.4 in e: Sarabande
Ste No.4 in e: Gigue

Tracks:

Ste No.5 in E: Prld
Ste No.5 in E: Allemande
Ste No.5 in E: Courante
Ste No.5 in E: Air Et Cinq Variations
Ste No.6 in f#: Prld
Ste No.6 in f#: Largo
Ste No.6 in f#: Allegro
Ste No.6 in f#: Gigue. Presto
Ste No.7 in g: Ov
Ste No.7 in g: Andante
Ste No.7 in g: Allegro
Ste No.7 in g: Sarabande
Ste No.7 in g: Gigue
Ste No.7 in g: Passacaille
Ste No.8 in f: Prld
Ste No.8 in f: Allegro
Ste No.8 in f: Allemande
Ste No.8 in f: Courante
Ste No.8 in f: Gigue

Amazon.com

As a composer of keyboard music, Handel is known today for a single piece, a theme and variations nicknamed The Harmonious Blacksmith which appears as the finale to the Fifth Suite. This first-rate set includes all eight harpsichord suites which Handel published in 1720, and it proves that there's more to Handel's keyboard music than that one single work, delightful though it certainly is. As his recordings of Bach and Couperin for Harmonia Mundi amply prove, there is no finer Baroque harpsichord player alive today than Kenneth Gilbert, and he attacks this music with such enthusiasm and relish that you'll be amazed it's so little known today. Pure fun. --David Hurwitz

Customer Reviews:

Go for this cult CD without reserves! .......2005-04-02

Kenneth Gilbert made an excellent performance about these practically unknown Handel 's suites.

With refinement, serene eloquence, nuance and aristocratic charm, Gilbert goes to the musical nucleus of every piece and literally extracts all its virtues.

Go for this recording and enjoy it always.

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