HANDEL Water Music, Fireworks Music / John Eliot Gardiner

Georg Friedrich HANDEL

Water Music, Fireworks Music

English Baroque Soloists (on period instruments)

Sir John Eliot Gardiner – conductor

Music For The Royal Fireworks – Suite HWV 351 (15:56)

1 Ouverture 7:29
2 Bourrée 1:03
3 Le Paix 3:16
4 Le Rejouissance 2:05
5 Menuet I-II 2:03

Water Music Suite No. 1 – Suite HWV 348 (25:37)

6 Ouverture [Grave Allegro] 3:11
7 Adagio E Staccato 1:58
8 A. Allegro 2:26
9 B. Andante 2:23
10 C. [Da Capo] 2:28
11 Presto 2:28
12 Air 2:49
13 Menuet 2:10
14 Bourrée – Hornpipe 2:19
15 [Da Capo] 3:25

Water Music Suite No. 3 – Suite HWV 350 (10:13)

16 [Without Indication] 2:36
17 Rigaudon
18 [Without Indication] 3:12
19 Menuet
20 [Without Indication] 3:11
21 [Without Indication]
22 [Without Indication] 1:04

Water Music Suite No. 2 – Suite HWV 349 (10:03)

23 Allegro 1:59
24 Alla Hornpipe 3:59
25 Minuet 0:52
26 Lentement 1:33
27 Bourrée 1:10

Recording: 11-14 February 1991 (tracks 6 to 27), 14-16 June 1983 (tracks 1-5), London

Label: Decca – 478 3357
Series: Virtuoso
0028947833574