Haendel, Georg Friedrich - Duetto VII from Tanti strali al sen for Double Reed & Strings HWV 197 Double-anche & Cordes |
Compositeur : | Haendel, Georg Friedrich (1685 - 1759) | ||||
Instrumentation : | Double-anche & Cordes | ||||
Genre : | Baroque | ||||
Arrangeur : Editeur : | MAGATAGAN, MICHAEL (1960 - ) | ||||
Droit d'auteur : | Public Domain | ||||
Ajoutée par magataganm, 19 Janv 2018 Most music lovers have encountered George Frederick Handel through holiday-time renditions of the Messiah's "Hallelujah" chorus. And many of them know and love that oratorio on Christ's life, death, and resurrection, as well as a few other greatest hits like the orchestral Water Music and Royal Fireworks Music, and perhaps Judas Maccabeus or one of the other English oratorios. Yet his operas, for which he was widely known in his own time, are the province mainly of specialists in Baroque music, and the events of his life, even though they reflected some of the most important musical issues of the day, have never become as familiar as the careers of Bach or Mozart. Perhaps the single word that best describes his life and music is "cosmopolitan": he was a German composer, trained in Italy, who spent most of his life in England The six chamber duets for soprano and alto selected for this volume were written in 1710–12 in Hanover (HWV 178, 185, 197) and 1740–45 in London (HWV 181, 190, 186). They are musically demanding and structured contrapuntally: the earlier works are stricter, more scholarly and more elaborate in terms of counterpoint but masterly in their craftsmanship. The later ones are composed somewhat freer, but more compact. Although originally composed for voice duet and keyboard, I created this interpretation of the Duetto VII (HWV 197) for Double-Reed (Oboe & English Horn) & Strings (2 Violins, Viola & Cello). Partition centrale : | Tanti strali al sen mi scocchi (3 partitions) | |